April 8, 2026
Eldad Hadar, MD, clinical professor and vice chair of the department of neurosurgery, is leaving after nearly 25 years with UNC Health to join the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Since joining UNC in 2001, he has played a major role in shaping the department of neurosurgery, fostering collaboration and clinical innovation while helping train the next generation of physicians.
December 12, 2025
The Carolina MEdIC program at UNC Health offers North Carolina-based military medics, nurses, and physicians on-the-job training in the emergency department, as well as the burn and surgical units at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill.
April 3, 2025
PRISM, a UNC School of Medicine and BioSTAR initiative, offers "Bright Futures in Science and Medicine" for postbac students. Apply by May 1 (Summer) or July 1 (Fall) 2025!
March 20, 2025
UNC-Chapel Hill Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences Dr. Stephanie Sjoblad was recently awarded the Outstanding Educator Award from the American Academy of Audiology. The award is given by asking colleagues, friends, and mentees in their professional circles to nominate colleagues who deserve recognition for outstanding service to audiology and the hearing sciences.
July 24, 2024
The AOE website has more information, including how to apply. Applications are due August 16th.
June 19, 2024
Headspace, the popular wellness app, is available to UNC Health Employees, a partnership highlighted in a two-part episode of the TarHeal Wellness podcast exploring the partnership and available resources, including evidence-based meditation and mindfulness tools, mental health coaching, therapy, psychiatry, and family support.
June 19, 2024
The Academy of Educators, housed within the School of Medicine’s Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development, has recognized 27 faculty and trainee members with teaching awards.
May 15, 2024
The University Libraries has a new website: https://library.unc.edu/health-sciences/ Because the new site is designed to be more intuitive for first-time users, some resources and service requests on the Health Sciences Library's web site might be in different places. Existing website links are now redirecting to the appropriate page on the new site.
May 15, 2024
Brooke Matson, Jeremy Meier, Brittany Raffa, and Shivani Sud will receive support from the UNC School of Medicine Physician Scientists Training Program to cultivate their careers as translational clinical scientists.
March 24, 2024
Congratulations to the UNC School of Medicine MD Class of 2024, which celebrated their achievements in Roper Hall, the school's new medical education building named after former Dean Bill Roper.
March 20, 2024
A new study, led by Ana T. Nogueira, PhD, Rebekah Layton, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine and collaborators from the NIH Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (NIH BEST) consortium, examined career confidence in graduate and postdoctoral trainees and explored how to better support international trainees across a diverse array of career paths.
December 15, 2023
UNC-Chapel Hill was recently named a National HIV Residency Pathway Consortium Site and awarded a year-long, $68,000 grant to support its efforts in training family medicine and internal medicine residents in caring for people with HIV. UNC’s site Investigators, Rick Moore, MD, and Louise Rambo King, MD, have a storied history of caring for patients with HIV.