January 12, 2012
Latasha Weeks, PharmD, has accepted the position of regional assistant dean at Elizabeth City for the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Weeks is a clinical assistant professor in the School’s Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education.
Weeks will oversee the School’s satellite campus in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, which was created in 2005 in partnership with Elizabeth City State University. She became the ECSU–based director of the UNC/ECSU Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership Program in 2010. She was formerly a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and completed a community pharmacy residency at UNC-Chapel Hill.
“Latasha Weeks has been key to the success of our Elizabeth City satellite since she arrived there two years ago,” says Bob Blouin, PharmD, dean of the School. “This promotion recognizes both her past contributions and the pivotal role she will now play in ensuring the quality of our program.”
As assistant dean, Weeks will provide overall leadership to maintain and expand the partnership program and will develop and implement programs and activities that encourage the growth of and support the needs of the students based on the ECSU campus, Blouin says.
The PharmD partnership program with ECSU aims to increase the number of pharmacists and pharmacy faculty practicing in North Carolina, with a particular focus on reaching underserved populations, especially those in the northeastern part of the state. Students based at ECSU receive classroom instructions from faculty at the Chapel Hill site via interactive, real-time video-teleconferencing technology, as well as from faculty in Elizabeth City. Upon completing all degree requirements, the students graduate with a doctor of pharmacy from UNC-Chapel Hill with acknowledgment of the partnership with ECSU. The School also has a satellite campus in Asheville.
Weeks received her doctor of pharmacy from the University of Maryland. She also holds bachelor’s degrees in microbiology and in economics from that institution. As a member of the UMD faculty, she served as pharmacist coordinator for an introductory pharmacy practice experience. Prior to beginning her of her residency at UNC, weeks worked as a clinical account manager with First Health Services Corporation in Owings Mills, Maryland., where she provided clinical and managed-care services to the District of Columbia and Montana Medicaid Programs. She has also practiced as a staff pharmacist with CVS and Walmart in Baltimore, Maryland.
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