September 26, 2018
UNC researchers led by Arlene Chung, MD, MHA, reviewed more than 300 apps in the health and fitness categories of app stores for hands-free, voice-activated assistants, including Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant; they found very few had a clear health focus.
September 20, 2018
Moe Lim, MD, has been named Associate Chief Medical Officer for Surgical Services. In this role, Lim will provide senior medical leadership to perioperative practice across the UNC Medical Center, including perioperative areas at the UNC Medical Center and the Ambulatory Surgery Center.
September 20, 2018
A web page has been developed to share information about the UNC School of Medicine’s ongoing strategic planning process.
September 13, 2018
Trauma surgeon Anthony Charles, MD, MPH, has been named the Director of Global Surgery for the UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases.
September 13, 2018
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill HIV Cure Center and Cell Microsystems, a provider of innovative tools and scalable solutions for the sorting and isolation of single cells, announced they have received an approximately $283,000, 12-month Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an automated platform to quantify the latent HIV reservoir.
September 13, 2018
The UNC School of Medicine’s Class of 2022 received their white coats at the annual event.
September 13, 2018
Several members of the Class of 2019 were recently inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), a national medical honor society dedicated to improving care for all by recognizing students’ commitments to scholarship, leadership, service, professionalism, and humanism in medicine.
September 13, 2018
UNC Medical Center has activated our Emergency Operations Plan and Incident Management Team to a Tier 1 per the Adverse Weather Policy and the Outpatient Services Weather Policy in preparation for Hurricane Florence. Updates will be shared throughout the event.
September 5, 2018
At his retirement ceremony on Aug. 13, Harold C. Pillsbury, MD, was honored with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, among the highest honors awarded in the state of North Carolina.
August 30, 2018
Stephanie Duggins Davis, MD, began her new role as Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Physician in Chief at NC Children’s Hospital in late July. It’s a return home for the North Carolina native who previously spent 12 years as a member of the pediatrics faculty.
August 23, 2018
The UNC School of Medicine is seeking an educator with passion for medical student education and curriculum design who has an understanding of what fourth-year medical students need in the last several months to prepare for residency. The co-director will work closely with the other Transition to Residency co-director and staff to refine the curriculum of the four-week long Transitions to Residency (TTR) course.
August 23, 2018
Gary Beck Dallaghan, PhD, has joined the UNC School of Medicine’s Office of Medical Education as the Director of Educational Scholarship. Beck Dallaghan comes to Chapel Hill from the University of Nebraska Medical Center where he served as Assistant Dean for Medical Education.