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Save the date for the School of Medicine Wellness Week to be held November 18th – 22nd. There will be a variety of events held, including a visiting professor keynote and book signing with Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, from the NYU School of Medicine. Poster abstracts are being accepted until 11:59PM on October 25, 2019.


Save the date for the School of Medicine Wellness Week to be held November 18th – 22nd. There will be a variety of events held, including a visiting professor keynote and book signing with Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, from the NYU School of Medicine. Poster abstracts are being accepted until 11:59PM on October 25, 2019.

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Save the date for the 2019 School of Medicine Wellness Week sponsored by the School of Medicine Well-Being Committee.

There will be a variety of events throughout the week of November 18th—22nd, including:

  • Scholarship Expo, Visiting Professor talk, and reception and book signing with Dr. Danielle Ofri of NYU School of Medicine on November 19 from 3-6PM in the Koury Oral Health Sciences Building
  • Multidisciplinary Grand Rounds on November 20 from 7-8AM in Bondurant G100 and Old Clinic 4008
  • Faculty Pub Night on November 21 from 5-7PM in the Beach Cafe

More events to be announced soon. Contact facultyaffairs@med.unc.edu with questions.

Learn more about the visiting professor, Dr. Ofri, below.


Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, is a physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, and a faculty member of NYU School of Medicine. She writes about medicine and the doctor-patient connection for the New York Times, Slate Magazine, and other publications.

Dr. Ofri is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, the first literary journal to arise from a medical setting. She is the author of a collection of books about the world of medicine, including “What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear”, “What Doctors Feel”, and “Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients”.

Read more about Dr. Ofri.