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The Academic Coaches will work with students in the Carolina EXCEL program providing small group facilitation and academic coaching in the foundational sciences for a group of 5 students enrolled in the Carolina EXCEL program which would begin in the Summer of 2021. EXCEL is a newly launching year-long pipeline program for under-represented in medicine students to prepare them to excel in medical school.

A newly-released video highlights three UNC researchers who show ground-breaking possibilities with TraCS support – drones that deliver life-saving equipment, mental health treatment based on brain wave therapy, and 3D-printed intravaginal rings to deliver therapeutics for women’s health. NC TraCS is here to help strengthen and accelerate research at UNC-Chapel Hill and beyond. The North Carolina Translational and …

Save the date and register for the upcoming Faculty Success Symposium on October 15, 2020. This event is for all faculty new to the School of Medicine.

See what's new in the UNC Department of Neurology: research, new faculty, honors, outreach and more!

IHQI invites applications for an Associate Director. Interested applicants should send a CV and Letter of Interest to Dr. Darren DeWalt by September 7, 2020.

The Caregivers at Carolina Program provides support to physician scientists who are facing substantial caregiving demands at home. During the renewal process, UNC School of Medicine was one of the institutions that received additional funding.

The study, led by Marcella H. Boynton, PhD, in the division of general medicine and clinical epidemiology, was published as a research letter in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Kristina De Paris, PhD, and Sallie Permar, MD, PhD, received a supplement from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to test Moderna’s mRNA vaccine and a protein vaccine designed by Kizzy Corbett and Barney Graham.

Our Carolina Care Highlight this week recognizes Dr. Andrew Z. Wang from the Department of Radiation Oncology. Here's what one of Dr. Wang's patients had to say: “Dr. Wang is a perfect doctor! As a physician myself, I am in a great position to observe when another physician is caring well for his patients. Dr. Wang is the epitome of kindness, competence, intellect, and responsiveness. Every question I had (and there were many) he answered with care and concern..."

Inpatient rates of Clostridioides difficile (or C. difficile), a common healthcare-associated infection, reached an all-time low at UNC Hospitals earlier this year as COVID-19 moved into North Carolina. Collaboration between Infection Prevention and the Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Program seeks to sustain it.

GuideWire is a behind-the-scenes peek into the world of medical device innovation and problem discovery. Our team of medical device design engineers dive into the nuances, challenges, and considerations that go into finding and solving high-impact unmet medical needs at a large university hospital.

Getting to know new foot and ankle surgeon Trapper Lalli, MD, new clinical assistant professor in the UNC Department of Orthopaedics.

Category: Vital Signs

New coaching position for students through the Office of Medical Education

NC TraCS features three UNC researchers in new video

Register Now for the Faculty Success Symposium for New Faculty

Neurology News: June – August 2020

UNC Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement Recruiting Associate Director

Caregivers at Carolina Program Renewed by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Study Highlights Effectiveness of Messages from Public Health Organizations

UNC and Duke Investigators Receive a $1.5 Million Grant to Test SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines

Carolina Care Highlight: Dr. Andrew Z. Wang

Renewed collaboration expected to help keep C. difficile infection rates low

“We consider ourselves problem solvers” GuideWire takes a deeper dive into interventional radiology

Orthopaedics adds new foot and ankle surgeon, Trapper Lalli, MD