June 7, 2023
Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, traveled to the White House on June 1 for the Cancer Moonshot Smoking Cessation Forum. The meeting highlighted the Biden Administration’s commitment to tackling the single biggest driver of cancer deaths in this country—smoking—and efforts underway across sectors to equitably expand access to effective smoking cessation support.
May 18, 2023
Mental health disorders, specifically depression, and anxiety, are among the top five chronic conditions contributing to overall healthcare costs in the United States and rank first in global disease burden in terms of years lived with a disability1. Individuals with mental illness have higher rates of chronic disease including cardiovascular disease, asthma, diabetes, and cancer, …
April 10, 2023
UNC School of Medicine’s Alex K. Gertner, MD, PhD, and Beat D. Steiner, MD, MPH, led a study on a new “enhanced primary care” model which resulted in lower blood pressure and hemoglobin A1c and increased screening for people with severe mental illness.
March 30, 2023
Kimberly Shoenbill, MD, PhD, has been named the new director of the UNC Clinical Informatics Fellowship.
March 29, 2023
Leah Ranney, PhD, MA, associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, and Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, professor and director of Departmental Advancement at the UNC Department of Family Medicine, led a first-in-kind study showing how tobacco warnings can improve considerably to follow proposed WHO FCTC guidelines.
February 2, 2023
Narges Farahi, MD, MPH, of UNC Family Medicine is PI for a grant to develop and test a holistic polycystic ovary syndrome management program within a federally qualified health center. An interdisciplinary group of co-investigators from UNC OB-GYN, UNC School of Social Work, Piedmont Health, GWU and the Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health are co-PIs.
January 25, 2023
Rural hospitals and healthcare facilities face amplified financial challenges amid persisting workforce shortages, rising costs and leveling reimbursement. Cristen Page, MD, executive dean of the UNC School of Medicine shares ideas with Becker's Hospital Review on how to to save rural healthcare.
January 19, 2023
UNC Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program faculty Justin Byron, PhD, Chineme Enyioha, MD, MPH, and Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, have published a lead commentary in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research outlining the communication research needed to accompany landmark regulation banning menthol in tobacco products.
January 4, 2023
Lana Nasrallah, MPH, RD, LDN, clinical dietician in the Department of Family Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine shares her expertise as a panelist for the US News & World Report 2023 Best Diet Reports.
November 22, 2022
Jacqueline Halladay, MD, MPH, from UNC Family Medicine, and Doyle “Skip” Cummings, PharmD, from the ECU Brody School of Medicine, are leading a five-year, $5.6 million PCORI grant to understand if a technology-enabled team-based approach results in greater blood pressure control compared to usual care in populations of people with uncontrolled high blood pressure.
November 9, 2022
Sarah Kowitt, PhD, MPH, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Family Medicine, was recently awarded a five-year, $762,196 grant by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01 grant) focuses on tobacco regulatory research in youth, specifically on how to communicate the harms of multiple tobacco products that youth may be using—referred to as multiple tobacco product (MTP) use—instead of just one product at a time.
November 9, 2022
Chineme Enyioha, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Family Medicine, was recently awarded a K23 Career Development Award for a study entitled, “Development of a prototype for a mobile health intervention for smoking cessation with features culturally adapted for African American smokers.” Enyioha will focus her work on creating a mobile cessation system specifically targeted at African American smokers.