Elisabeth Potts Dellon, MD, MPH, was among four American physicians named yesterday as recipients of the first-ever Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards for exceptional work in end of life care.
Dr. H. Shelton “Shelley” Earp III, the director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at UNC-Chapel Hill was honored Friday (Jan. 8) with the General Alumni Association’s Faculty Service Award.
Nineteen-year-old Lilly Parillo of Asheville, N.C. had a cancer-curing bone marrow transplant at UNC Hospitals. Then, for medical reasons, she was required to stay in Chapel Hill for the next 100 days. SECU Family House gave her a home away from home for that three-month period.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has launched an online tool called the Improvement Map, which serves as a resource to health care organizations in improving quality of care. This tool includes the best knowledge for improving approximately 70 processes in patient care, support services, and leadership/management. It is updated regularly.
The Office of Translational Technologies within the NC TraCS Institute is facilitating a Core Lab Facilities Poster Session on Jan. 26 from noon to 2 p.m. in the lobbies of Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB).
Artist Murry Handler, a patient of Dr. Paula Miller of the UNC Heart Center, donated a piece of artwork titled "Spring Fall" to the Heart Center to show his appreciation for the care he's received over the years.
UNC has joined more than 51 research institutions around the United States in making information about its clinical research trials available on ResearchMatch®, the country’s first registry for recruiting research participants.
The lecture will be held Jan. 27. Edward J. Benz, president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Professor at Harvard Medical School, will be this year's presenter. His talk is entitled, "Mentors, Messages, and the Future of Physician Scientists." Poster and slide presentations by John B. Graham Student Research Society Inductees will follow the lecture.
The Excellence Fund provides Seed Grant Awards to UNC School of Medicine and UNC Hospitals to support innovative research projects which may lead to new treatments and cures for today's diseases. The application deadline is Jan. 28, 2010.
The UNC Comprehensive Cancer Support Program (CCSP), part of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the N.C. Cancer Hospital is launching a new program, Mindfulness for Persons with Cancer or Chronic Illness. The UNC Mindfulness-Based Program for Stress and Pain Management offers a series of 8 classes, training in meditation and mind-body awareness. The program is open to patients and caregivers facing the challenge of cancer or chronic illness.
Please tune in to the Here’s to Your Health radio show on WCHL 1360 AM this weekend for our conversation with Dr. Beat Steiner, from the Department of Family Medicine, about Community Care of North Carolina program.
Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds: Pediatric Palliative Care given by Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH, on Jan. 21, 8 - 9 a.m. in the 4th Floor Clinic Auditorium.
This seminar, presented by Dr. Deborah Jones on Jan. 22., is part of the Health Disparities Seminar Series co-sponsored by the UNC Program on Ethnicity, Culture and Health Outcomes and the Cecil G. Sheps Center.
If you are interested in donating needed items to the relief effort in Haiti, please read the following message from Kirk Huslage, who works in Hospital Epidemiology.
A 7-point magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday, causing widespread death and destruction in an already fragile land. If you are planning to go to Haiti as part of a relief effort, the UNC Medical Center News Office would like to know.
The annual UNC Health Care Martin Luther King, Jr., program is scheduled to take place Friday, Jan. 15, from 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the 4th Floor clinic auditorium. The university is also hosting numerous events Jan. 18 - 23.
Make a new resolution by giving blood at the American Red Cross Blood Drive on Wednesday, Jan. 20 from 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., on the bus located at the back of hospital on Medical Drive.
