Cindy Leslie A. Roberson, PharmD, BCACP, CPP is a DukeWELL Clinical Pharmacist wihtin the Duke Population Health Management Office (PHMO). She performs multiple roles at PHMO: she is the pharmacist on interdisciplinary teams for the Duke TeleHOPE (Health Optimization Program for Elders) program, which provides transitions of care through a weekly post-discharge telehealth video conference with participating skilled nursing facilities, and PHMO’s Geriatric, Endocrine, and Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Specialty Case Reviews. Additionally, she reviews medication-related optimization recommendation requests from providers and care managers who work with patients’ clinical care needs in the ambulatory setting. She is an active preceptor for the pharmacy students at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Eshelman School of Pharmacy and offers an American Society of Health System Pharmacist (ASHP)-accredited Longitudinal Transitions of Care Elective for 2nd-year internal medicine pharmacy residents. She is involved in multiple NIH-funded research projects at Duke, such as Falls Assessment of Medications in the Elderly (FAME) and Expanding Technology-Enabled, Nurse-Delivered Chronic Disease Care (EXTEND). She is also involved in the Duke Interprofessional Education Care Center grant award that provides experiential learning on transitions of care. She participates in multiple research committees for PHMO and Duke University Hospital.
Dr. Roberson received her bachelor of science degree at UNC Chapel Hill. She earned a doctor of pharmacy degree from UNC's Eshelman School of Pharmacy and completed a clinical pharmacy residency at Virginia Commonwealth University. After residency, she worked as an assistant professor at Chicago State University College of Pharmacy (CSU-COP) and was involved with development and teaching of required and elective courses, grant-related projects, local and national student organizations, community service programs, and precepted pharmacy students. She then became a clinical pharmacist at Advocate Medical Group, managing chronic disease states for the underserved population. She is board certified in ambulatory care.
She has several publications and has presented her work in various symposia. She has received a Duke Health Great Catch Award, Duke AHEAD Aspire Award, AACP Student Community Engaged Service Award, First Place in Basic Science Research 11th Annual Scripps Conference, Midwest Asian Health Association Community Service Award, Faculty of the Year Academic Award, CSU Seed and Faculty Development Grants, and the NC TraCs Institute Grant Research Award.
Dr. Roberson served as a member in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Research Achievement Award selection, AACP Distinguished Scholarly and Teaching Committee, and American Pharmacist Association (APhA) Therapeutics Advisory Board.