A community pharmacist and educator with practice experience within a medical group, academia, long term care, independent, and chain pharmacy, Rebecca Chater has been a career-long pioneer in innovative clinical pharmacy practice. She earned both her B.S. in Pharmacy and Masters in Public Health (with emphasis in Health Policy and Administration) from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Chater is President of KDI Health Solutions, LLC, a subsidiary of Kerr Drug, and healthcare provider organization specializing in preventive and chronic care services. For over a decade, she has led development of clinical pharmacy services within Kerr Drug, earning recognition as the 2006 Pinnacle Award recipient by the American Pharmacists Association Foundation; 2007 and 2008 National Medication Therapy Management Provider of the Year by Outcomes Pharmaceutical Health Care; 2008 North Carolina Provider of the Year by the American Diabetes Association; and most recently, recipient of the 2008 Eagle Award by the NC Alliance of Healthy Communities for greatest impact in improving community healthcare across North Carolina’s counties.
Chater has been recognized nationally for her professional leadership as a past Trustee and Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association, past recipient of the prestigious APhA Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award, as well as the APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management Administrative Practice Award. On the state level, she is past recipient of the North Carolina Young Pharmacist Award, North Carolina Preceptor of the Year, North Carolina Association of Pharmacists Innovative Practice Award, the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists Don Blanton Award, and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Distinguished Service Award. She is a Fellow of APhA and the Wharton School of Business. She is a two-term Member, and Past-President of the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy.
Chater has over 100 publications, grants, and presentations to her credit. She was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee that authored the CMS commissioned report, Preventing Medication Errors, released 2007.
