May 31, 2023
Latest Grant Awards to SOM Faculty
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.
Category: Vital Signs
May 31, 2023
Five Scholars Named to Physician Scientist Training Program
Lauren Frazer, Dominique Higgins, Kara Klein, Jose Martinez and Justin Sperlazza will receive support from the UNC School of Medicine Physician Scientists Training Program to cultivate their careers as translational clinical scientists.
May 23, 2023
New Psychiatric Program to Serve Military Members and Civilians in Southeastern North Carolina
The initial class of seven psychiatric residents will begin the four-year program in June 2024 and will have opportunities to care for a variety of patients, including individuals serving in the military, providing firsthand experiences treating conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury.
May 17, 2023
Moll Coauthors Thrombophilia Testing Guideline
Blood Research Center member Stephan Moll, MD, professor of medicine in the division of hematology, coauthored on a new guideline on thrombophilia testing in patients with venous thromboembolism to support clinical decision-making.
May 11, 2023
12 Months of Treatment with EPIT Superior to Placebo in Desensitizing Children to Peanuts
The study, called EPITOPE, led by senior author A. Wesley Burks, MD, CEO of UNC Health and dean of the UNC School of Medicine, and contributing author Edwin Kim, MD, MS, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at the UNC School of Medicine, shows superior results in desensitizing children to peanuts. Results were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
May 11, 2023
A Daughter’s Gift: UNC Hospitals Performs First Living Donor Liver Transplant in Twenty Years
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 10, 2023
UNC School of Medicine Seeks Chair for the Department of Anesthesiology
The selected individual will lead a diverse group of faculty 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.
May 8, 2023
Maximizing Extracellular Vesicles: Diehl Authors Protocol on Isolation and Quantification to Optimize Patient Care
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.
May 3, 2023
2023 Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecturer Nominations Open
Nominations are due by June 9.
April 28, 2023
Student Competes in Ironman Triathlon, Raises Thousands for SHAC
Medical student Joshua Romero competed in an Ironman triathlon in Houston, Texas, on April 22 and raised more than $3,000 to support the UNC School of Medicine's Student Health Action Coalition, a free student-run clinic available to the Chapel Hill community.
April 26, 2023
Faculty Collaboration Database Competition Winners Announced
The Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation were the basic science and clinical departments with the most participation in new database.
April 25, 2023
Alpha Omega Alpha Announces Spring 2023 Inductees
The Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honor society at UNC-Chapel Hill has announced its spring 2023 inductees. AOA was founded in 1902 and is dedicated to a belief in improving care for all by recognizing high educational achievement, honoring gifted teaching, encouraging the development of leaders in academia and the community, supporting the ideals of humanism, and promoting service to others.