HERC of the Carolinas

The Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy invites applications for a 12-month fixed-term faculty position at the rank of assistant, associate, or full professor. The primary focus of this position will be teaching in the professional Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program.

The School's PharmD program is a rigorous four-year program with a campus in Chapel Hill, NC and Asheville, NC. Through the PharmD curriculum, students engage in both didactic coursework and experiential learning whereby they are immersed in real-world patient care. In 2015, the School launched a transformative curriculum designed to emphasize active engagement of students in the classroom, foster problem solving and scientific inquiry, and immerse students in patient care early and often throughout their education. Our PharmD graduates are highly successful in a wide range of practice environments including pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, government agencies, academia, and other healthcare and business sectors. The School is committed to maintaining the highest quality education. To do so, we must ensure that we recruit the best and brightest educators to ensure we sustain excellence and continually enhance and strengthen our program. 

This position will be based in the School's Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics (DPET) (https://pharmacy.unc.edu/divisions/dpet/). The primary focus of DPET is the optimization of drug therapy through the discovery and evaluation of key factors that influence how therapeutic agents work in individual patients. DPET consists of faculty with expertise in pharmacotherapy, experimental and clinical pharmacology, pharmacometrics, drug toxicity, precision medicine, drug development, education, and practice innovations across several therapeutic areas. Our faculty improve patient care by discovering and applying new therapeutic knowledge through our innovative, collaborative, and clinically relevant research, and by educating the next generation of pharmacists and clinical-translational scientists. Our graduate and postdoctoral fellowship training programs develop scientists who conduct innovative clinical and translational research that integrates biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences through use of state-of-the-art laboratory, clinical, and computational modeling approaches. Under the overarching theme of precision therapeutics, our core research focus areas are translational & quantitative pharmacology, experimental therapeutics & genomics, and precision pharmacotherapy.

The primary focus of this position will be dedicated to PharmD teaching in the area of pharmacotherapy. A particular therapeutic area is not being targeted for this position. The ideal candidate will have training and expertise in special patient populations, clinical pharmacokinetics, and/or precision medicine/pharmacogenomics, and the ability and desire to teach therapeutics topics that span across multiple areas. Specific teaching responsibilities will be driven by both the needs of the PharmD program as well as the expertise and interests of the faculty member. In addition to dedicating a significant proportion of their responsibilities to teaching activities, the faculty member will also have responsibilities in research and scholarship, professional service, and, if applicable, patient care. The effort allocation in each area will be tailored to the expertise and professional goals of the faculty member. Opportunities to engage in education and mentoring of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will be available.