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."
June 15, 2021
UNC Children’s is nationally ranked in seven subspecialties, two in the top 25.
May 25, 2021
Martha Perry, MD, associate professor in the UNC Department of Pediatrics was accepted to the Advanced Improvement Methods (AIM) program to help build a broader and deeper understanding of quality improvement, biostatistics, and planned experimentation.
May 17, 2021
Project Alive, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for Hunter syndrome, has surpassed its goal of raising $2.5 million dollars for a gene therapy clinical trial to be led by UNC School of Medicine researcher Joseph Muenzer, MD, PhD.
May 4, 2021
Department of Pediatrics is pleased to announce that Edwin Kim, MD, has been chosen to serve as the next Chief for the Division of Allergy and Immunology. He will start in the role on July 1st, 2021.