2024 Alumni Awards: Emerging Leader Award Shelby Kolo, '19

Shelby Kolo, Pharm.D. is the quality and safety manager for the acute, critical care and trauma (ACT) Integrated Centers of Clinical Excellence (ICCE) at MUSC, where she facilitates initiatives to improve quality and safety across multiple care settings. She is also a full-time assistant professor of clinical pharmacy and outcomes sciences (CPOS) at the MUSC College of Pharmacy.

As a recipient of the 2024 MUSC College of Pharmacy Emerging Leader Award, Shelby Kolo is one of the college's honorees at MUSC's Alumni Awards Dinner later this month. She will be joined by Distinguished Alumnus Award winners Terry Blackmon, '80, and Tim Vanderveen, ’77.  

“Her ideas and thoughts shared have been immensely useful, practical and well thought out, even on the fly,” said David Shirley, a fellow faculty member in the CPOS department. “I appreciate that she can be so effective at this level in her career. It makes me proud to have had a role in her professional education.”

After graduating from MUSC with her Doctor of Pharmacy degree, she completed a two-year post- doctoral fellowship in healthcare quality at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center. In addition to her impressive pharmacy education, she has earned a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, a certification that teaches problem solving.

Among other responsibilities, Kolo is the college’s preceptor for its industry fellowship with SkinCeuticals, a part of L’Oreal USA’s Active Cosmetics Division. Launched in 2021, the partnership created the state’s first industry fellowship.

2024 Alumni Awards