June 2, 2022
UNC Psychiatry Seeking Participants for Study on Teen Menstrual Cycles, Stress
The Teen Cycle Study aims to understand how stress impacts adolescent girls’ lives and well-being.
June 2, 2022
The Teen Cycle Study aims to understand how stress impacts adolescent girls’ lives and well-being.
April 13, 2022
Ten Carolina faculty, staff, students and organizations were recognized at the 23rd annual Public Service Awards this week for outstanding contributions to the Carolina campus and broader communities. UNC School of Medicine’s Robyn Jordan, MD, PhD, and Ron Strauss, DMD, PhD, were among the award recipients.
March 2, 2022
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.
January 5, 2022
Gabriel Dichter (UNC Psychiatry), Crystal Schiller (UNC Psychiatry), and David Lalush (Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering) have been awarded a 5-year $3.9-million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to use simultaneous positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging (PET-MR) to examine the effects of estradiol on reward circuitry functioning in a transdiagnostic sample of women with perimenopausal-onset anhedonia and psychosis.
December 14, 2021
A pioneer in reproductive psychiatry, Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, investigates new therapeutics for depression during and after pregnancy. She is featured in this Q &A.
December 7, 2021
Bradley Gaynes, MD, MPH, professor in the UNC Department of Psychiatry, has been selected as recipient of the American Psychiatric Association's 2022 Health Services Research Award.
October 19, 2021
UNC Health was one of 44 healthcare systems recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA) for its efforts to support clinicians’ well-being amid potential burnout.
September 30, 2021
Barbara-Ann Bybel, director of psychiatry services for UNC Health and UNC WakeBrook, will be addressing the state’s mental health crisis at the North Carolina Healthcare Association (NCHA) Virtual Town Hall next month.
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 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.
May 19, 2021
The UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health is utilizing technology and outreach efforts to provide their patients with the COVID-19 vaccine.
May 6, 2021
Researchers from the Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, UNC's Department of Genetics, and Yale University have teamed up to narrow down areas of the genome previously marked relevant to schizophrenia risk.