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In July 2013, 60-year-old Cynthia Stingone, known to her friends and family as Cindy, had a persistent cold and cough. She went to her primary care physician to find out why it wouldn’t go away. Since she is a former smoker, her doctor took the precautionary step of ordering x-rays, EKG, and CT scans to find out what was going on. What they found would send Cindy on a medical journey spanning hundreds of miles and involving multiple surgeries to repair her extensive Aortic Aneurysm.

On September 9, UNC Health's media briefing featured Dr. Cheryl Jackson, chief of the division of pediatric emergency medicine and professor of pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, and Dr. Amir Barzin, assistant professor of family medicine and a leader of the COVID-19 Respiratory Diagnostic Center in Chapel Hill.

We seek internal candidates for the position of Designated Institutional Official (DIO). Applicants should share a brief statement of interest and their CV to Michelle Howlett (Michelle.Howlett@unchealth.unc.edu) by this Sunday, September 20, 2020. Selection will be made by a committee co-chaired by Tom Ivester and Julie Byerley, and will include representatives from both UNC Hospitals and UNC SOM.

The UNC Health Enterprises team is seeking a Physician Innovator to support and grow UNC Health’s portfolio of new consumer health experiences and strategically-aligned health businesses.

he purpose of this FOA is to solicit meritorious applications for Centers of Excellence for TWH to develop and conduct a broad range of multidisciplinary research, intervention, outreach and education, and evaluation activities that advance the overall safety, health, and well-being of the diverse population of workers in our nation.

Blood-Cell Consortium members from the UNC Department of Genetics, Drs. Yun Li (associate professor), Laura Raffield (assistant professor), Karen Mohlke (professor) and Cassandra Spracklen (former postdoctoral fellow) are co-authors on two large studies focused on the genetics of blood cell traits.

Dr. Morgan McEachern is the new Director of the Advanced Clinical Selective, a required course in Individualization Phase designed to improve students’ clinical skills in preparation for residency.

The brains of infants who develop the disorder grow too fast, a UNC-Chapel Hill discovery that could help doctors prevent impairments before they appear.

SOM has updated its Face Mask Guidance for the fall and posted on the SOM Intranet.

Michael Seifert, MD, recently joined UNC Department of Orthopaedics as an Assistant Professor, specializing in non-operative sports medicine.

By the middle of March, 2020, COVID-19 had upended the traditional training experience in the UNC Internal Medicine Residency Program. Didactic coursework and clinical skills training had to be quickly converted to an online format and clinical rotations were suspended as decisions were quickly made to ensure residents had meaningful and robust curricular activities during the clinical suspensions. It was against this backdrop that a new COVID-19 elective was formalized.

UNC's Erica Brenner, MD, A. Sidney Barritt IV, MD, and Andrew M. Moon, MD, are co-authors of the study with colleagues at Oxford University.

Category: Vital Signs

The Stars Aligned for Patient with Extensive Aortic Aneurysm

UNC Health Media Briefing with UNC Experts – Flu Season During a Global Pandemic

Applications for Internal Candidates for Designated Institutional Official due by Sunday, Sept. 20

UNC Health Enterprises seeking candidates for Physician Innovator to drive innovation and transformation

Limited Submissions Internal Call for Proposals: NIH NIOSH Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health (U19)

Genetics Faculty Publish Back-to-Back Papers in Cell

School of Medicine announces new Advanced Clinical Selective Course Director

CIDD Autism Imaging Research Published in National Geographic

SOM Updated Face Mask Guidance for Fall 2020

Orthopaedics welcomes new sports medicine provider Dr. Michael Seifert

McEntee, Henderson Introduce New COVID-19 Elective for Internal Medicine Residents

Patients with a Liver Transplant Aren’t at Greater Risk of Death from COVID-19