January 30, 2020
The Physician Assistant Studies program welcomed twenty students to the class of 2021. This year's cohort of students is one-quarter veterans, and nearly forty percent were raised in a medically underserved area.
January 28, 2020
The 90 Seconds With… series has been on air for one year. This episode commemorates the news, information, and Forward Together updates the series has delivered over the past year in the School of Medicine.
January 28, 2020
Among 34 Pay-for-Performance Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations
January 24, 2020
UNC Children’s Raleigh clinic and a new pediatrics wing at UNC REX Hospital will improve care for kids.
January 23, 2020
Call for survey participants to assess the presence of mental health stigma within health care providers at UNC Medical Center. Participation in this survey is anonymous and voluntary.
January 23, 2020
The UNC Beacon Program is looking for any UNC Hospital or Medical School Employees who have a passion for helping patients who have experienced any form of intimate partner violence.
January 23, 2020
Todd Cohen and Jonathan Schisler — a neuroscientist and a heart researcher — began working together in 2016 after meeting for coffee in Marsico Hall. By combining their expertise in protein studies, they strive to develop a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
January 23, 2020
The Department of Allied Health Sciences (DAHS) has named John Grose as its associate chair for research and scholarship, which leads research across seven disciplines and several units in the health care spectrum. Grose, a professor in both the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) and in the DAHS Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, began this role January 1, 2020.
January 22, 2020
Overcoming HIV latency – induction of HIV in CD4+ T cells that lay dormant throughout the body – is a major step toward creating a cure for HIV. For the first time, scientists at UNC-Chapel Hill, Emory University, and Qura Therapeutics – a partnership between UNC and ViiV Healthcare – have shown that a new approach can expose latent HIV to attack in two different animal model systems with little or no toxicity.
January 22, 2020
Our Carolina Care Highlight this week recognizes Dr. David Berkoff from the Department of Orthopaedics. Here's what one of Dr. Berkoff's patients had to say: "Dr. Berkoff really seemed to listen and took a good amount of time to investigate what could be the main cause of my condition. Within a few days of following his advice I began to feel some relief in pain. Very impressed with is knowledge and bedside manner..."
January 16, 2020
Join the Women’s Leadership Collaborative (a UNC Medical Center Employee Resource Group) on February 13 for a unique opportunity to network with executive leaders in an intimate setting.
January 16, 2020
Starting Feb. 1, the concourse that runs between the Memorial Hospital lobby and the Children's Hospital lobby will be closed. During this time, Skanska will be connecting existing infrastructure to infrastructure that will service the UNC Surgical Tower when it is complete, and will be creating more seating for the Terrace Café. The closure is expected to last at least 8 months.