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Derek Bartlett

Derek.Bartlett@unc.edu

Derek Bartlett, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. His research focuses on the combination of quantitative systems pharmacology modeling and microfluidic perfusion systems as an animal-alternative approach for the systematic interrogation of drug pharmacokinetic (PK)-pharmacodynamic (PD) relationships.

Kim L. R. Brouwer

(919) 962-7030

kbrouwer@unc.edu

Kim L.R. Brouwer, Pharm.D., Ph.D., is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, associate dean for research and graduate education, and a professor in the curriculum in toxicology.

Yanguang Cao

(919) 966-4040

yanguang@email.unc.edu

Yanguang Cao, Ph.D., joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy initially as an assistant professor and then promoted as an associate professor in the division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Prior to joining the School, Cao served as a research assistant professor at SUNY Buffalo for two years after completing a postdoctoral training program at SUNY, Buffalo.

Amber Cipriani

984-974-0767

Amber.Cipriani@unchealth.unc.edu

Amber Cipriani, Pharm.D., joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapy. Cipriani’s appointment is cofunded by UNC Hospitals, where she serves as a clinical oncology specialist in thoracic oncology.

Amanda Corbett

(919) 843-2280

ahcorbet@email.unc.edu

Amanda Corbett, Pharm.D., is an associate professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics and the Global Pharmacology Coordinator for the UNC Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Her expertise are in HIV, antiviral, and opportunistic infection clinical pharmacy and ethnopharmacology. She has extensive experience in developing countries and more recently in integrative medicine practices.

Mackenzie Leigh Cottrell

mlcottre@email.unc.edu

Mackenzie Cottrell, Pharm.D., M.S. is an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Her research focuses on describing pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic relationships in mucosal tissues for antiretrovirals being used in HIV prevention and cure interventions.

Daniel Crona

(919) 966-4343

crona@email.unc.edu

Daniel Crona, Pharm.D., Ph.D., joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in 2015. His translational research program focuses on how genetic variations can lead to differences in the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of therapeutic treatments used in oncology, and how inter-individual differences in clinical pharmacology measures can affect survival and drug toxicity phenotypes.

Julie Dumond

(919) 966-5017

jdumond@unc.edu

Julie Dumond, Pharm.D., M.S., is an associate professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Her primary research interest is the pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of antiretrovirals. She is currently conducting a clinical study in aging, HIV-infected subjects to explore the effects of cellular aging and frailty on antiretroviral toxicity and efficacy.

Robert Dupuis

(919) 966-6194

re_dupuis@unc.edu

Robert Dupuis, PharmD, FCCO, is a clinical professor and vice department chair within the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Dr. Dupuis is also the division’s director of fellowship programs. In this role, he advises postdoctoral fellows on clinical research in the areas of regulatory affairs, medical affairs, clinical development, and pharmacometrics. Dr. Dupuis has expertise in clinical pharmacology, drug metabolism, drug disposition, pharmacogenomics, adverse effects, outcomes and enhancement of care.

Muluneh M. Fashe

muluneh@email.unc.edu

Muluneh M. Fashe, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. His research goal is to develop and validate in vitro experimental models that can be used to provide mechanistic explanations for altered xenobiotic metabolism and clearance and optimize the safe and effective use of therapeutics in patients.

Amber Frick

(919) 962-5495

adfrick@email.unc.edu

Amber Frick, Pharm.D., Ph.D., is an assistant professor with the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Her main responsibilities at the School are to develop an expertise in the implementation and assessment of new approaches to and best practices in teaching while also taking part in collaborative teaching activities.

Erin Heinzen

(919) 843-5981

erin-h@email.unc.edu

The Heinzen Lab focuses on the genetic and genomic basis of epilepsy disorders, including analyses of the role of germline mutations, somatic mutations, and how regulation of the cellular transcriptome influences the risk and presentation of seizures. In collaboration with a number of investigators in neurology, neuropathology, and neurosurgery, my group is to studies the role of somatic mutations in epilepsy and other neurological diseases.

Ian B. Hollis

919-962-0072

ianbhollis@unc.edu

Ian B. Hollis, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Ian coordinates a course in the Integrative Pharmacotherapy series and teaches in several PharmD courses. His practice and research interests include the medication management of patients with heart failure, and those status post cardiac surgery, left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) placement, and/or heart transplantation.

Klarissa Dawniette Jackson

(919) 962-5551

klarissa.jackson@unc.edu

Klarissa Jackson joined the faculty at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Jackson obtained her B.S. in chemistry from Jackson State University and her Ph.D. in pharmacology from Vanderbilt University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry under the mentorship of Drs. Allan Rettie and Sidney Nelson. Prior to joining the faculty at UNC, Jackson was as an assistant professor at Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University.

Angela Kashuba

(919) 966-1122

esop_dean@unc.edu

Dr. Kashuba’s research focuses on the clinical pharmacology of drugs used in the treatment, prevention, and cure of HIV infection. She is working on optimizing dosing strategies for HIV prevention including the role of sex and ethnicity, characterizing drug distribution in putative viral reservoirs using mass spectrometry imaging, determining predictors of drug tissue distribution, and developing in vitro models for optimizing combination therapy for HIV cure.

Craig Lee

(919) 843-7673

craig_lee@unc.edu

Craig Lee, Pharm.D, Ph.D. is a professor and the chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. His research focuses on cytochrome P450 metabolism, cardiovascular experimental therapeutics, and precision medicine/pharmacogenomics.

Benyam Muluneh

(919) 962-0070

bmuluneh@unc.edu

Benyam Muluneh, Pharm.D., is an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Muluneh coordinates a course in the integrative pharmacotherapy series and teaches in several PharmD courses. His research interests include optimization of pharmacotherapy in leukemias through the precision dosing initiative and a multidimensional approach to understanding and improving adherence to oral oncolytics. Muluneh also leads the school’s collaborations with Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia with a focus on hematology/oncology including serving as a GPS preceptor.

Adam M Persky

(919) 966-9104

apersky@unc.edu

Adam Persky is a professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. He teaches physiology and pharmacokinetics. His research focuses on translating the science of learning and memory into practical application in the classroom and experiential settings.

Jo Ellen Rodgers

(919) 962-2249

jerodgers@unc.edu

Jo Ellen Rodgers, Pharm.D., is a professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics and serves as director of postdoctoral programs for the Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Rodgers’ primary research interest is in the care of heart failure patients.

Elias Rosen

(919) 962-5151

eli@unc.edu

Dr. Rosen’s research focuses on the development of methods to measure intracellular distribution of therapeutics and their metabolites in a variety of biological matrices using mass spectrometry imaging. He is currently quantifying the penetration of drugs relevant to HIV treatment and eradication into putative viral reservoirs, and combining this approach with traditional imaging modalities to evaluate efficacy of experimental treatment regimens.

Zhenwei Song

zhenwei_song@med.unc.edu

Dr. Song’s research is focused on developing safer and more efficient AAV vectors for liver-target gene therapy. He is working on the evaluation of hepatotoxicity risks in 3D spheroids models for AAV gene therapy.

Patricia Termini

919-962-5339

pdterm@unc.edu

Patricia Termini, M.S., RAC, is an associate professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics as well as the director of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Master of Professional Science (MPS) in Regulatory Science program.

Jacqueline B. Tiley

(919) 962-0089

jackiebe@email.unc.edu

Jacqueline B. Tiley, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Her research interest is on disease- and drug-mediated alterations in hepatic and placental transport proteins and its impact on drug disposition and toxicity. Her overall goal is to improve the safety of medications used during pregnancy and breastfeeding, as well as advance precision medicine strategies.

Paul B. Watkins

919-966-8389

pwatkins@email.unc.edu

Paul Watkins, M.D., is director of the the Watkins Lab for Drug Safety Sciences at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the Howard Q. Ferguson Distinguished Professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics.

William Zamboni, PhD

(919) 843-6665

zamboni@email.unc.edu

William Zamboni, Pharm.D., Ph.D., is a professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is the director of the UNC Advanced Translational Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry (ATPAC) Lab and Recharge Center in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC), and the Carolina Institute of Nanomedicine. His research interests focus on the application of pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, and pharmacogenetic principles in the optimization of the chemotherapeutic treatment of cancer.

Lisa Tarantino, Ph.D.

919-843-7292

lisat@med.unc.edu

The research in Dr. Tarantino’s laboratory is focused on identification and characterization of genes that influence behavior. In particular, they study mouse models of addiction, anxiety, stress and depression-like behaviors.

Kirkwood Adams, MD
Adams is an associate professor of medicine and radiology at the UNC School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology.

Hugh Barton, PhD
Barton is an expert in the areas of systems pharmacology modeling, PBPK modeling, and PKPD modeling.

Almassa Bass, PharmD
Bass is a pharmaceutical industry professional in clinical drug development, medical affairs, and regulatory affairs at UCB.

Daniel K. Benjamin, Jr., MD, PhD, MPH
Benjamin is a recognized specialist, mentor and advisor in pediatric infectious diseases. He is a faculty associate director and Kiser-Arena Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Duke Clinical Research Institute.

Bob Blouin, PharmD
Blouin is president and CEO of Med Aditus International.

William Brock, PhD
Brock is the founder of Brock Scientific Consulting LLC which provides expert-led toxicology services to the pharmaceutical, consumer product, food, medical device, and chemical industries.

Gilbert Burckart, PharmD
Burkhart is the associate director of pediatrics in the office of clinical pharmacology at the US Food and Drug Administration.

Scott Clark
Clark is an expert in the field of pharmacogenomics and the founder of SCSClark Networks.

Michael Cohen-Wolkowiez, MD, PhD
Cohen-Wolkowiez is a professor of pediatrics at the Duke University School of Medicine and a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He specializes in pediatric pharmacology and clinical trials.

Austin Combest, PharmD
Combest is a drug development scientist with experience in academia, CRO and pharmaceutical industry.

Tyler Dunlap, PharmD
Dunlap is a PK/PD research scientist at Metrum Research.

Eric Faulkner, MPH
Faulkner is an expert in patient-centric solutions and innovation for Altius Bioventures.

Mona Fiuzat, PharmD, FACC, FHFA, FHFSA
Fiuzat is an associate professor of medicine at Duke University, a senior scientific advisor at the FDA, an executive editor of JACC: Heart Failure, and a former senior scientific advisor to the FDA commissioner.

Ronald Fleming, PharmD
Fleming’s research area is oncology and provides expertise in the pharmaceutical industry.

Giulia Ghibellini, PhD
Ghibellini is the director of clinical pharmacology at Teva Pharmaceuticals. Her research expertise is in the fields of pharmacokinetics and clinical pharmacology.

Daniel Gonzalez, PharmD, PhD
Gonzalez is a faculty member at the Duke Clinical Research Institute/Duke University School of Medicine.

Alison Harrill, PhD
Harrill is an associate director for toxicology at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure

Peter Ho, MD, PhD
Ho is a drug development executive with expertise in clinical oncology and cancer pharmacology.

Paavo Honkakoski, PhD

Matthew Loop, PhD
Loop is an assistant professor focusing on health outcomes research and policy at Auburn University, Harrison College of Pharmacy.

Carmella Moody, PhD
Moody is a regulatory affairs program manager at RTI international.

Merrie Mosedale, PhD
Mosedale works as a Regulatory Science Lead within Global Regulatory Affairs at UCB Biosciences Inc.

Alison A. Motsinger-Reif, PhD
Motsinger-Reif’s research at the North Carolina State University is focused on pharmacogenetics and bioinformatics.

Prem Narang, PhD, FCP
Narang is a strategic regulatory & drug development innovation advisor and president of P.K. Narang Strategic Consulting, LLC.

Kouros Owzar, PhD
Owzar is a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke University, Division of Integrative Genomics.

Jai Narendra Patel, PharmD
At the Carolina HealthCare System’s Levine Cancer Institute, Patel is involved in preclinical drug development research.

Nita Patel, PhD
Patel is a senior research advisor in drug disposition at Eli Lilly and Company. She focuses on drug development.

Kenneth Phares, PhD
Phares has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically in the areas of preformulation, formulation development, and bioanalytical method development.

Bob Powell, PharmD
Powell is a clinical pharmacologist who is interested in developing better dosing strategies in emerging markets with the goal of making drugs safer and more effective.

Gauri Rao, PharmD, MS
Rao is an associate professor of clinical pharmacy at the Titus Family Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Southern California.

Virginia Schmith, PhD, FCP
Schmith has extensive research experience in clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics.

Todd Schwartz
Schwartz is a director at the US Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Computational Toxicology

Dianna Severynse-Stevens, PhD
Severynse-Stevens has expertise in pharmaceutical product development and regulatory affairs.

Frank Sistare, PhD
Sistare is a retired scientific associate vice president of safety assessment & laboratory animal resources preclinical development at Merck Research Laboratories.

Russell Thomas, PhD
Thomas is the director for the EPA’s National Center for Computational Toxicology. His research is focused on genomic biology and bioinformatics.

Jian Wang, PhD, MSRS, FCP
Wang is the the global head of translational, oncology regulatory science, strategy and excellence for AstraZeneca.

Daniel Weiner, PhD
Weiner’s expertise is in the field of pharmacometrics and pharmaceutical biostatistics.

Tim Wiltshire, PhD
Wiltshire’s expertise is in pharmacogenetics and how they can be used effectively in clinical practice.

Maciej Jan Zamek-Gilszczynski, PhD
Zamek-Gilszczynski is a scientific director at GlaxoSmithKline. His research focuses on preclinical drug development.

Darryl Zeldin, MD
Zeldin is a senior investigator in the Immunity, Inflammation, and Disease Laboratory / Environmental Cardiopulmonary Disease Group at the NIEHS.

Zhiyang Zhao, PhD
Zhao is Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at Resolian.

J. Heyward Hull

J. Heyward Hull is a professor emeritus in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics.

Herb Patterson

Herb Patterson, Pharm.D., is a is a professor emeritus in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics.

Wayne Pittman

Wayne Pittman is a professor emeritus in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics.