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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

UNC's NC TraCS and the Center for Advanced Self-powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at NC State is seeking highly innovative proposals that address high-impact unmet clinical needs using NC State’s ASSIST-developed technologies. The goal of this Special Emphasis is to match UNC providers’ expertise of clinical challenges and unmet needs, with engineering faculty at ASSIST seeking to develop novel technology applications.

Dr. Adam Goldstein produced a video to answer common myths and misconceptions about the COVID-19 vaccine, and how people across the state can get vaccinated.

In the category of overall research, the UNC School of Medicine was ranked 23rd. The School of Medicine was ranked 3rd in family medicine, up from 4th last year. Also moving up in ranks are psychiatry, which gained one position to 19th, and internal medicine tied for the 24th spot, up from 26th last year. Obstetrics and gynecology, along with pediatrics, also made the list of top residencies in the country receiving 12th and 18th rankings, respectively.

In the annual rankings of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” U.S. News & World Report ranked UNC School of Medicine 1st for primary care, 23rd in research, 4th for family medicine, 9th for rehabilitation counseling, 11th for obstetrics and gynecology, 20th for psychiatry, and 26th for internal medicine.

Category: Primary Care

Kowitt Awarded K01 to Help Communicate Harms of Multiple Tobacco Products to Youth

Enyioha Receives Career Development Award to Study Culturally Adapted Intervention for African American Smokers

Family Medicine Residency Graduates Inaugural Class from Siler City Track

Donahue, Young Awarded NIH Grant to Study Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support

Study Finds Intervention Improved Rates of Tobacco Screening, Cessation Support in Small North Carolina Practices

FIRST Program Accepts Seventh Class

The Pandemic’s Impact on Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks

Adams-Morancie Official Team Physician for Trinidad and Tobago at Tokyo Olympics

NC State ASSIST and UNC Translational Research Collaborations RFA

Adam Goldstein answers COVID vaccine FAQs in video

UNC School of Medicine Ranked First for Primary Care for Third Straight Year

UNC School of Medicine Ranked First for Primary Care for Second Straight Year