November 18, 2021
Family Medicine assistant professor Venus Standard's Alliance for Black Doulas for Black Mamas (ABDBM) was recently awarded a $525,000 grant from The Duke Endowment for Black doula training to decrease maternal mortality rates in North Carolina.
October 20, 2021
UNC Horizons, led by Hendree Jones, PhD, is featured in this NC Health feature story titled, "Supporting mothers through addiction as two public health crises converge."
September 29, 2021
Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, has been appointed as a UNC WRHR Scholar. Her primary research is focused on increasing access to cervical cancer prevention in low-income countries.
September 14, 2021
Steven Young, MD, PhD, has been awarded a center grant (P01 mechanism) to establish an Endometriosis Research Center to provide new information and new approaches to this common, yet devastating disease.
August 17, 2021
Neeta L. Vora, MD, Associate Professor and Director of Reproductive Genetics in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, has been awarded $3.4 million for a Research Project Grant (R01) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) toward studying the identification of genes critical to human brain development with validation in a zebrafish model.
August 5, 2021
Kavita Shah Arora, MD, division director of general obstetrics and gynecology, was selected as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics by the United States National Academy of Medicine.
June 23, 2021
A collaboration among the departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Emergency Medicine, and Exercise & Sports Science has received a $2.75 million grant through the Center for Women’s Health Research at UNC to understand early detection of subclinical disease – key to CVD risk stratification and prevention.
May 6, 2021
Chatham Hospital is delivering babies for the first time in 28 years and revitalizing health care in rural North Carolina. Watch the videos from NC Healthcare Association.
March 2, 2021
Kathy Higgins, MS, CNM, will be inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) in May of this year.
December 1, 2020
Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD, FACOG, has been appointed as a Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Scholar. Her work will focus on the health of women involved with the criminal justice system.
October 28, 2020
After 15 years with the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jeff Arscott is retiring effective Nov. 1, 2020. Arscott has served in the role of Vice Chair for Administration since January of 2019.
September 24, 2020
Before the new maternity center at UNC Chatham Hospital opened, some expecting couples had to travel an hour or more to deliver their babies.