Jennifer Askew Buxton, BS, PharmD, CPP, FASHP, PNCAP

Dr. Buxton, a former CFHN Board member and currently the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Pharmacy Officer at one of our partner clinics, Cape Fear Clinic, is a North Carolina native, and received her Doctorate of Pharmacy from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a Primary Care Residency with Coastal AHEC and New Hanover Regional Medical Center.

She is the winner of the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ASHP) Distinguished Service Award, the 2008 North Carolina Association of Pharmacists (NCAP) Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award, the 2014 WILMA Magazine Woman to Watch Award in Healthcare, and the Healthcare Heroes Healthcare Professional of the Year Award for 2014.

She has been recognized as the Wingate University School of Pharmacy Preceptor of the Year (2014) and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Hospital Preceptor of the Year (2008).  The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) also recognized Dr. Buxton as a Master Preceptor in 2016 for her exemplary work in training and mentoring future pharmacists.

Dr. Buxton has held both local and national leadership positions with ASHP, NCAP, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), and American Pharmacists Association (APhA). She has served several terms on the NCAP Board of Directors, including a term as President, and has participated in both the ASHP and APhA Houses of Delegates.

A volunteer with Cape Fear Clinic since 2003 and having served on the Board of Directors from 2006 to 2011, Dr. Buxton became their first staff Director of Pharmacy in 2011.  She maintains a clinical practice at Cape Fear Clinic and serves as the Co-Director of their nationally recognized Mental Health Services program.

She is the author of From Student to Pharmacist: Making the Transition, published in 2010.