Mollie Ashe Scott

2022 Distinguished Service Award Winner

2022 Distinguished Service Award Winner

Mollie Scott is Regional Associate Dean at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Chair of Pharmacotherapy at Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) and holds the rank of Professor at the School of Pharmacy as well as UNC School of Medicine. She oversees the operations of UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Asheville Campus and collaborates with leaders at UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC including UNC School of Medicine, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and UNC Adams School of Dentistry to advance interprofessional primary care and rural health education, practice, and research.

Dr. Scott received a BS in biology from Meredith College and a PharmD at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She completed an ASHP-accredited residency in geriatrics at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Durham, NC, is board certified in ambulatory care, and is a clinical pharmacist practitioner. She developed ambulatory care pharmacy services at Duke University Department of Family and Community Medicine and MAHEC Family Health Center. She oversees the Ambulatory Care Scholars Program at UNC which emphasizes practice management and development of new ambulatory care services and is a preceptor for MAHEC’s PGY2 residency programs in Ambulatory Care and Geriatrics. Her clinical interests include improving access to care, interprofessional practice, and women’s health, and she practices at MAHEC Family Health Center’s interprofessional osteoporosis clinic.

Dr. Scott is an active member of ASHP. She served six years on the Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners’ Executive Committee as Director-at-Large and Chair, Chair of the Committee on Nominations, and is currently a member of the ASHP Advocacy and PAC Advisory Committee, House of Delegates, and Section Advisory Group on Clinical Practice Advancement. Dr. Scott also volunteers with her state affiliate, North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, and served as Chair of the Task Force on Pharmacist Prescribed Hormonal Contraception which led to passage of HB96, allowing pharmacists in NC to initiate hormonal contraception. Dr. Scott is a recognized Fellow of ASHP and a recipient of the Bowl of Hygeia Award. She is the proud mother of two young men, Jacob and Colin, and she and her husband Robert call the mountains of North Carolina home.