December 21, 2021
Adult Cochlear Implant Program Finishes 2021 with 2,021st Procedure
The UNC Adult Cochlear Implant Program in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery completed its 2,021st cochlear implantation procedure in 2021!
Category: School of Medicine
December 21, 2021
MedBoard Matters Podcast Features UNC Child Maltreatment Experts
Molly Berkoff, MD, MPH, and Melinda Manning, JD, MSW, from UNC Health Beacon Program, were featured on the North Carolina Medical Board podcast "MedBoard Matters."
December 21, 2021
Q&A: Dittmer Explains How CORVASEQ Surveillance Program Detects Variants like Omicron
Dirk Dittmer, PhD, explains how UNC-led CORVASEQ program helps to track the spread and development of variants like Omicron in North Carolina.
December 21, 2021
Medical Illustrator Mark Schornak will join the UNC Neurosurgery Team in 2022
Medical Illustrator Mark Schornak will join UNC Neurosurgery next month. He is well known in the field of medical illustration, having spent the past 30 years illustrating for the Barrow Neurological Institute.
December 16, 2021
Health Equity Speaker Series recording now available
A recording of the recent Health Equity Speaker Series: Moving from Intention to Impact: Health Equity & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is now available.
December 16, 2021
Steiner to Step Back as Senior Associate Dean for Medical Student Education
Beat Steiner, MD, MPH, is looking forward to staying active in medical education and student advocacy, ensuring that UNC SOM stays a leader in training students to serve communities and to narrow health inequities.
December 15, 2021
Corbett Named One of Time’s Heroes of the Year
Kizzmekia Corbett, PhD, a vaccine scientist formerly at the National Institutes of Health and UNC School of Medicine Alumna, was named one of Time magazine’s Heroes of the Year for her work on developing a COVID-19 vaccine. She is now an assistant professor at Harvard University.
December 15, 2021
Adimora Recognized for Contributions to COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
The NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines are considered a gold standard for their accuracy and have received more than 27 million page views since launching.
December 15, 2021
Bridge Funding Applications Open
The UNC School of Medicine is accepting applications for the second round of Bridge Funding for Fiscal Year 2022. The deadline for applications is January 17, 2022.
December 15, 2021
Reminder: Eshelman Institute Grant Funding Available
The Eshelman Institute for Innovation recently opened its pre-proposal application for the 2022 annual grant cycle. The Institute seeks to fund translational research related to therapeutics focused on oncology, infectious disease, and neuroscience, including rare diseases, and all digital health technologies. The Institute also welcomes ideas for devices and diagnostics, and other therapeutic areas and services.
December 14, 2021
UNC-Led CORVASEQ Surveillance Program Detects Omicron Variant in North Carolina
The Coronavirus Variant Sequencing (CORVASEQ) Surveillance Program, led by a team of UNC researchers, has detected the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant in North Carolina. Together, members of the program at UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Charlotte, Duke, Wake Forest, and East Carolina have sequenced more than 10,000 samples from COVID-19 positive patients to track the spread and development of the virus across the state.
December 14, 2021
Leadership opportunity: Curricular Representative for the Simulation, Experiential Learning, and Training (SET) Center
Please consider this position posting for Curricular Representative for the Simulation, Experiential Learning, and Training (SET) Center. The application pool is open until January 7th.