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Our Carolina Care Highlight this week recognizes Dr. Onyinye Iweala from the Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology. Here's what one of Dr. Iweala's patients had to say: "I see a lot of doctors and she is, by far, one of the best. Not only is she good at what she does but she actually listens, she takes note of even the tiny details, she gives you her very best, and she always explains things extremely well..."

Raven Voora, MD, and Alan Lee Hinderliter, MD

The UNC Hypertension Clinic at Meadowmont has been awarded the American Heart Association’s Comprehensive Hypertension Center Certification to recognize the practice’s commitment to following proven, research-based treatment guidelines to care for people with complex or difficult-to-treat hypertension, or high blood pressure.

See what's new in the UNC Department of Neurology with updates from the department's February newsletter.

The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) is accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) to support creative scientists from all relevant scientific disciplines to provide them robust and sustained support to explore bold and paradigm-shifting ideas that could lead to ground-breaking discoveries in lupus research. The Distinguished Innovator Awards provide outstanding scientists with substantial support to conduct novel research into the fundamental causes of systemic lupus erythematosus and so provide new directions towards a cure. Award amount up to $250,000 per year for up to four (4) years. The LOI deadline is March 16, 2020.

From left to right: Dr. Amy Shaheen (AOE President) and Dr. Ellen Roberts (Recipient of the Educational Scholarship Award in 2019)

The UNC School of Medicine Academy of Educators (AOE) is soliciting nominations for this year’s Teaching Awards. Submit a nomination for an outstanding faculty member by Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 11:59 PM. Nominees do not have to be members of the Academy.

The UNC Center for Women’s Health Research is continually seeking ways to promote the essential work being done by researchers in alignment with our mission: Learning about diseases, disorders, and conditions that uniquely affect women, predominantly affect women, and affect women differently than men.

The Department of Allied Health Sciences Office of Research and Scholarship is pleased to announce its third and final round of pilot funding for the Sleep Innovation Research Grant (SIRG) program.

Tutors are needed for the Patient Centered Care course in the UNC School of Medicine. The course enables students to learn the core clinical skills—History-Taking, Physical Examination, Communication, Clinical Reasoning, Patient-Centered Care, and Professionalism— necessary for future patient care.

UNC has expanded its partnership with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua-León (UNAN) to include the development of a PhD program housed at UNAN.

Evan Ashkin, MD, and Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, will serve as local co-hosts for the 13th annual Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health (ACCJH) conference to be held in Raleigh April 2 and April 3, 2020.

Craig Cameron, PhD, Folami Ideraabdullah, PhD, and Genevieve Neal-Perry, MD, PhD

Craig Cameron, Folami Ideraabdullah, and Genevieve Neal-Perry, were selected as part of a feature on CrossTalk, a subsidiary of Cell Press geared toward a general audience.

This new treatment was developed after years of research, much of it spearheaded and completed by Wesley Burks, MD, and Edwin Kim, MD at the UNC School of Medicine.

Monthly Archives: February 2020

Carolina Care Highlight: Dr. Onyinye Iweala

UNC Hypertension Clinic Becomes a Certified Comprehensive Hypertension Center

UNC Neurology News: February 2020

Lupus Research Alliance: Dr. William E. Paul Distinguished Innovator Award in Lupus and Autoimmunity

Call for UNC SOM Teaching Award Nominations

Women’s Health Research Poster Presentation and Awards Program

$10,000 Pilot Funding Opportunity Available for Sleep Research through Department of Allied Health Sciences

Currently Seeking Patient Centered Care Tutors

UNC Program in Nicaragua expands partnership with addition of PhD program

UNC faculty to co-host 13th annual ACCJH Conference

Cell Press Publishes List of 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America

FDA approves first drug for treatment of peanut allergy for children