April 19, 2018
Byerley named WCHL Hometown Hero
Julie Byerley, MD, MPH, Vice Dean for Education and Chief Education Officer at the UNC School of Medicine, has been named a Hometown Hero by WCHL Radio in Chapel Hill.
April 19, 2018
Julie Byerley, MD, MPH, Vice Dean for Education and Chief Education Officer at the UNC School of Medicine, has been named a Hometown Hero by WCHL Radio in Chapel Hill.
April 12, 2018
J. Victor Garcia, PhD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Global Health and Infectious Disease, is the 2018 recipient of the Opendra Narayan Lecture.
March 29, 2018
During the week of April 8 – 14, the Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development and the Integrated Wellness Initiative will be hosting a number of Physician Appreciation events.
March 29, 2018
The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation is accepting applications from investigators to fund research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer. Project relevance to cancer detection, treatment or cure should be clearly defined. Award amount varies. The application deadline is April 30, 2018.
March 20, 2018
In the organization’s annual rankings of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” U.S. News & World Report ranked UNC School of Medicine 1st in primary care, 23rd in research, and 14th for obstetrics and gynecology.
March 16, 2018
We spoke to a few students about this pivotal day, their reflections on their time at the UNC School of Medicine, and their feelings as they enter the next phases of their careers.
March 8, 2018
Three exemplary physician-scientists at the UNC School of Medicine – David Margolis, MD, Ada Adimora, MD, MPH, and Janet Rubin, MD – have been named Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professors.
March 1, 2018
Shelton Earp, MD, has been named director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Earp has served as interim director since June 2017, a role he accepted after Norman E. “Ned” Sharpless, MD, UNC Lineberger’s director since January 2014, was nominated to become the director of the National Cancer Institute.
February 12, 2018
In the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings, pharmacology and toxicology were lumped into one category and ranked first among public universities. Among all universities around the globe, UNC pharmacology/toxicology ranked second behind Harvard.
February 6, 2018
One great performance earned Angela Smith a music scholarship to UNC. She’s been in Chapel Hill ever since. Now, as a urologic oncologist, she’s developing an app to ensure her patients get the right information, right on time. Her work has earned her a Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine.
January 4, 2018
Autism Speaks, Spectrum, and the NIH singled out innovative work from Joseph Piven’s research team as top studies advancing the field of autism research in 2017.
December 7, 2017
UNC Lineberger’s Claire Dees, MD, is one of the country’s top 27 breast oncologists, according to Forbes magazine.