July 11, 2023
Springer recently released "Chronic Illness Care, Principles and Practice," edited by UNC Family Medicine's Timothy P. Daaleman, DO, MPH, and Margaret R. Helton, MD. Faculty members in the Department of Family Medicine, faculty across the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, and other national and international experts wrote the textbook.
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.
May 5, 2022
The UNC Health Beacon Program and the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program have created a new LMS module to help all staff in all departments provide better trauma informed care for sexual assault survivors.
April 28, 2022
Katrina Donahue, MD, MPH, and Laura Young, MD, PhD, received a grant from the National Institute of Health to increase uptake of diabetes self-management education. The study will focus on two factors: provider and diabetes care and education specialist engagement with patients, and patient peer support.
March 29, 2022
The department's spring newsletter includes stories on the UNC COVID Recovery Clinic, views from the new Acute Inpatient Rehab center in Hillsborough, and new faculty members and advanced practice providers.
March 25, 2022
Ana C. G. Felix, MBBCh, FAAN, has been elected as the American Academy of Neurology's 2022-2023 Vice Chair of the AB Baker Section on Neurological Education.
February 10, 2022
Drs. Katrina Donahue, Jacquie Halladay, Michelle Hernandez, and colleagues published in Health Affairs using the analogy of a watershed to explain the primary care system and how the pandemic has adversely affected its Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs), a vital infrastructure that provides the capacity to assess and improve health outcomes where most people receive care.
January 19, 2022
NC TraCS is currently accepting applications for Phase 1 ACTeR applications. Phase 1 provides up to $5,000 and up to 0.25 FTE Project Manager support for up to 12 months to support team building, mini-symposiums, and idea development (from concept to project outline). One week is left before the submissions deadline!
December 15, 2021
The Eshelman Institute for Innovation recently opened its pre-proposal application for the 2022 annual grant cycle. The Institute seeks to fund translational research related to therapeutics focused on oncology, infectious disease, and neuroscience, including rare diseases, and all digital health technologies. The Institute also welcomes ideas for devices and diagnostics, and other therapeutic areas and services.
September 29, 2021
The Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care will host an interactive mini-symposium exploring mechanisms for predicting how a patient's genome will influence their response to medications, implementing pharmacogenomics in the clinic, and development of EHR support.
September 16, 2021
Series Topic: Can we really advance Health Equity? Five key strategies to consider
September 1, 2021
Register for our annual IHQI Symposium to celebrate the hard work and success of our Improvement Scholars. The Symposium will feature presentations from six clinician-led improvement initiatives.