Faculty and Staff

(919) 843-2583

hanksoru@email.unc.edu

After receiving her Pharm.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Heidi Anksorus completed a PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in South Bend, Indiana. Upon completion of the residency, she was offered a position with St. Joseph, where she continued developing as a new practitioner while working in various areas of the medical center’s inpatient and clinical pharmacy services, as well as working in the community pharmacy practice setting.

(919) 966-9978

carriebm@email.unc.edu

Carrie Martin Blanchard, PharmD, MPH joined the Center for Medication Optimization in May 2018 as a research assistant professor and lead of education and research development. She holds her Masters of Public Health in Health Policy and Management from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She subsequently completed a two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Implementation Science at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in partnership with the National Implementation Research Network. Her research interests focus on how to implement and scale medication optimization services and value-based care models.

(919) 966-9990

wendy_cox@unc.edu

Wendy Cox, PharmD, is associate dean for professional education and a clinical associate professor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cox received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. After graduation, she completed a pharmacy practice residency at the Medical University of South Carolina and a primary care specialty residency affiliated with Campbell University at Kaiser Permanente in Cary, NC, and the Southern Regional Area Health Education Center in Fayetteville, NC.

amcc@email.unc.edu

(919) 962-7515

jceaster@email.unc.edu

Jon Easter joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in January 2016 as the director of the Center for Medication Optimization and a professor of the practice. The center, which is embedded within the Practice Advancement and Clinical Education Division, seeks to solidify the role of pharmacy practice within new, value based healthcare payment and care delivery models by building a hub to support internal and external collaboration, research and education.

(919) 962-0071

seckel@unc.edu

Stephen Eckel, Pharm.D., M.H.A., is associate dean for global engagement and a associate professor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education. He leads a two-year Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences with a specialization in health-system pharmacy administration. This degree is hosted at eight hospitals, five of which are in North Carolina and others are located in 3 other states. At UNC Medical Center, he is director of pharmacy for innovation services, where he is residency program director for the 2-year health system pharmacy administration and leadership residency program. He has worked with almost 200 residents over the years.

(919) 843-9765

stefanie_ferreri@unc.edu

Stefanie Ferreri, Pharm.D., is the Henry L. Smith and James L. Olsen, PhD Distinguished Professor in Pharmacy Practice and Chair of the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Her main research interests include advancing clinical practice in the community-pharmacy setting. Through her research, she hopes to change the way community practice is portrayed and delivered to the population of the United States while influencing reimbursement strategies that affect health policy. Her other interests include nonprescription therapeutics, medication therapy management, the pharmacists’ process of patient care and postgraduate training.

(984) 974-1708

Kathryn.Fuller@unchealth.unc.edu

Kathryn Fuller received her Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Miami and Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She later completed an Academic Fellowship in Educational Innovation at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy where she helped design several course series and the first-year capstone. Fuller then completed a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at UNC Health. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and practices in the transitions of care clinic at UNC Family Medicine.

suzanne_harris@unc.edu

Suzanne Harris is an assistant professor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education and the Director of Well-being and Resiliency at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She also serves as a board-certified clinical pharmacy practitioner in psychiatry at UNC Medical Center, where she is involved with psychiatric medication management for patients with psychosomatic disorders and serves as a preceptor for pharmacy students and residents.

(762) 233-1763

hubal@email.unc.edu

Robert Hubal has general interest in the intelligent use of technology to better train and assess knowledge and skills. He is active in projects involving areas such as adaptive learning, linguistic analysis, behavior modeling, and machine learning. He has past experience developing embodied conversational agents for interaction skills training and situated assessment; conducting cost-effectiveness studies of simulation training systems; conducting expertise, linguistic codability, and mental modeling studies; investigating adaptive intelligent tutoring; implementing patterns of life into the portrayal of activity within game-based environments; and investigating visual analytics and representation.

(919) 843-2279

Timothy_Ives@med.unc.edu

Timothy J. Ives, Pharm.D., M.P.H., is Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his baccalaureate and doctoral degrees in pharmacy at the University of Florida, a Master of Public Health in health policy and administration, and a fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to Carolina, he was a member of the faculties of the University of Utah and the Medical University of South Carolina. Ives is a licensed pharmacist and clinical pharmacist practitioner in North Carolina.  He is a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, as well as the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

(828) 250-3956

skiser92@email.unc.edu

Stephanie Kiser became a lieutenant JG in 1992, commissioned with the U.S. Public Health Service, serving two years with Indian Health Services in Cherokee, North Carolina.

(919) 966-9597

melanie.livet@unc.edu

Melanie Livet, Ph.D., is an applied researcher, with specialized expertise in implementation science, technology validation, and program evaluation. Dr. Livet joined the Center for Medication Optimization (CMO) at the UNC Eshelman School Pharmacy in September 2016 as a Research Assistant Professor and Implementation Scientist. She contributes to advancing the field of pharmacy through integration and tailoring of implementation science best practices and applied research methodologies to pharmacy practice.

(919) 843-9929

macary_marciniak@unc.edu

Macary Marciniak is an Associate Professor in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). She is committed to advancing pharmacist-provided care in community-based settings. She serves as the Director of the PGY1 Community-based Pharmacy Residency Program, which includes innovative practice sites across the state and is one of the oldest and largest programs of its kind in the nation. She also directs two community-based fellowship programs – a Community-based Practice Development Fellowship, in partnership with Rx Clinic Pharmacy, and a Community-based Mental Health Fellowship, in partnership with UNC Campus Health and Counseling and Psychological Services. During her tenure at UNC, she has had the distinct pleasure to mentor and precept over 110 community-based residents and fellows.

(919) 843-8083

mroth@unc.edu

Mary Roth McClurg, Pharm.D., MHS, is Professor and Executive Vice Dean-Chief Academic Officer at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Roth McClurg practiced for 12 years as a clinical pharmacist in primary care practice within the VA Health System and in the interdisciplinary geriatric clinic within the Department of Geriatrics at UNC Healthcare, providing direct patient care as part of an interprofessional care team. Roth McClurg has focused her research efforts on advancing comprehensive medication management and the role of the clinical pharmacist as an integral member of the primary care team, with the goal of optimizing medication use and improving care in patients with multiple chronic diseases. Roth McClurg is a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

(919) 966-4557

jacqui_mclaughlin@unc.edu

Jacqui McLaughlin, Ph.D., received her undergraduate degree in biological engineering from North Carolina State University, her master of science in biomedical engineering from the University of Memphis/University of Tennessee, and her doctorate in educational research and policy analysis from North Carolina State University. She spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow with the Office of Strategic Planning and Assessment (OSPA) at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and currently serves the school as an associate professor in the division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education and as the director of CIPhER (Center for Innovative Pharmacy Education and Research). Dr. McLaughlin has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles about higher education, is on the editorial board for the journals Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning and Education in the Health Professions, and serves as associate editor for BMC Medical Education. Her published research spans a wide range of education topics, including admissions, flipped classrooms, experiential education, student organizations, diversity, graduate training, cognitive apprenticeship, and design thinking.

(919) 966-9124

morbitze@email.unc.edu

Kathryn Morbitzer, Pharm.D., M.S., is an assistant professor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education and Assistant Director in CIPhER at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at Wayne State University and her Master’s in biomedical and health informatics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also completed a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at the Medical University of South Carolina and an academic research fellowship at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Currently, herprimary scholarship area is to engage in educational evaluation and research that improves health care and advances the profession of pharmacy through the development and evaluation of curricular pathways.

(919) 966-2626

ozawa@unc.edu

Sachiko Ozawa, Ph.D., M.H.S., is a health economist whose work focuses on generating evidence that can be used to improve the health of populations globally. Her research focuses on examining the value of vaccines, assessing the economic burden of diseases and examining the demand and utilization of health care. She is interested in the interface between pharmacy and public health from the perspective of a global health economist.

(919) 962-1641

nickipinelli@unc.edu

Nicole Pinelli Reitter, Pharm.D., is Assistant Dean of Experiential Programs and an associate professor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

(919) 966-7318

drhoney@unc.edu

Denise H. Rhoney, Pharm.D., is the Ron and Nancy McFarlane Distinguished Professor.

(919) 966-1705

prodgers@unc.edu

Philip Rodgers, Pharm.D., is a clinical associate professor and serves as the Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. He coordinates several courses in the School, including Integrated Pharmacotherapy 2 (PHCY 732), and the Patient Care Experience 2 (PHCY 718), as well as teaching in other courses such as Patient Care Experience 1, Pharmacotherapy Foundations, and Integrated Pharmacotherapy 1. He also serves as a faculty advisor for the Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students (CAPS) and to Kappa Psi Professional Pharmacy Fraternity. Rodgers received his Bachelor of Science in pharmacy and his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After earning his Pharm.D., he completed a pharmacy residency in ambulatory care at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond, Virginia. His areas of scholarship and teaching are interprofessional education and collaboration, innovative educational approaches, primary care, and diabetes management. Rodgers has been named a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

(919) 843-5119

kasand@email.unc.edu

Kimberly Sanders, Pharm.D., is an assistant professor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She also has a shared appointment as an assistant professor at the UNC Adams School of Dentistry. Sanders earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Purdue University. She completed a one-year pharmacy practice residency at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center as well as a two-year academic postdoctoral research fellowship in pharmacy practice model advancement at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She is a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist and a member of numerous pharmacy professional organizations.

(828) 250-3903

asavage@unc.edu

After receiving her Pharm.D. from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in 2003, Amanda Savage spent the first 13 years of her career as a community practice pharmacist in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. She joined the School of Pharmacy as a part-time clinical instructor based on the Asheville campus in May 2014. In May 2015 she joined the faculty full-time. As a clinical assistant professor, her efforts have been focused on teaching within the patient care skills laboratory courses. Her interest includes course coordination and development, objective structured clinical exams (OSCEs), and small group facilitation. She is a faculty fellow in the Center for Innovative Pharmacy Education & Research (CIPhER).

mollies@email.unc.edu

Mollie Ashe Scott, Pharm.D. BCACP, CPP, FASHP, serves as the Regional Associate Dean for the School and oversees the operations of the School’s regional campus in Asheville.  She collaborates with leaders at UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC including UNC School of Medicine, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and UNC Adams School of Dentistry to advance inteprofessional primary care and rural health education, practice, and research. 

(828) 250-3900

greene_shepherd@unc.edu

Greene Shepherd, Pharm.D., is currently a professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Appalachian State University, Doctor of Pharmacy from Campbell University and completed a fellowship in clinical toxicology at the University of Maryland.

(919) 962-0093

bob_shrewsbury@unc.edu

Bob Shrewsbury received his BS in pharmacy from the University of Oklahoma in 1972 and his PhD from the University of Kentucky in 1977. His background training is in basic and applied biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics and in drug-interaction mechanisms. More recently, his research interests have focused on classroom and laboratory instructional methodologies using Web-based or technology-based formats. He has authored over 100 book chapters, numerous online education courses and continuing education seminars and national certification examination study guides for pharmacy professionals, pharmacy students and pharmacy technicians. He built and maintains an internationally utilized website for pharmacy compounding where 40 percent of the users are from outside the United States. He was elected as member of the USP Expert Committee on Compounding in 2010 and again in 2015, and 2020.

dsteeb@email.unc.edu

David Steeb, Pharm.D., is an assistant professor and director of global engagement at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. He received his Bachelor of Science in chemistry and biology from the University of Miami and his Doctor of Pharmacy from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

(919) 966-1212

benurick@email.unc.edu

Ben Urick, Pharm.D. is an assistant professor at the Center for Medication Optimization Policy in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Excellence. His research lies at the intersection of pharmacy practice, healthcare and health policy.

(919) 966-7571

Carla@unc.edu

Carla White is a pharmacist, associate dean of Organizational Diversity and Inclusion, and clinical assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.  She is responsible for the development of an organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategy that will direct and align with the School’s education mission. She is a highly regarded thought leader, educator, influencer, and pragmatic disruptor in the DEI space. Major areas of responsibility include developing best practices and strategic and partnerships, addressing challenges, and determining the relevant metrics to assess the School’s effectiveness and impact.  

(828) 250-3906

charlene_williams@unc.edu

Charlene Williams completed her Doctor of Pharmacy at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed an ASHP-accredited specialty residency in primary care at Mission Hospital and the Mountain Area Health Education Center. Currently, she is the Director of Preceptor Development and a clinical assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Her primary teaching and research interests include preceptor development, empathy, and leadership development. Through her preceptor development research she hopes to develop new resources to enhance precepting effectiveness and efficiency in order to improve the experiences of preceptors and learners.

(919) 537-3854

wolcottm@email.unc.edu

Michael D. Wolcott, PharmD, PhD, is a clinical assistant professor with the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education (PACE) at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as well as in the Department of Oral and Craniofacial Health Sciences at the UNC School of Dentistry. He is a faculty fellow of CIPhER and Director of the Educational Resources and Scholarship within the UNC School of Dentistry. His research focuses on preceptor development, design thinking, assessment, and technology-enhanced learning.

(919) 966-0884

jackie_zeeman@unc.edu

Jackie Zeeman, PharmD, is a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education (PACE) and an assistant director in the Office of Organizational Effectiveness, Planning, and Assessment (OE) at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Wake Forest University and her Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. After earning her PharmD, Zeeman completed a pharmacy practice residency at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Pharmacy. She then completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Assessment of Student Learning and the Scholarship of Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.