October 6, 2021
Leah Ranney, PhD, Director for Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program (TPEP) and team received a three-year NIH award in the amount of $1.2 million for the research study Strengthening Cigar Warnings to Prevent Adolescent Use.
September 29, 2021
In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, WRAL-TV features Michelle Hernandez, MD, professor in the UNC Department of Pediatrics and director of the N.C. Child Health Research Network.
September 23, 2021
Clinical leaders of Children’s hospitals in the North Carolina Triangle region, have shared a joint letter to advance and protect child health. Hospitalizations of children due to COVID have increased over 4-fold in the past month. The known risk of not having a vaccine available to children has become undeniable.
September 22, 2021
UNC Children’s Research Institute holds community-wide Don’t Overlook Me Drive to help accelerate pediatric research in rare childhood diseases.
September 21, 2021
Featured in Society for Pediatric Research video, Stephanie D. Davis, MD, Chair of the UNC Department of Pediatrics, gives advice to trainees about what they can do in medical school, residency, or fellowships to prepare for a rewarding career as a pediatric physician-scientist.
September 14, 2021
With a majority of kids back at daycare and in classrooms, Zach Willis, MD, MPH, and Bill Wilson, PharmD, expect to see a comeback in pediatric community-acquired pneumonia. A new clinical pathway is hoped to aid provider decision-making for these young patients.
September 7, 2021
Principal investigators James Hagood, MD, and Richard Boucher, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine will lead a multinational, $3.5-million project funded through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to map crucial cellular roles in human health and disease.
September 1, 2021
Register for our annual IHQI Symposium to celebrate the hard work and success of our Improvement Scholars. The Symposium will feature presentations from six clinician-led improvement initiatives.
July 12, 2021
A Charlotte baby became the first at UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. to receive a breakthrough gene therapy treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), after his condition was discovered through the Early Check newborn screening pilot study.
July 12, 2021
David Peden, MD, past president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, will serve as the academy’s first editor-in-chief of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global.
July 7, 2021
Joseph Piven, MD, director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, was named as one of 22 public members of this federal committee that coordinates activities and provides advice to national leaders and administrators.
July 6, 2021
Stephanie Schwartz, MD, and Tracie Walker, MD, in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, published in the New England Journal of Medicine: "Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children - Initial Therapy and Outcomes."