Pharmacotherapy Section
The Pharmacotherapy Section’s mission is to educate and train future family physicians and pharmacists in the evidence-based, safe, and cost-effective use of medications while providing comprehensive medication management in a collaborative, team-based patient care model.
Clinical Pharmacist Faculty are located onsite at each of our department’s primary teaching sites
- Family Medicine Center
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service at ECU Health Medical Center
- Monk Geriatric Center
- Golden Living Center
As educators we provide point of care teaching at each of these sites during inpatient rounds and outpatient clinic encounters. To further develop our learners’ knowledge of the principles of rational prescribing, we participate extensively in the didactic portion of the Family Medicine residency curriculum including in-service and academic afternoon lectures.
As clinicians we provide direct patient care and patient education in both inpatient, outpatient and tele-medicine settings. We are committed to integrated and team-based care. We collaborate with faculty and resident physicians and participate in their patient encounters as well as in multi-disciplinary primary care specialty clinics including diabetes, falls, and AGES.
The Family Medicine Center offers a referral service to the department’s Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners. This service provides a training site for learners from various health care disciplines. The service includes patient education and comprehensive medication management in common chronic illnesses such as
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Hyperlipidemia
- Anticoagulation
- Heart Failure
- Asthma
- COPD
In addition to our core Pharmacotherapy faculty, a Clinical Pharmacist with Community Care Plan of Eastern Carolina is embedded with Family Medicine to assist our providers in managing Medicaid patients.
Several faculty members provide clinical rotation sites for 4th year pharmacy students from Campbell University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.