August 28, 2024
Newsworthy from the School of Medicine, Week of August 23 – August 29
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday, August 23, 2024.
Category: News
August 27, 2024
North Carolina Surgical Hospital Now Open
State-of-the-art facility opens after five years of construction.
August 26, 2024
Personalized Brain Stimulation Significantly Decreases Depression Symptoms
In a small pilot study, UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Flavio Frohlich, PhD, used a new closed-loop system to measure the electrical brain patterns of individual patients and then stimulate those patterns with a weak electrical current, resulting in significantly improved symptoms of major depressive disorder.
August 26, 2024
Researchers Highlight Need for Published Validation Data as Artificial Intelligence is Thrust into Patient Care
Through an analysis of 500+ FDA-authorized AI medical devices, Sammy Chouffani El Fassi, a MD candidate at the UNC School of Medicine and researcher at Duke Heart Center, and Gail E. Henderson, PhD, professor of social medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, discovered a lack of published clinical validation data for many authorized devices and established a standard for medical AI validation.
August 23, 2024
Researchers Find E-Cigarette Use Disrupts Nasal Microbiome
A new study led by Elise Hickman, PhD, and Ilona Jaspers, PhD, director of the UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology at the UNC School of Medicine, suggests that e-cigarette and cigarette use changes the microbiome in the nose and makes users more susceptible to respiratory diseases and infections.
August 23, 2024
Why one health system thinks its new PBM can disrupt the market
This article was published in Modern Healthcare on August 23, 2024. To read it, click on the link below.
August 21, 2024
Five Questions with Uty Utin
UNC School of Medicine 4th-year student Uty Utin, originally from Nigeria, has lived in North Carolina since he was 5-years-old. As a youth with a penchant more for music than medicine, it wasn’t until a trip to Central America that his interest in medicine was sparked.
August 21, 2024
Racial Inclusivity in Neuroscience: Rodriguez-Romaguera Shares Lessons Learned in Mentor-Mentee Relationships
Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera, PhD, assistant professor at the UNC Neuroscience Center, co-authored a perspective piece in Neuron about the critical role of mentor-mentee relationships, especially for those who come from racially underrepresented groups like himself.
August 21, 2024
Newsworthy from the School of Medicine, Week of August 16 – August 22
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday, August 16, 2024.
August 19, 2024
UNC Health Employees to ‘Stuff’ Buses with School Supplies for Local Students
Back-to-school drive will support students in Wake, Orange, Durham and Chatham counties
August 16, 2024
UNC MD/PhD Program Celebrates 25 Years as an NIH-funded Medical Scientist Training Program
The UNC MD/PhD Program received five more years of T32 funding from the NIH/NIGMS as a Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), securing NIH funding through June 2029 and increasing the number of MD/PhD training slots from 16 to 21.
August 14, 2024
Latest Grant Awards to SOM Faculty
The following is a list of new grants awarded to SOM faculty with project start dates in June of 2024 (the awards listed have a total award amount greater than $100,000).