July 18, 2024
In this Vital Signs series, we feature UNC School of Medicine recent graduate Heather Swain, from Timberlake, NC. Dr. Swain's journey into medicine began at an early age. She explains how rural residents, like her family, experience barriers in healthcare and why she is striving to help improve access to North Carolinians.
July 17, 2024
Anahita Gupta and Esther Lee are among 13 medical students selected as 2024 Gold Student Summer Fellows.
July 17, 2024
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday, July 12, 2024.
July 10, 2024
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday, July 5, 2024.
July 8, 2024
Christopher Jensen, MD, MSCR, assistant professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine, received the CLL Society’s 2024 Integrative Medicine Award. The grant is for Jensen’s research project, “Combating Cancer-Related Fatigue: A Personalized Supportive Care Program.”
July 3, 2024
This year’s match results show that only 91.8% of pediatric residency slots were successfully filled by programs compared to a higher percentage in years past. This ongoing outcome has many physicians in the field worried about the declining interest in pediatric subspecialties. Katherine Jordan, MD, and Priyanka Rao, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine wrote a JAMA perspective piece asking, “Where are all the pediatricians?”
July 3, 2024
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday, June 29 2024.
June 28, 2024
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is launching a first-in-human clinical trial to determine the safety and efficacy of an experimental monoclonal antibody against enterovirus D68 (EV-D68). UNC School of Medicine’s Matthew Vogt, MD, PhD, was a postdoctoral fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at VUMC when he co-led the development of monoclonal antibody therapies against EV-D68.
June 26, 2024
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday, June 21 2024.
June 26, 2024
June is National Men’s Health Month: The report serves as a call to action for local and state organizations as well as the public, to seek important changes that can have far-reaching, positive impacts on the health of North Carolinians.
June 20, 2024
To raise awareness and assist couples with job searches, UNC-Chapel Hill researchers launched an evidence-based tool showing how research-intensive institutions rank in partner hiring – providing insights on where they may be excelling and where they may be deficient. Jill Fisher, PhD, professor of social medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, co-led the project.
June 19, 2024
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday, June 14 2024.