March 30, 2023
Shoenbill Named Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director
Kimberly Shoenbill, MD, PhD, has been named the new director of the UNC Clinical Informatics Fellowship.
Category: Primary Care
February 2, 2023
UNC Team Partnering to Navigate Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Narges Farahi, MD, MPH, of UNC Family Medicine is PI for a grant to develop and test a holistic polycystic ovary syndrome management program within a federally qualified health center. An interdisciplinary group of co-investigators from UNC OB-GYN, UNC School of Social Work, Piedmont Health, GWU and the Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health are co-PIs.
January 25, 2023
Page Shares Ideas on How to Save Rural Healthcare
Rural hospitals and healthcare facilities face amplified financial challenges amid persisting workforce shortages, rising costs and leveling reimbursement. Cristen Page, MD, executive dean of the UNC School of Medicine shares ideas with Becker's Hospital Review on how to to save rural healthcare.
November 22, 2022
Halladay, Cummings Lead Study to Improve Blood Pressure Control Testing Effectiveness
Jacqueline Halladay, MD, MPH, from UNC Family Medicine, and Doyle “Skip” Cummings, PharmD, from the ECU Brody School of Medicine, are leading a five-year, $5.6 million PCORI grant to understand if a technology-enabled team-based approach results in greater blood pressure control compared to usual care in populations of people with uncontrolled high blood pressure.
November 9, 2022
Kowitt Awarded K01 to Help Communicate Harms of Multiple Tobacco Products to Youth
Sarah Kowitt, PhD, MPH, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Family Medicine, was recently awarded a five-year, $762,196 grant by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01 grant) focuses on tobacco regulatory research in youth, specifically on how to communicate the harms of multiple tobacco products that youth may be using—referred to as multiple tobacco product (MTP) use—instead of just one product at a time.
November 9, 2022
Enyioha Receives Career Development Award to Study Culturally Adapted Intervention for African American Smokers
Chineme Enyioha, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Family Medicine, was recently awarded a K23 Career Development Award for a study entitled, “Development of a prototype for a mobile health intervention for smoking cessation with features culturally adapted for African American smokers.” Enyioha will focus her work on creating a mobile cessation system specifically targeted at African American smokers.
July 7, 2022
Family Medicine Residency Graduates Inaugural Class from Siler City Track
UNC Family Medicine is celebrating the first graduates from its Federally Qualified Health Center Rural Health Track at Siler City. Morgan Layman, MD, Naeemah Munir, MD, MPH, and Emily Samson, MD, MPH, began their training as the inaugural class at Siler City Community Health Center in 2019.
April 28, 2022
Donahue, Young Awarded NIH Grant to Study Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support
Katrina Donahue, MD, MPH, and Laura Young, MD, PhD, received a grant from the National Institute of Health to increase uptake of diabetes self-management education. The study will focus on two factors: provider and diabetes care and education specialist engagement with patients, and patient peer support.
April 11, 2022
Study Finds Intervention Improved Rates of Tobacco Screening, Cessation Support in Small North Carolina Practices
Sarah Kowitt, PhD, MPH, Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, and Samuel Cykert, MD, recently published a study that found a cardiovascular disease risk reduction intervention improved rates of tobacco screening and cessation support in small primary care practices in North Carolina.
March 2, 2022
FIRST Program Accepts Seventh Class
The UNC School of Medicine is pleased to announce the acceptance of the seventh class of the Fully Integrated Readiness for Service Training Program. The program is an accelerated medical degree program with direct progression into a North Carolina residency program and following training, service in a rural and/or underserved area of the state.
February 10, 2022
The Pandemic’s Impact on Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks
Drs. Katrina Donahue, Jacquie Halladay, Michelle Hernandez, and colleagues published in Health Affairs using the analogy of a watershed to explain the primary care system and how the pandemic has adversely affected its Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs), a vital infrastructure that provides the capacity to assess and improve health outcomes where most people receive care.
August 12, 2021
Adams-Morancie Official Team Physician for Trinidad and Tobago at Tokyo Olympics
Nailah Adams-Morancie, MD, MS, CAQSM, Director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship based at UNC Family Medicine, represented sports medicine and family medicine as official team physician for Trinidad and Tobago at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. While she was there, Adams was kind enough to take part in a quick question & answer session.