June 6, 2019
Wu named Interim Chair of Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Jennifer Wu, MD, MPH, has been named interim Chair of the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, effective July 1, 2019.
Category: Obstetrics and Gynecology
October 25, 2018
Clarke-Pearson to step down as chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Daniel Clarke-Pearson, MD, Robert A. Ross Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, will step down from his position as chair effective July 1, 2019. He will remain on faculty, focusing his attention on caring for women with gynecological cancers, teaching, and mentoring.
June 14, 2018
UNC Study: Tdap Vaccine Given During Pregnancy Reduces Occurrence of Infant Pertussis
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.
April 18, 2017
UNC Horizons: Two decades of healing moms and babies
In the first of this two-part series, we feature the men and women behind the scenes, the health care providers dedicated to saving future generations from the vicious cycle of addiction.
March 16, 2017
Early pregnancy treatment of subclinical thyroid dysfunction has no impact on infant cognitive outcomes
A comprehensive clinical trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, challenges three decades worth of observational studies by conclusively demonstrating that treatment between eight and 20 weeks of gestation does not have an impact on adverse outcomes in children through five years of age.