August 26, 2013
Bob Dupuis, PharmD, has been promoted to the rank of clinical professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Dupuis has been a member of the School’s faculty for nearly thirty years, directs the DPET Clinical Fellows Program, and practices as a transplant pharmacist at UNC Hospitals.
“Bob Dupuis an outstanding clinician, an award-winning educator, and a role model for students and faculty alike,” says Bob Blouin, PharmD, dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. “We are very fortunate to have had him as a part of the life of this school for three decades.”
After earning his BS in pharmacy at Northeastern University in 1979, Dupuis headed south to complete a one-year residency at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro. That was his first introduction to North Carolina, and it left him with the impression that the state — with its reputation for progressive pharmacy practice — might be a good place to settle down one day, he says.
Five years later, Dupuis found himself back in North Carolina, this time in Chapel Hill. After finishing his work in Greensboro, he had returned to SUNY-Buffalo to complete his PharmD. He then practiced as clinical coordinator in medicine and pharmacokinetics at Buffalo General Hospital and served as a clinical instructor at the SUNY-Buffalo pharmacy and medical schools. In 1985, he arrived at the UNC pharmacy school to see about fellowship opportunities. It so happened that at the time UNC Hospitals and the pharmacy school wanted to develop and expand the clinical pharmacokinetics consult service and create a training site for PharmD students and residents, which was exactly what Dupuis was doing in Buffalo.
Instead of becoming a fellow at the School, Dupuis was offered a faculty position. He joined the School as an instructor and the hospital as director of the clinical pharmacokinetics service (a position he held until 1991 and again from 1994 to 1995) and as assistant director of toxicology in the Department of Laboratory Medicine (until 2010). In the School, he was promoted to assistant professor in 1989, to clinical associate professor in 1995, and to clinical professor this spring.
In 1995 Dupuis changed his clinical focus at UNC Hospitals from pharmacokinetics to solid-organ transplantation and directed the solid-organ transplant residency program at the hospitals from 1996 to 2006. Since 2006, he has directed the clinical fellowship program in DPET. The program offers both academic fellowships designed to teach postdoctoral trainees how to develop their own research program at an academic institution and industry-sponsored fellowships that prepare them to conduct clinical research in the pharmaceutical industry. The program has been in existence at the School for more than thirty years.
Dupuis is highly regarded as an instructor and teaches in physiology, nephrology, pharmacokinetics, drug literature evaluation, immunology and infectious diseases, and problems in pharmacotherapy. He has been recognized as instructor or preceptor of the year nine times by various classes — including being named the 2013 PY2 instructor of the year — and received awards for excellence in teaching from the School in 2006 and 2007. He is heavily involved with the Honors Program and Rho Chi.
In addition to his work at UNC Hospitals, Dupuis also practices as a pharmacist and consultant at Durham Regional Hospital and the Orange County Public Health Department. He is a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist and the author of more than thirty-five peer-reviewed publications.
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