CHARLES
C. PULLIAM
Associate Professor and Director, Program on
Aging
- B.S. Pharmacy - Northeast Louisiana University / 1968
- M.S. Pharmacy - Northeast Louisiana University / 1971
- Residency - Moses H. Cone Memorial Hosptial, Greensboro, NC / 1969-70
BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Charles Pulliam joined the UNC Division of Pharmacy Practice in 1970. In addition to developing
a Therapeutics course that year, he initiated the first clinical pharmacy service at UNC Hospitals. His
interest in aging and geriatrics grew from his clinical practice on the Coronary Care Unit at UNC
Hospitals, and in 1979 his clinical practice shifted to the Carol Woods Retirement Community and its long-
term care facility. In 1986 he established the School of Pharmacy’s Program on Aging. Today the
program promotes teaching and research in aging through educational offerings, model geriatric practices,
and post-graduate training programs that target the older patient's pharmaceutical care needs. His present
clinical responsibilities include consultant services for 220 long-term care beds, outpatient clinical service
with the UNC Geriatric Evaluation Team, and clinical teaching in Geriatrics. His research focuses on
health services research and the pharmacoepidemiology of adverse drug reactions. He is a Fellow of both
the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists and the American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- "General and psychotherapeutic medication use in 490 nursing facilities: a 1994 national survey"
(Tobias DE and Pulliam CC) The Consultant Pharmacist 9(12): 1427-1435, December 1994.
- "Assessment of interrater and intrarater reliability in the evaluation of metered dose inhaler technique"
(Gray SL, Nance AC, Williams DM and Pulliam CC) Chest 105(3):710-714, March 1994
- "Pharmacy consultation in the home care setting" (Pulliam CC, Fleming B, Hanlon JT, Hughes TF,
Kirby MG, Reed C) Journal of Geriatric Drug Therapy 7(3):3-19, 1993
- "Medication use by home health patients" (Fleming B, Pulliam CC, Perfetto EM, Hanlon JT, Bowling
JM) Journal of Geriatric Drug Therapy 7(3):33-45, 1993
- "Contemporary Issues in Geriatric Drug Therapy" (Pulliam CC, Hanlon JT, Moore SR) Journal
of Geriatric Drug Therapy 4(2):43-86, 1989.
- "Statistical and Research Quality of the Medical and Pharmacy Literature." (Thorn MD, Pulliam CC,
Symons MJ and Eckel FM). American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy 42(4):1041-1048, May
1985.
This page was updated on March 22, 1995 / Email: chas_pulliam@unc.edu