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Faculty Spotlights
Campbell faculty member has served on campus for over 30 years, bringing diversity, mentorship, and subject matter expertise to the student experience
Dr. Antoine J. Al-Achi, professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, has roots in the Eastern Mediterranean and North African regions. He joined the Campbell University family in 1989. Before joining Campbell, he taught Pharmacokinetics in the pharmacy school at Northeastern University. Al-Achi has spent more than thirty years teaching in Campbell’s undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs while contributing extensive research and publications to the field of science.
Al-Achi holds a PhD from Northeastern University in Biomedical Sciences/ Pharmacokinetics. He completed his post-doctoral training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Throughout his career he has authored three books, several book chapters, and more than 220 research, review, poster and presentation publications.
Two of Al-Achi’s book publications focused on botanicals, and one was dedicated to integrated pharmaceutics. He has authored chapters and co-authored Pharmacokinetics books and conducted extensive research on the formulation of peptides and proteins, using recombinant human insulin as a model drug. He routinely works with clinicians in analyzing data obtained from human subjects.
The College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (CPHS), in conjunction with the Campbell Office of Adult and Online Education (AOE), established a new program offering a Botanical and Holistic Health Graduate Certificate. Al-Achi has been teaching botanicals and alternative medicine since 1999, and one of his hobbies includes reading books on botanical and herbal medicine. His knowledge and expertise in this subject matter deemed him the perfect administrator to oversee the new certificate program.
The goal of this program is to educate post-professionals about the role nutraceuticals, dietary supplements, and botanicals play in a person’s emotional, mental, physical, social, and spiritual needs.
“Understanding therapeutic applications and effects, complementary modalities, herbal preparations and remedies, and an overview of eastern therapies will allow professionals to more holistically understand the human body and better consult their patients,” Al-Achi commented.
“Understanding therapeutic applications and effects, complementary modalities, herbal preparations and remedies, and an overview of eastern therapies will allow professionals to more holistically understand the human body and better consult their patients.” — Dr. Antoine J. Al-Achi
Some of Al-Achi’s teaching responsibilities include co-directing Integrated Pharmacotherapy IX (Dermatology and Nutrition), Applied Statistical Analysis (computer programming analysis of data), two different compounding courses on sterile and non-sterile, and two electives: Botanical Medicine Seminar and Herbal Medicine.
Al-Achi also teaches several courses in the Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Science (MSPS) program and an Introduction to Botanical Medicine in the honors program for undergraduate students. He routinely oversees MSPS research projects. He also served as the track head for Industrial Pharmaceutics for 20 years, until the MSPS curriculum changed.
He sits on numerous CPHS committees such as the Appointment, Promotion & Tenure Committee, and the Pharmacy Ad-Hoc Board Review Planning Committee. He is a valued member of CPHS and is well respected by students, faculty, and staff. Students have named Al-Achi Professor of the Year numerous times, and the PharmD Class of 2014 established an Endowed Pharmacy Scholarship on Commencement Day (May 9, 2014) under his name. Al-Achi received the 1st prize award from the Yale Publishing Press on writing book proposals during the conference of “Publishing Books, Memoirs and Other Creative Nonfiction” held in Boston, Massachusetts, in March 2007. In October 2007, a faculty office in Maddox Hall was named in his honor. The contribution was made possible by one of Al-Achi’s former students, Dr. Gary Camp (’98 PharmD) and his wife, Karen.
In his free time, Al-Achi enjoys reading history books and watching the news. He has been collecting world-wide stamps since he was seven years old. His father helped start the collection and now Al-Achi has multiple bookshelves full of stamps.
He recently bought an electronic chessboard. “I find chess to be mentally and strategically challenging,” Al-Achi remarked. He went on to equate chess to life and how he applies a similar approach to his courses and student education. Al-Achi challenges students to think several steps ahead and assess potential outcomes based on the development and execution of new medications and treatment plans.
When asked what he loves most about Campbell, Al-Achi shared, “the Christian environment is unique at Campbell. I love that!”
Dr. Stacy Wise Announced as Next Director of the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing
Dr. Stacy Wise joined CPHS as the new director and chair of the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing effective July 20, 2021.
“We are very excited to have Stacy join us to lead the school of nursing,” said Michael L. Adams (’96 PharmD, PhD) dean of the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences. “Her varied background, including military medicine, acute and ambulatory care, as well as academics, and passion for the nursing profession and education make her a great fit for our program.”
Wise was called to be a nurse more than 20 years ago. A proud Navy veteran, she spent 15 years in military medicine. During her career, she has worked in acute care, ambulatory care, patient and staff education, population health, and leadership. She began teaching nursing in 2014 and made the fulltime move to academia in 2015.
She most recently served as chair of the Department of Nursing, director of the MSN/FNP program, and assistant professor of Nursing at the Fresno Pacific University School of Natural Sciences in Fresno, California.
Originally from central California, Wise was introduced to the state of North Carolina when she completed a post-graduate program through Duke University. Her family of four now calls Holly Springs, NC home. Stacy enjoys creating culinary masterpieces while dancing in the kitchen, travelling, writing, and going on walks. She values character, creativity, transparency, humor, and honest communication in all areas of her work and personal life.
Wise received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from California State University Fresno followed by a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. She then earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice from California State University, Northern California Consortium Fresno/San Jose and then completed a Family Nurse Practitioner post-graduate certificate from Duke University.
She said, “I love helping students visualize who they can become and then walking with them as they do it. I am honored and excited to get to do that now as a member of the Campbell family.”
