November 9, 2012
Stefanie Ferreri, PharmD, and Greene Shepherd, PharmD, have been named executive vice chair and vice chair respectively in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education.
As executive vice chair, Ferreri will manage operating budgets, oversee the division’s interaction with the School’s business cluster, and assist the division chair with duties such as annual reviews and reports and assigning course management and teaching responsibilities.
Shepherd will serve as vice chair for faculty development and mentorship. He will develop and maintain an assessment of faculty development needs in the division, create personal faculty-development plans based around needs assessment and track those plans based on outcomes. He will also create a mentoring program for the division.
“These new positions are critical to the success of PACE and the School as a whole,” says Denise Rhoney, PharmD, chair of the division. “Stefanie and Greene will be important leaders in our efforts to advance the practice of pharmacy, develop pharmacists, and engage stakeholders in accordance with the School’s Strategic Plan.”
Stefanie Ferreri
Ferreri is a clinical associate professor who has served as director of the School’s Community Pharmacy Residency Program since 2004. Prior to that, she served as a residency preceptor for the program. Since 2001 she has supervised and mentored more than sixty community pharmacy residents in the program. Her research and practice interests include nonprescription medication therapy, medication therapy management, and advancing clinical practice in the community pharmacy setting.
Ferreri is an associate editor for the Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs. She has served as course coordinator for self-care and nonprescription medications since 2001 and also offers an elective in self-care therapeutics. She continues to practice in a community pharmacy providing medication therapy management regarding prescription and nonprescription medications. She also educates patients about medical conditions such as diabetes and administers immunizations. Her practice site serves as her research laboratory where she tests new services for community pharmacy practice.
On a national level, Ferreri is an active member in the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management. In 2009–2010 she served a chair of the Clinical/Pharmacotherapeutic Section. In 2008 she was awarded fellow status from the APhA, and in 2011, she received the Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence in Precepting Award. She also serves as a media adviser for this organization. Ferreri is an active member in the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, having completed a three-year elected term as member-at-large for the board of directors in 2010. In 2007 she received the NCAP Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year Award.
Greene Shepherd
Greene Shepherd, PharmD, is a clinical professor and director of professional education at the School’s Asheville satellite campus. 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.
Shepherd is a diplomate of the American Board of Applied Toxicology and a fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology. He is the author of more than thirty journal articles and more than twenty-five textbook chapters relating to clinical toxicology, emergency medicine, and disaster preparedness. He has developed special training courses for mass casualty decontamination for health-care workers and emergency preparedness for pharmacists. In the past he served as a professor at the University of Georgia, the director of the North Texas Poison Center, and worked as a licensed pharmacist in community and hospital sites.
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