February 2, 2024
Sydney and Sheridan Taylor of Durham, North Carolina, have lived with this rare genetic disorder all of their lives. They and their mother, Helena, recount how far they have come since her daughters became patients at UNC Hospitals more than two decades ago and what more needs to be done during pain crises and emergency visits.
January 31, 2024
February is Black History Month, a time to recognize the achievements of Black people and celebrate our diverse voices. UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine teammates share a little about themselves and what Black History means to them.
January 31, 2024
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature 4th-year UNC School of Medicine student Clark Williamson. From Statesville, NC, Clark has always had the ambition to want to help others. After entertaining other career options, he pursued his calling after discovering his passion for medicine.
January 25, 2024
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Jesus Ruiz, MD, published an article in Annals of Family Medicine addressing the community impact of UNC Chatham Hospital’s Maternity Care Center, titled “Closing the Gap: How a Community Effort Can Improve Rural Maternity Care.”
January 22, 2024
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature graduate student Andrew Scott Kennedy Jr., in the Thaxton lab. He’s a budding microscopist who plans to dedicate his research career to understanding health and disease to help patients.
January 3, 2024
Listing of recent competitive grant awards to SOM faculty.
December 15, 2023
UNC-Chapel Hill was recently named a National HIV Residency Pathway Consortium Site and awarded a year-long, $68,000 grant to support its efforts in training family medicine and internal medicine residents in caring for people with HIV. UNC’s site Investigators, Rick Moore, MD, and Louise Rambo King, MD, have a storied history of caring for patients with HIV.
December 8, 2023
Research led by first and second authors Aaron C. Viser, Adelaide R. Cooke, and corresponding author Anne F. Peery, MD, associate professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, reveals how a screening tool can measure the prevalence of malnutrition among patients at the UNC Multidisciplinary Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic.
November 30, 2023
Nailah Adams, MD, recently served as the head team physician for USA Track & Field for their 2023 Pan American Games contingent in Santiago, Chile. Adams previously was the official team physician for Trinidad and Tobago at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and is the director of the UNC Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship.
November 2, 2023
A UNC Family Medicine collaboration with Piedmont Health Services and partners has resulted in a $3 million HRSA grant to improve training in overcoming language and disability barriers. The 5-year project, “Primary Care Training and Enhancement - Language and Disability Access to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” is focused on building and developing curriculum and program experiences to enhance the training for medical students and residents.
October 11, 2023
UNC Hospitals leadership has awarded the Department of Family Medicine’s Jen Martini, MD, the Medical Staff Physician Excellence Clinician of the Year Award.
October 11, 2023
In addition to its growing funding and support of more than 160 new medical and dental residences developing in rural and underserved areas, the center also recently hosted its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., which included presentations from federal agencies as well as dental and medical accrediting bodies.