Mark Derewicz, Author at Newsroom

This virtual training is set up as five, two-hour sessions that will provide participants with an overview of the learning styles of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Structured TEACCHing. Participants will learn strategies to engage school-aged clients in telehealth therapy services as well as antecedent-based behavior management strategies using Structured TEACCHing principles.

UNC toxicologist Phillip Clapp, PhD, and retired nurse leader Ernest Grant, PhD, were featured in this well-sourced AP/Frontline documentary on medical supply issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ernest Grant, RN, PhD, FAAN president of American Nurses Association and an African American, shares why he is participating in COVID-19 vaccine trial at UNC-Chapel Hill.

UNC LMSA Chapter will host Dr. Pablo Serrano, associate professor of abdominal surgery, for a lecture during Hispanic Heritage Month.

WUNC Producer Charlie Shelton-Ormond talks with Cindy Gay, MD, the primary investigator of a Phase 3 clinical trial for a COVID vaccine taking place at UNC-Chapel Hill.

UNC School of Medicine student Nakisa Sadeghi co-wrote a commentary published in The Lancet in the titled “The opioid crisis and the 2020 US election: crossroads for a national epidemic.”

We are pleased to share updates to the UNC Children’s Heart Center. Our overriding mission continues to focus on providing the best family-centered individualized care through a multidisciplinary team approach.

Researchers at Oxford and UNC-Chapel Hill, led by Andrew Moon, MD, MPH, and Sidney Barritt, MD, found increased mortality rates among COVID-19 patients with advanced cirrhosis and alcohol-related liver disease.

UNC School of Medicine research led by Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD, reveal how HIV-1-specific immune cells can recognize viral particles that have the capacity to rebound following interruptions to antiretroviral therapy. The findings have implications for new treatment strategies.

UNC Health and UNC SOM are partnering with Novant and NHRMC to include an expanded relationship with UNC Health for pediatric specialty services and the UNC School of Medicine

Frances Ligler, PhD, was presented the prestigious Simon Ramo Founders Award on October 3 at the National Academy of Engineering’s 2020 Annual Meeting.

For the first time, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named two clinical scholars from the same institution to two different health provider teams in the same year: Crystal Wiley Cené, MD, MPH, and Thava Mahadevan, MS.

Author Archives: Mark Derewicz

TEACCH Autism Program Virtual Training: The Fundamentals of Structured TEACCHing in a Therapeutic Setting

Clapp, Grant Featured in Frontline Documentary, ‘America’s Medical Supply Crisis’

‘Someone who looks like you’

Serrano to Deliver Annual CHARLA Lecture October 9

Cindy Gay Featured on NPR to Talk Vaccines

Sadeghi Co-authors Commentary in The Lancet

Message from Janet Hadar & Matt Mauro: Updates to the UNC Children’s Heart Center

Patients with Cirrhosis at Increased Risk of Death from COVID-19

How immune cells can recognize, control HIV when therapy is interrupted

County Commissioners Approve Sale of New Hanover Regional Medical Center to Novant Health

Ligler Receives Simon Ramo Founders Award from National Academy of Engineering

Cené, Mahadevan Named 2020 RWJF Clinical Scholars