April 9, 2013
Stephen Eckel, PharmD, MHA, has been named as clinical associate professor and vice chair for graduate and postgraduate education in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Eckel, an alumnus of the School, had been an adjunct assistant professor since 1999. He also serves as the associate director of pharmacy at UNC Hospitals and oversees the hospital’s pharmacy residency programs.
“In his dual role at the School and the hospital, Stephen has made numerous important contributions in education, practice, and research,” says Bob Blouin, PharmD, dean of the School. “He has proved himself as an innovator and played a vital role in strengthening the collaboration between the School and the hospital, which has benefitted both students and patients.”
Eckel has served as a preceptor, lecturer, and course coordinator for the School since 1997 and oversees the MS in pharmaceutical sciences program with a specialization in health-system pharmacy administration.
In 2009, he led the development of the Partnership in Patient Care, which combines the resources of the School and UNC Hospitals to increase the pharmacy services available to patients at the hospital, the amount of experiential education that pharmacy students receive at UNC, and the amount of point-of-care research being conducted.
Eckel was instrumental in developing the concept of Pharmacy Grand Rounds and partnering with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacy to launch this ongoing subscription-based continuing-education product in early 2013.
On the research front, Eckel investigates ways of improving the medication-use process to free up pharmacists to practice, and he has given talks around the world on that subject. He is also a leading expert on chemotherapy contamination in places that prepare and administer anticancer drugs, such as hospitals, pharmacies, clinics, and labs. In 2012, he and fellow School faculty member William Zamboni, PharmD, PhD, cofounded ChemoGLO LLC, a spinoff company that provides products and services to clean up surface contamination of anticancer agents and other hazardous drugs.
Eckel is a fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacy and the American Pharmacists Association. In 2012, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Hospital and Institutional Practice from the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management. In 2011, his pharmacy department at UNC Hospitals received the ASHP Best Practices Award.
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