Nicole Pinelli Reitter, Pharm.D., has been promoted to clinical associate professor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Pinelli Reitter is also the assistant dean of experiential programs: health systems.
“Through her area of focus, Dr. Reitter has made a large impact on our school and the profession of pharmacy,” said Stephen Eckel, Pharm.D., M.H.A., interim chair of PACE and associate director of pharmacy at UNC Hospitals. “Her scholarship and publication record are especially noteworthy considering that she is still in the early stage of her career. In addition, it is in an area where we need much more rigor and evaluation.”
In scholarship, Reitter has primarily focused on the intersection of the scholarship of education and application. She has received eight externally funded grants and published 17 peer-reviewed publications since her arrival at UNC in 2012.
Reitter’s scholarship focuses on the delivery and assessment of practice-based education. She has demonstrated a positive association between engagement of pharmacy learners in the delivery of interdisciplinary care transition and comprehensive medication management practice models and organizational and educational outcomes. She has been instrumental in using her scholarship program surrounding the layered-learning practice model and early-immersion programs integrating student pharmacists in practice to help the School effectively design, implement and evaluate the experiential education program for the new curriculum at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Reitter has also continued her work in broad-scale pharmacy practice model innovation and endocrine therapeutics.
Reitter has been praised for her exceptional dedication to the pharmacy profession while maintaining a busy schedule of scholarship and teaching. Most of her involvement at the national level has been through the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and the Experiential Education Section at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. She has held three elected officer positions for the Endocrine and Metabolism Practice and Research Network at ACCP.
Since her arrival at UNC, Reitter has been dedicated to curricular transformation efforts, educational research and assessment endeavors, and has led interprofessional educational activities at both the School and University level. As Chair of the Residency Research Committee at UNC Medical Center between 2013 and 2016, Reitter was instrumental in developing and executing the “flipped” model of residency research.
Reitter has received numerous honors throughout her career at UNC-Chapel Hill, including being inducted as a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy in 2017 and receiving the ASHP Best Practices Award in Health-System Pharmacy in 2014.