In this competition, selected students from across the medical school will share personal, profound and humorous lessons learned during their tenure in medical school. A panel of alumni and students will judge each of the speeches given for content and presentation. Click here to register for "What I Learned in Medical School Speech Competition" on … Read more
On Monday, April 12th Dr. Onnie Rogers, Assistant Professor in Psychology at Northwestern University, joins FPG’s Carolina Consortium on Human Development to present Situating Human Development in the Sociopolitical Context as part of our Spring 2021 series on Culture & Developmental Science: Considering Context, Culture, and Intersectional Approaches! Join us from 2:00 – 3:15 PM (ET) via zoom (https://fpgcdi.zoom.us/j/91078842280).
Dr. Chantel Martin’s research seeks to uncover social and biological mechanisms of health disparities across the life course. By identifying the long-term effects of early life stressors, such as neighborhood deprivation, crime, residential segregation, and air pollution, her multidisciplinary research aims to improve health among racial/ethnic minorities and eliminate health disparities. Read more >> Contact Name: … Read more
In this session of the NC TraCS Machine Learning Seminar series, Michele Jonsson-Funk, PhD, will introduce Machine Learning concepts and the potential implications of using Machine Learning for clinical research.
Tatiana Petrova, Ph.D., from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, will give a virtual talk, titled: “Mechanisms of Lymphatic Vascular Specialization”.
The REDCap Forms Training Session (beginner) will teach users to build forms using the online designer or data dictionary (lecture/demo).
This presentation will discuss current knowledge on the association between sensorineural hearing loss & falls as well as a proposed mechanistic model. Preliminary results on whether the association is modified by hearing healthcare intervention (i.e., hearing aids and/or cochlear implants) will also be discussed.
Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) for Machine Learning & Precision Analytics, a free virtual mini-symposium from 1-3pm on Wednesday April 14. Presenters will explore information sources, data science tools that use the information, and the application of the resulting findings to health care. Another theme will be sources of bias in machine learning and how that bias can be minimized or eliminated.
This six-part orientation is strongly recommended for all clinical research personnel who are new to research or new to UNC-Chapel Hill.
Join Carolina Health Informatics Program’s (CHIP) Analytics and Machine-Learning in Maternal-Health Intervention (AMMI) virtual conference on April 15 – 16, 2021. The AMMI conference will provide a unique and much needed platform for multi-disciplinary researchers from maternal health, machine learning, informatics, and medical imaging on topics related to prenatal health. Through this event, CHIP aims … Read more
Introduction to Retinopathy of Prematurity: Pathophysiology, Screening, Classification (Kostic); Update on Retinopathy of Prematurity Trials and Management (Go)
In North Carolina, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among women, with heart disease and stroke accounting for more than a quarter of all deaths. Education can help reverse this trend and is the core component of the Women’s Heart Symposium.
We hope you can join Dr. Paula Miller, UNC School of Medicine professor and director of the UNC Women’s Heart Program, and other cardiovascular experts in a range of heart health topics. This year’s event will be virtual, and you are able to sign up for one or multiple sessions below. If you are unable to join sessions live but would like to view a recording later, we encourage you to register.