October 3, 2023
The annual Dean’s Performance Awards honor employees whose work helps the UNC School of Medicine achieve its vision of becoming the nation’s leading public school of medicine. The 2023 award winners are Scott Young, Mary Hauser, John Harrison, Gloria Lima, Keri Waldrop and Dallas Carter.
October 3, 2023
Evan Nix, MD, and colleagues in the UNC Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery found that about 60% of cochlear implant recipients with hearing preservation had one or more electrode contacts in the functional acoustic hearing region.
September 20, 2023
An enthusiastic UNC School of Medicine community gathered with elected officials and leaders from UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina system Monday to celebrate the opening of Roper Hall, Carolina's state-of-the-art new home for medical education.
August 2, 2023
UNC School of Medicine graduate students Oscar Arroyo from Daniel McKay's lab and Aleah Bailey from Ilona Jasper's lab, were among 50 students across the United States named as Gilliam Fellows by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
July 17, 2023
This newly-created position will develop and oversee the University of North Carolina School of Medicine Research Administration Services, which is being created to better serve the research functions of our departments and centers, reduce risk and improve efficiencies through process improvement. This position will advise school leadership on research policy and provide guidance and direction application strategies and on compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements.
July 17, 2023
The School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks an accomplished and energetic leader to serve as chair and associate dean for the Department of Health Sciences. The selected individual will lead a diverse group of faculty, trainees and staff members and will oversee all aspects of the department, including clinical practice, education, research and fiscal management consistent with the strategic planning of the UNC School of Medicine, UNC Hospitals and UNC Health.
July 11, 2023
Springer recently released "Chronic Illness Care, Principles and Practice," edited by UNC Family Medicine's Timothy P. Daaleman, DO, MPH, and Margaret R. Helton, MD. Faculty members in the Department of Family Medicine, faculty across the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, and other national and international experts wrote the textbook.
June 28, 2023
Whole Community Connection invites applications from existing community-academic partnerships advancing health and well-being in Edgecombe or Robeson County. Selected teams participate in leadership development and receive funding to implement community-led solutions. The call for applications closes Sept. 15.
June 7, 2023
The Clinical Research Alliance will lead the UNC School of Medicine’s coordinating center clinical research enterprise, enabling its world class investigators with new capabilities to lead the design and implementation of multi-site clinical research, while making clinical research more streamlined for researchers, industry partners and trial participants.
June 7, 2023
Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, traveled to the White House on June 1 for the Cancer Moonshot Smoking Cessation Forum. The meeting highlighted the Biden Administration’s commitment to tackling the single biggest driver of cancer deaths in this country—smoking—and efforts underway across sectors to equitably expand access to effective smoking cessation support.
June 7, 2023
The selected individual will lead a diverse group of faculty, trainees, and staff members and will oversee all aspects of the Department, including clinical practice, education, research, and fiscal management consistent with the strategic planning of the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Hospitals/UNC Health.
May 31, 2023
The latest grants awarded to UNC School of Medicine faculty with project start dates from May 1 - 15, 2023, and award amounts greater than $100,000.