November 21, 2019
Five PhD students, who represent three health care disciplines from the UNC School of Medicine Department of Allied Health Sciences (DAHS), have received the 2019 Student Research Ambassador Award, awarded by the department’s Office of Research and Scholarship.
November 21, 2019
A chance conversation with a customer who was a rehabilitation counselor while Hailey Morris worked at a local coffee shop in South Carolina spurred her desire to pursue the profession and to consider graduate school. Today, Morris is a first-year student in the Division of Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling who hopes to become a licensed professional counselor.
February 28, 2019
Jennifer Bidwell is a first-year student in the Physician Assistant Studies program who grew up experiencing the effects of a lack of health care in rural communities. As a student in the class of 2020, she will be equipped to return to a rural environment and to rely on her military training to care for those in need.
October 25, 2018
Jackson Roush, PhD, and Cara McComish, PhD, both faculty within the Department of Allied Health Science's Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, have received two federally funded training grants totaling $1.3 million. The four-year grants will prepare future audiologists and speech-language pathologists to work with children who have autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities, in addition to hearing loss.
August 2, 2018
Sixteen Physician Assistant Studies students provided health care in rural Wise, Virginia, in late June 2018, alongside other practitioners.
June 5, 2018
The $1.2 million gift will be used to accommodate more students, recruit top faculty and develop rural sites for students to participate in clinical rotations.