March 29, 2019
Newsweek Lists UNC Medical Center & UNC REX Among World’s Best Hospitals
UNC Medical Center is ranked #50 in the United States, UNC REX is #148 on Newsweek’s inaugural list of The World’s Best Hospitals.
March 29, 2019
UNC Medical Center is ranked #50 in the United States, UNC REX is #148 on Newsweek’s inaugural list of The World’s Best Hospitals.
March 13, 2019
Christina M. Cruz, MD, an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry, created a new school mental health system that is being piloted in the Darjeeling Hills of India.
March 13, 2019
Melina Kibbe, MD, Colin G. Thomas Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery, was honored with the 12th Annual Women Leaders in Medicine Award from the American Medical Student Association. Kibbe was nominated by Perry Tsai, MD, PhD, National President of the American Medical Student Association and recent MD and PhD graduate from the UNC School of Medicine.
March 13, 2019
Each year, the UNC Graduate School honors students around the university with awards celebrating their work.
March 12, 2019
In the annual rankings of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” U.S. News & World Report ranked UNC School of Medicine 1st for primary care, 23rd in research, 4th for family medicine, 9th for rehabilitation counseling, 11th for obstetrics and gynecology, 20th for psychiatry, and 26th for internal medicine.
March 7, 2019
Todd Cohen, PhD, and Jonathan Schisler, PhD, will investigate the new ideas related to the regulation of the Tau protein, which plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease.
February 21, 2019
The newest study conducted by a team at UNC Surgery finds that 58 percent of women surgeons experience sexual harassment. The currently unpublished project, presented at the recent Academic Surgical Congress, examines the scope of sexual harassment experienced by surgeons.
February 21, 2019
Anil Kishin Gehi, MD, associate professor of medicine in the division of cardiology, has been awarded the Sewell Family-McAllister Distinguished Professorship in Electrophysiology. The professorship is designed to recognize an outstanding clinician, teacher, and scholar, who is a leader in the field of electrophysiology, from the division of cardiology and the UNC McAllister Heart Institute.
February 13, 2019
The UNC Department of Emergency Medicine received its first and second R01 grants last week. Dr. Tim Platts-Mills received a grant to conduct a clinical trial of a shared decision making intervention to improve pain management in older adults; Dr. Michelle Meyer received an award to study stiffening of the arteries as a risk factor for end-organ damage to the brain among Hispanic and Latino adults.
January 24, 2019
The UNC Computational Medicine Program and the SOM Office of Research announce the winners of the first annual Computational Medicine Pilot Grant Awards.
January 17, 2019
Abi Kalicicki is a Human Services Program Technician at Wakebrook Primary Care. She was featured in this week’s edition of Carolina People.
January 17, 2019
The Office of Graduate Education and Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development recognized 10 faculty members with Excellence in Basic Science Mentoring Awards this week.