Nicole Pinelli Reitter, Pharm.D.
Executive Director for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, Office of the Provost
Director of AHEC and Health System Experiential Partnerships, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Associate Professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
PHONE(919) 962-1641
nickipinelli@unc.edu
ADDRESS
UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, 115 I Beard Hall, CB# 7574, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7574
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Nicole Pinelli Reitter, Pharm.D., is Executive Director for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice within the Provost’s Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice. She also serves as Director of AHEC and Health System Experiential Partnerships and as an associate professor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Reitter received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Wayne State University in 2007. She completed a two-year Health Disparities Research/Diabetes Fellowship at Wayne State University and a master of science in clinical research design and statistical analysis from the University of Michigan. She became a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) in 2009 and served at Wayne State University from 2009-2012 as a clinical assistant professor and as a pharmacy clinical specialist in ambulatory care at Henry Ford Hospital.
Reitter joined the School in 2012 as an assistant professor and as a pharmacy clinical specialist in outcomes research at UNC Medical Center. During her time at UNC Medical Center, she led implementation and assessment of broad-scale layered learning practice models, immersion programs integrating first through third professional year student pharmacists in the delivery of direct patient care, and the “flipped” model of residency research. Reitter previously served as Assistant Dean of Experiential Programs, a role in which she re-envisioned, implemented, sustained and assessed a new clinical education learning model for the PharmD curriculum. She also previously served as Associate Dean of Experiential Programs and Interprofessional Affairs where she was responsible for overseeing administration of the experiential education program for the PharmD curriculum, preceptor and practice site development, interprofessional education and practice initiatives, student advising and support services for students in the experiential education environment, and career services for professional students.
In 2024, Reitter was named Executive Director for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice within the Provost’s Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice and Director of AHEC and Health System Experiential Partnerships at the School. In this role, she is responsible for expanding interprofessional practice in North Carolina and working with practice sites across the state to build more intentional inteprofessional experiential education infrastructure to enhance and support learning experiences across UNC. Reitter is also continuing to build and strengthen strategic health system partnerships with external constituents for delivery of the PharmD program and serving as the School’s liaison to the NC AHEC program.
Reitter is a recipient of the ASHP Best Practices Award in Health System Pharmacy (2014 and 2018), the AACP Award for Excellence in Experiential Education (2019 and 2021), the AACP Award for Excellence in Assessment (2022), and the AACP Award for Excellence in Scholarship of Experiential Education (2022). She is also a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.