June 21, 2018
Over the course of two weekends, the UNC Family Medicine Summer Academy hosted a total of 14 recent high school graduates from rural North Carolina. All of these students have an interest in a future career in medicine.
June 20, 2018
Motivated by an increase in her blood sugar levels, blood pressure, and family medical history, UNC Healthcare employee Elaine Rogers began decreasing sugar and carbs in her diet and exercising more regularly. After losing 15 pounds, she hit a plateau. “I was bored of doing it on my own” she remembers, which is when she began looking for additional ideas to help reach her weight loss goals.
June 14, 2018
IHQI has selected six projects that will be supported through the Improvement Scholars Program.
June 14, 2018
The newest project from the department of medicine’s Value Care Action Group (VCAG) is better serving patients with early heart failure while also reducing visits to the ED and subsequent hospitalizations.
June 14, 2018
The Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development, along with the Nominating Committee, is delighted to announce the results of the 2018 School of Medicine Standing Committee Elections.
June 14, 2018
Li Wang, PhD, research associate in the Qian Lab and a member of UNC McAllister Heart Institute, has received the prestigious Career Development Award from the AHA. The award is given to highly promising young scientists in their early years to explore innovative questions in the field of cardiovascular research.
June 14, 2018
Dr. Sriram Machineni joins the UNC department of medicine’s division of endocrinology and metabolism to build a chronic care model for treating obesity.
June 14, 2018
A study led by UNC’s Sylvia Becker-Dreps, MD, MPH, reviewed more than 675,000 pregnancies in the U.S. to determine if the Tdap vaccine given to a mother will reduce the chances of her child developing pertussis during the first 18 months of life. The results show a decrease in overall cases of pertussis, and most notably, in pertussis hospitalization in infants whose mothers were immunized during pregnancy.
June 14, 2018
Both awards recognize the implementation of specific quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks.
June 14, 2018
For patients with end-stage chronic lung disease, every breath is tiresome and difficult. When the disease is no longer responsive to medical therapies, a lung transplant is a possibility for patients under the age of 70. Frank Sands is breathing new life after a double lung transplant. To show his gratitude, he made a financial gift to create an endowed professorship, supporting the future of UNC’s Lung Transplant Program.
June 12, 2018
UNC researchers led by Frank Conlon, PhD, shed light on how gene defects lead to congenital heart malformations.
June 8, 2018
We are excited to share a preview of a new UNC Health Care brand campaign that will launch in the Triangle on June 8 and across the state this fall.