Regional Associate Dean, Eastern North Carolina / George H Cocolas Distinguished Professor
Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy - UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Betsy Sleath, Ph.D., is the Regional Associate Dean for Eastern North Carolina and the George H Cocolas Distinguished Professor in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She is a senior research fellow and director of the Child and Adolescent Health Program at the Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research. She is also an adjunct professor of health policy and management and epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is the recipient of the 2018 Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences from the American Pharmacists Association. She is a fellow of the American Pharmacists Association.
Professor Sleath is principal investigator on an AHRQ $1.6 million dollar grant titled “Improving African American glaucoma patient involvement in visits”. She has funding from The Duke Endowment and the Eshelman Institute for Innovation for a project titled “Your Opinion Matters: How to Make the Most Out of Talking to Health Care Providers” which has developed a website for adolescents that contains tools for being more involved in their health care titled "Information for the Evolving Teenager" (iuveo.org).