Rebecca Grandy, Pharm.D., was named a Jim Bernstein Community Health Leadership Fellow for her work providing hepatitis C care in rural communities. Grandy is an assistant professor of clinical education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Asheville satellite campus … Read more
The Mountain Area Health Education Center and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have partnered for the construction of a new academic health center building on MAHEC’s Biltmore campus in Asheville. UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC seeks to … Read more
Rebecca Grandy, Pharm.D., is the recipient of the 2018 Excellence in Innovation Award from the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists for her work providing hepatitis C care in rural communities. Grandy is an assistant professor of clinical education at the … Read more
Faculty at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Asheville satellite campus presented at the National Rural Health Association annual conference in New Orleans. Mollie Ashe Scott, Pharm.D.; Rebecca Grandy, Pharm.D.; and Irene Park, Pharm.D., presented together at the conference, held … Read more
The North Carolina Area Health Education Centers awarded an Innovation Grant to Delesha Carpenter, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., to create an online module that prepares medical residents to communicate with pediatric patients and their parents about opioids. The grant of more than … Read more
Pharmacists who are allowed to dispense naloxone, an opioid reversal agent, without a prescription are often uncomfortable talking to patients about the drug, and the profession’s continuing education programs aren’t helping, according to a new study from the University of … Read more
Pharmacists conducting Medicare annual wellness visits in medical practices frequently uncover problems with patients’ medications while generating a profit for the practice, according to a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Researchers at the UNC Eshelman … Read more
Tasha Woodall, Pharm.D., an assistant professor of clinical education and clinical instructor of family medicine at the School’s Asheville campus, was awarded the 2015 Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award by the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. “I am so humbled by … Read more
By conducting 1,070 Medicare annual wellness visits a year, pharmacists in medical practices could cover for the cost of their salaries while using only 40 percent of their time. Wellness visits were created in 2011 as part of the Affordable … Read more
