Weeda named 2021 MUSC Foundation Teaching Excellence Award recipient

Clinical faculty member Erin Weeda has been named recipient of the 2021 MUSC Foundation Teaching Excellence Award: Developing Teacher, an enterprise-wide honor of an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the University’s teaching mission.

She will be recognized at the James W. Colbert Lectureship and Faculty Awards & Recognition Ceremony, which will be held on August 17, 2021, at 4:30 PM in Drug Discovery Auditorium. In addition, she will receive a cash award of $3,000 and a specially-designated parking space for one year – a considerable advantage in downtown Charleston.

A popular professor, she has been honored in the past as the MUSC College of Pharmacy Overall Teacher of the Year, P3 Teacher of the Year, and Mentor of the Year.

“Dr. Weeda brings a special spark to her instruction that really connects with students,” said Philip D. Hall, dean of the MUSC College of Pharmacy. “We’re proud to have her on faculty and delighted the enterprise is recognizing her outstanding ability.”

The selection criteria for the Teaching Excellence Award: Developing Teacher include knowledge, teaching skills, rapport and impact on learners, and modeling professional characteristics.

After earning her Pharm.D. at the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy in 2014, Weeda served a post-graduate year one residency at Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center in Houston and then as Health Economics and Outcomes Research Fellow at the University of Connecticut and Hartford Hospital. She also served as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy. A board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist, she has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications. She joined the MUSC College of Pharmacy in 2017.

Weeda joins a growing roster of College of Pharmacy colleagues to have won a Teaching Excellence Award, including in recent years Yuri Peterson (2019), Pat Woster (2018), David Shirley (2018), Jason Haney (2017), Scott Bragg (2016) and James Sterrett (2016).