Category: News
Ph.D. candidate Rachel Parry aims to improve health care for women, receives grant award to support research
October 15, 2021Fourth-year Ph.D. candidate Rachel Parry, Pharm.D., recently received an R36 dissertation award from The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to support her dissertation that aims to improve gynecologic care. The $42,210 award will support her research, “Bimanual pelvic examinations: temporal trends and imposed barriers to self-administered contraception use,” for one year. Parry, who studies in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, said bimanual pelvic examinations (when a provider manually palpates or feels some of the internal pelvic organs) have been a standard component of preventive medical care for people with female reproductive organs … Read more
Vaccination slows antimicrobial resistance
October 13, 2021A new computer model demonstrates that vaccinations have impacts well beyond just preventing disease and death: they can also slow the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Story by Tracey Peake of NC State University Pneumococcal diseases – which include illnesses ranging from inner ear infections to pneumonia and meningitis – are a leading cause of death globally among children under five. While there are effective vaccines against pneumococcal diseases, access is still a challenge for populations in low-income – and some middle income – countries. And antimicrobial resistance to the antibiotics commonly used to treat these infections is a growing problem. … Read more
School’s Office of Experiential Programs receives national recognition from American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
October 8, 2021The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Office of Experiential Programs recently received the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s (AACP) Award of Excellence in Experiential Education. The national award is presented annually to one deserving individual or group of individuals for their outstanding contribution to the world of experiential education. Due to the challenging events surrounding 2020, the Experiential Education Section Awards Committee, with support from AACP, decided to recognize all members of Experiential Education Departments at each pharmacy institution for their tremendous efforts in keeping programs operational despite pandemic-related challenges. “The efforts to alter experiential curricula, identify alternate rotations, … Read more
Meet master’s degree student Alex Hayes-Porter
October 6, 2021At the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, our online and residential master’s degree programs prepare future health care leaders to manage highly complex and multi-faceted pharmacy enterprise operations. Here, we chat with Alex Hayes-Porter, Pharm.D., a current student in the School’s residential master’s program (Class of ’22). Q: Alex, what is your current role? A: I am a Post Graduate Year 2 Health System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Resident at St. Joseph’s Hospital – BayCare Health System in Tampa, Florida. Q: What made you want to apply to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy master’s program? A: The MS program … Read more
Search for antivirals, COVID-19 treatments boosted by SAS partnership with READDI
October 1, 2021SAS, a leader in analytics and software services, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are teaming up to transform the drug development process to prevent infectious disease threats from turning into a pandemic like COVID-19. The partnership is focused on the work of the University’s Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative (READDI) — founded by the Gillings School of Global Public Health, Eshelman School of Pharmacy and UNC School of Medicine — which is developing broad spectrum antiviral drugs to have on the shelf to prevent future pandemics To advance their work, SAS research and development teams are applying advanced machine learning techniques to integrate multiple biological … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill Launches State-of-the-Art CRISPR Screening Facility
September 29, 2021The new facility, set to come online October 2021, is part of a cross-campus collaboration In 2012, a revolutionary new way to edit genes was unveiled to the world – CRISPR. Since then, the technology has been named as a “Breakthrough of the Year” by Science and has expanded to be applied to targeted epigenome editing. Now, this exciting technology is coming to UNC-Chapel Hill to enable rapid whole genome screening for new drug targets in the CRISPR Screening Facility. The state-of-the-art facility positions UNC to become a leader in academic CRISPR screening. The facility will be opening its doors … Read more
Today is World Pharmacists Day
September 25, 2021Story by the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Office of Global Engagement Today marks the 11th annual World Pharmacists Day – a day celebrating pharmacists around the world with the theme Pharmacy: Always trusted for your health. With this year’s theme in mind, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy would like to recognize and thank all of our partners, at home and around the world, as they work to earn the trust of patients by delivering high quality healthcare and education in the communities they serve. The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s strategic plan, BEYOND, highlights our commitment to serving … Read more
Tab and Denise Waldrop Endowed Scholarship supports students of active-duty military parents
September 20, 2021Tab and Denise Waldrop both grew up with fathers in the United States military. Tab’s dad was a combat engineer who served in the Army during World War II and Denise’s dad was a career Marine stationed at Cherry Point and New River Marine Corps Air Stations on the coast of North Carolina. Through their own lived experiences, the couple understands the sacrifices military families make, both financially and emotionally, for their children. That’s why they’ve established the Tab and Denise Waldrop Endowed Scholarship at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy to support pharmacy students whose parents are active duty … Read more
Eshelman Institute for Innovation announces recipients of 2021 grant cycle, will expand grant opportunities to all UNC faculty, staff
September 17, 2021The Eshelman Institute for Innovation is pleased to announce the recipients of their 2021 grant cycle! A total of $2.1 million has been granted to the below seven projects. Since 2015, the Eshelman Institute has brought value to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by supporting impactful work in the health sciences. In this time, the Institute has awarded more than $28 million in funding to 148 projects, assisted with 28 patent applications, 26 licensed technologies, and helped spin out 13 startup companies. (View the Institute’s 2020 Impact Report.) This year, the Institute is thrilled to announce they … Read more
David Steeb, Pharm.D, MPH, promoted to associate professor in Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education
September 15, 2021David Steeb, Pharm.D., M.P.H., has been promoted to associate professor in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education (PACE), effective July 1. “I’m honored to receive this promotion and want to thank all of my collaborators and mentors who helped get me here. I look forward to further advancing global health education and training both locally and globally.” Steeb said. Steeb also serves as the School’s director of global engagement and adjunct senior lecturer at Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Melbourne, Australia. He received his Bachelor of Science in chemistry … Read more