August 16, 2022
Margaret Dillon, AuD, PhD, has been named director of clinical research for the Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery. As the director of clinical research, Dillon will support the clinical research efforts of residents, fellows and faculty aimed at advancing the field of otolaryngology/head & neck surgery.
August 15, 2022
The Offices of Medical Student Education seeks a basic/social science co-director for the Foundation Phase (pre-clinical or basic science curriculum), which is the first 1.5 years of the MD curriculum.
July 26, 2022
An ad hoc committee has been appointed to undertake a routine review of the Biomedical Research Imaging Center and the leadership of its Director, Weili Lin, PhD, Dixie Lee Boney Soo Distinguished Professor of Neurological Medicine. The review is a standard procedure of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and will take place on September 13.
July 19, 2022
UNC Physicians and the Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development Office are accepting applications for the UNC Clinical Leadership Program.
July 19, 2022
The Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development Office has partnered with the Pyramid Resource Group’s Healthcare Coaching Institute to create the UNC School of Medicine Coaching Academy.
July 19, 2022
The UNC School of Medicine will host virtual mock interviews from September 19 through October 21 for individualization phase students preparing for residency interviews. Faculty members are needed as volunteers to help students prepare.
July 8, 2022
The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute and FastTraCS are partnering with RTI Innovation Advisors—an RTI International business unit that supports innovators who are developing new products, technologies, and services—to conduct early market testing of your UNC technology or concept.
July 7, 2022
Jeanette Cook, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry. She will begin her work in the role on July 11.
June 28, 2022
The American Hospital Association conducted a long-form video interview with Erin Fraher, PhD, associate professor of family medicine, on important health workforce trends in the United States.
June 22, 2022
Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, is the Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and is the Director of the UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders and an internationally recognized physician-scientist in perinatal depression.
June 17, 2022
Emily Vander Schaaf, MD, MPH, assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, was recently accepted into the 2022 class of the BRIDGES Academic Leadership for Women program. Vander Schaaf will join 35 individuals from varied higher education institutions across North Carolina who comprise the 2022 class.
June 17, 2022
Neva Howard, MD, will step back from her role as the UNC School of Medicine director of learning innovations. She has helped create and launch several programs to support students and has impacted hundreds of students' lives and careers. She will be moving to Colorado where she will take a position as a pediatric emergency physician.