June 4, 2020
Philip Griffin, AuD, successfully advocated for the change and says the passage of the audiology assistant rule in North Carolina dovetails with a need for high-quality patient care.
June 4, 2020
HEELS Prep, an interdisciplinary program to support young adults with intellectual disabilities, moves online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 4, 2020
The Office of Global Health Education is excited to announce the 4th cohort of Global Health Scholars.
June 4, 2020
As the spread of the coronavirus forced hospitals to reduce visitors, a team at UNC Health worked to connect patients and their loved ones virtually.
June 4, 2020
The ambassadors in the Allied Health Sciences Department made a two-minute video to showcase some of the changes students will face when they return to campus.
June 4, 2020
UNC SOM student members of the Farmworker Student Health Alliance (FSHA) are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by making fabric masks for farmworkers in North Carolina and creating educational videos in Spanish to help these at-risk workers stay healthy.
May 28, 2020
When UNC first-year medical students shifted their studies to remote learning in March, they were eager not only to continue their typical curriculum but also to learn about COVID-19.
May 28, 2020
Ilona Jaspers, PhD, professor of pediatrics, microbiology and immunology, and environmental sciences and engineering, has been named Director of the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology effective May 31, 2020. Jaspers previously served as the Center’s Deputy Director.
May 28, 2020
In this memo, Blossom Damania, PhD, Vice Dean for Research at the UNC School of Medicine, outlines measures to allow the safe resumption of lab-based and human subjects research at the UNC School of Medicine.
May 27, 2020
The Division of Geriatric Medicine's Joshua Niznik, PharmD, PhD, has been named by the US Deprescribing Research Network as a 2020-2021 Junior Investigator Intensive Awardee. As part of the Network’s inaugural cohort, Dr. Niznik and fellow awardees will expand support for deprescribing research among older adults.
May 27, 2020
Kayla Darris, a 2019 UNC Medical Students in Aging Research (MSTAR) student from the University of Arizona College of Medicine, and Brian Diekman, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, have been awarded the American Geriatrics Society’s 2020 Best Abstract Award.
May 27, 2020
The National Cancer Institute awarded UNC Lineberger researcher Nancy E. Thomas, MD, PhD and collaborators a five-year, $4.6-million grant to study the identification of lethal melanomas at the time of diagnosis.