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The UNC School of Medicine Novant Health Charlotte Campus will provide UNC curriculum to third- and fourth-year medical students, with a special focus on health equity led by Novant Health.

It is the first scientific article looking at breakthrough cases among vaccinated people in a correctional setting.

In this town hall, sponsored by Duke Health and UNC Health, we’ll be discussing how federal policy, state policy, and public-private partnership opportunities can support advancing innovations in health to create pathways to opportunity and economic security.

Arlene M. Davis, JD, will be new director of the UNC Center for Bioethics at the UNC School of Medicine starting July 1. The center’s previous director, Eric Juengst, PhD, will continue as a professor in the departments of Social Medicine and Genetics and as a core faculty member in the Center.

Edward L. Barnes, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the UNC Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, is lead author of a new manuscript published online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. Millie D. Long, MD, MPH, associate professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, is the manuscript's senior author.

The Society’s Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture is a prestigious biennial lecture, awarded to distinguished physiologists working outside the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland.

UNC Children’s is nationally ranked in seven subspecialties, two in the top 25.

The article examines the differences in premature stroke mortality in terms of between-county disparity in the US.

Collaboration will expand local access to more high-quality specialty services

No other healthcare system in North Carolina makes the top 10 for “most trusted” in this year’s edition, and no other North Carolina system cracks the top 30 in the overall rankings.

Researchers from the Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, UNC's Department of Genetics, and Yale University have teamed up to narrow down areas of the genome previously marked relevant to schizophrenia risk.

UNC Medical Center, UNC REX, Nash, Pardee and Lenoir receive A grades

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UNC School of Medicine Novant Health Charlotte Campus receives positive evaluation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education

Brinkley-Rubinstein, Peterson Publish Research Letter in NEJM

Future of Tech Commission Town Hall: APublic Discussion on Leveraging Technology to Accelerate Innovation in Health Systems (Virtual Event)

Davis Named Director of UNC Center for Bioethics

Barnes Is Lead Author of Study in Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Tarran to give The Physiological Society’s Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture

UNC Children’s Named to U.S. News’ “Best Children’s Hospitals” for 13th Straight Year

Smith Co-Authors Article in JAMA Network Open

CarolinaEast Health System Signs Affiliation Agreement with UNC Health

UNC Health Ranked #2 Most Trusted Healthcare Brand in the US

With $8-million Grant, Researchers Aim to Better Understand Disease Mechanisms of Schizophrenia

UNC Health Hospitals Earn Top Safety Grades from Leapfrog Group