Faculty

Rowell Daniels, Pharm.D., M.S., is Director of Pharmacy the University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals and Clinics in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr. Daniels has served in numerous roles in his eleven years at UNC, including Assistant Director and Associate Director. In 2007, he was promoted to Director of Pharmacy at UNC Hospitals and Clinics. He has been actively involved in the implementation of Computerized Provider Order Entry, the implementation of advanced electronic rules-based decision making, as well as other tools and automation that advance clinical practice and pharmacy services. He has also chaired the UNC Hospitals' Medication Safety Committee for many years. Through this committee, he has helped implement numerous safe medication-use standards affecting physician, nurse and pharmacy practice standards and associated systems. As Director of Pharmacy at UNC Hospitals and Clinics, Dr. Daniels is now focused on enhancing mutually beneficial opportunities that exist between UNC Hospitals and Clinics and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

Dr. Daniels received his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy Degrees from the University of Georgia. He has also completed a two-year specialty residency and Masters degree program in Hospital Pharmacy Administration at the University of Wisconsin. After residency, Dr. Daniels served as Associate Director of Pharmacy at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.

Dr. Daniels' areas of practice interest include Information Systems and Automation, Medication Policy, Clinical Practice Models, and Performance Improvement.

Beth S. Williams, PharmD, BCPS is Director of Pharmacy at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Within the health system, Dr. Williams leads the acute care division of the corporate Department of Pharmacy. Her primary areas of interest include patient safety, quality improvement and continuity of care. Dr. Williams earned both her Bachelors of Science and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a pharmacy practice residency at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

Miriam Mobley Smith, Pharm.D., is the Associate Dean and Associate Professor at the Chicago State University College of Pharmacy. Prior to her appointment at Chicago State, she was on faculty for 12 years at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy, including serving as the Director of Experiential Education. Dr. Mobley Smith is an adjunct faculty member in the Allied Health, Nursing and Human Services Department at South Suburban College, South Holland, Illinois, and served on the curriculum advisory board, "Tech Prep Medical Professional" advisory committee and re-accreditation review team. She recently served as a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Future Healthcare Workforce for Older Americans. In addition, Dr. Mobley Smith was a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2005 Primary Healthcare Policy Fellow and an American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy 2006 Academic Leadership Fellow. She has chaired the PTCB Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination Standards Setting Committee, 2005 National Practice Analysis and was Past-President of the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board Certification Council.

She has delivered over 100 invited local, regional and national presentations and published in areas relative to her areas of focus. She has received numerous professional and civic awards including the 2006 Illinois Area Agencies on Aging Sid Granet Aging Network Achievement Award, 2005 Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists “Pharmacist of the Year”, featured in the 2005 Aetna Profiles of African American Pharmacists (African American History Calendar) and the 2004 National Pharmaceutical Association's James N. Tyson Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in contributions to the profession of pharmacy. Dr. Mobley Smith received her B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Michigan and Pharm.D. from the University of Illinois.