Category: Staff
Brad Wingo Receives Inaugural Phyllis Smith Staff Award for Excellence
January 20, 2014Brad Wingo, MEd, is the recipient of the first Phyllis Smith Staff Award for Excellence given by the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Wingo is the School’s director of student affairs. Wingo came to the School in 2011 from North Carolina State University. There he directed the Student Success and Advising Center and coordinated advising for the College of Education from 2008 to 2011. Prior to that, he was the director of Student Support Center at North Carolina Wesleyan College for five years. The award recognizes a staff member who is committed to the School’s pursuit of excellence through its … Read more
Office of Assessment Expands to Encompass Strategic Planning
January 30, 2012The role of the Office of Assessment at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has been expanded to encompass the School’s new strategic-planning and ongoing institutional assessment efforts. Mary Roth McClurg, PharmD, MHS, will continue to direct the School’s new Office of Strategic Planning and Assessment. As director, Roth will now report to Vice Dean Russ Mumper, PhD, to reflect the broader role of the new office. Roth is an associate professor in the School’s Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy. “Dr. Roth and her office have played a pivotal role in the development of the School’s new strategic plan. … Read more
Whitley Donates Portrait to Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum
December 12, 2011A unique holiday present was presented to the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum in Sedalia during its Annual Christmas Open House on December 11. Artist Jason Whitley, creative lead for instructional innovation at the School, donated a portrait of the museum’s namesake that he originally created for the Charlotte Observer for use in an African American history supplement in 2005. The newspaper granted Whitley permission to donate the portrait. Charlotte Hawkins Brown founded the nationally renowned Palmer Institute in 1902 as a preparatory school for African American youth. The museum links Brown and the Palmer Memorial Institute to the themes of … Read more
Davidson to Lead Educational Technology Development at School
July 26, 2011Chris Davidson has been named as the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s new director of educational technology research and development. In his new role, Davidson will work closely with faculty and ITS Teaching and Learning to foster the creation, development, and integration of a host of multimedia educational offerings into the professional and graduation programs in the School. His work will play a key role in the implementation of the educational renaissance initiative that was incorporated into the School’s strategic plan in 2007. The goal of the Educational Renaissance Initiative is to transform the educational process to prepare professional and … Read more
UNC Employee Forum Honors Middleton, Smith
January 26, 2009Geri Middleton and Phyllis Smith, employees at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, have received awards from the UNC-Chapel Hill Employee Forum recognizing their service to the School. Middleton, who received the Rookie Award, is the Pharmaceutical Care Labs assistant. Here’s part of what PCL Director Kelly Scolaro, who nominated Middleton for the award, said about her contributions: She jumped right in and has made a huge difference for the faculty, teaching assistants, and students in the Pharmaceutical Care Labs. She is organized and efficient and helps the labs run smoothly. She helps with schedules, orders supplies for labs, helps with … Read more
Long to Lead IPIT’s Pharmacoinformatics Facility
August 27, 2008The UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy has named Kevin Long as the director of its pharmacoinformatics facility. The new pharmacoinformatics facility, which is based in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been created to develop resources for assessing drug-gene relationships, performing computational pharmacology analysis and providing IT platforms for pharmacogenomics studies. As the director, Long will provide overall strategic leadership and management in planning and directing applications development and also design and implement physical databases. Long received his bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering technology at the DeVry Institute of Technology and has more than 15 years of … Read more
Hoskins to Direct UNC Genomics Facility
January 15, 2008The UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, a research center within the UNC School of Pharmacy, recently named Janelle M. Hoskins as the director of its new Molecular Genomics Facility. This facility provides project design, data analysis, technology selection, and genotyping for IPIT investigators. A native of Australia, Hoskins received her PhD in pharmacology at the University of Sydney and postdoctoral training at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and at UNC-Chapel Hill. Hoskins is an expert in the pharmacogenetics of metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters with more than twenty scientific papers published in international peer-reviewed journals … Read more