Betty H. Dennis is a graduate of the UNC School of Pharmacy (BS, MS, and PharmD degrees). She practices as Senior Clinical Specialist in Ambulatory Care and Coordinator of the Primary Care Residency at UNC Hospitals' Department of Pharmacy, and Clinical Associate Professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy. Betty is a Certified Diabetes Educator and Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. She completed an ASHP Hospital Pharmacy Residency at N.C Memorial Hospital and has served as Pharmacy Supervisor for Medicine at the University of Kentucky Medical Center; Director of Pharmacy, UNC Student Health Services; and Director of Continuing Education and Associate Director of Pharmacy Area Health Education Centers, UNC School of Pharmacy.
Betty is a Life Member of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists and is a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association and the ASHP. She has served in elected and appointed positions in state and national organizations including President of NCAP, Board of Directors of NCSHP, APhA delegate and Member-at-Large of the Section on Administrative Practice, and Chair of the ASHP Infectious Diseases Fellowship Selection Panel. Committee activities have focused on practice, education and legal/regulatory issues. She has received the UNC School of Pharmacy Alumni Award for Distinguished Service, NCAP Presidential Award, NCSHP President's Award, and the UNC School of Pharmacy's Best Instructor Award. Betty was a founding member of the North Carolina Cancer Pain Initiative, co-founder of the UNC-CH interdisciplinary campus course on AIDS Awareness, Faculty Advisor for Lambda Chapter, Kappa Epsilon, and chairman of the Protection of Human Subjects Committee at Family Health International.
Betty’s civic activities have included Vice President for the Durham-Orange Chapter of Zonta International, Marching Mother for the March of Dimes, volunteer lecturer for the South Orange Rescue Squad EMT Program, and volunteer pharmacist for the Homeless Shelter Clinic.
