October 10, 2014
Mitchell W. “Mickey” Watts has been awarded the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Alumni Association’s 2013 Distinguished Service Award.
Watts is a 1963 graduate of the School and received the award at its annual Recognition Dinner in Chapel Hill on September 18.
Watts is president of the Pharmacy Network Foundation, an organization whose goal is to improve the delivery and quality of pharmaceutical care to the public. He helped establish the Pharmacy Network of North Carolina, a benefit-management company, in 1986. Watts and his partners expanded the network into the multistate Pharmacy Network National Corporation.
Proceeds from the sale of the company helped create the Pharmacy Network Foundation. Under Watts’s leadership, the foundation has funded many scholarships for pharmacy students over the last ten years and provided financial support to pharmacy schools in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Watts is a former chairman of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Foundation and is currently vice president of the North Carolina Pharmacists Association Endowment board of directors. He began his career at Medical Center Pharmacy in Concord, North Carolina, and worked as a representative for Squibb in Charlotte. He returned to Concord to acquire Medical Center Pharmacy and opened nine new pharmacies and a medical-equipment company.
Each year, the pharmacy alumni association selects an alumnus or alumna whose accomplishments and contributions have enhanced the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the pharmacy profession at the local, state, national, and international levels to receive the Distinguished Service Award.
The alumni association was established in 1980 to support current students and alumni of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy through events and mentoring.
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