November 14, 2023
The UNC Peripheral Nerve Center is now open. The center is an integrated practice unit that seeks to improve the lives of patients dealing with peripheral nerve disorders. The center's work will focus on conditions that affect nerves transmitting signals from the brain and spinal cord to the body.
October 31, 2023
Matthew Miller, MD, Daniel Rubinstein, MD, and Hussam Banna, MD, from the UNC School of Medicine joined forces to perform the first corneal neurotization procedure at UNC, a life-changing surgery for patients who have neurotrophic keratitis.
September 25, 2023
Kristalyn Gallagher, DO, Kevin Chen, MD, and Shawn Gomez, EngScD, in the UNC School of Medicine have developed an AI model that can predict whether or not cancerous tissue has been fully removed from the body during breast cancer surgery.
May 11, 2023
Meredith Stiehl received a partial-liver transplant from her daughter Kenan, the first-ever living donor procedure at UNC Hospitals to be conducted in twenty years. Chirag Desai, MD, FACS, led the care team that performed the procedure.
May 8, 2023
It's a big step forward in using extracellular vesicles (EVs) as a diagnostic tool. Lead study author, J. Nathaniel Diehl, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, led research showing how a new protocol in handling extracellular vesicles can improve significant diagnostic and therapeutic potential in disease development.
April 7, 2023
Dominique Higgins, MD, PhD, led research into how a specialized diet can induce a new type of programmed cell death to help kill brain tumor cells.
November 21, 2022
Ellen Cairns, RN, a Division of Plastic Surgery nurse, is the recipient of the 2022 Jill Ann Perlette Award. This annual award recognizes outstanding nursing care and supports the continuing education of registered nurses in the Department of Surgery.
November 1, 2022
Led by Chirag Desai, MD, professor of surgery, the Chronic Pancreatitis and Autologous Islet Cell Transplant Program has been nationally recognized as an approved NPF Center by the National Pancreas Foundation.
May 24, 2022
Caprice C. Greenberg, MD, MPH, will begin her work in the role on August 15.
May 19, 2022
Created in 1982 by the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals, Camp Celebrate was the first burn survivor camp experience of its kind in the United States.
March 17, 2022
Anthony Charles, MD, MPH, and Jared Gallaher, MD, MPH, co-wrote a review article in the Journal of the American Medical Association on acute cholecystitis, a gallbladder condition diagnosed in approximately 200,000 people in the United States each year.
February 22, 2022
On February 21, medical students visited University Libraries to learn about the history of medicine. They examined historical representations of human anatomy over the centuries using materials drawn from the rare book collection at the Wilson Special Collections Library.