Dr. Martha Fairbanks Perry, MD, has been named Director of Outpatient Quality and Safety for UNC Children’s Hospital. This position will report directly to The Chief Quality Officer for UNC…
The American Pediatric Society recognizes Misty Good, MD, MS, Matthew Laughon, MD, MPH, and Michael Steiner, MD, MPH as new members for year 2022.
Announcements, Awards, Rankings and Recognitions, News, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Vital Signs
A quality improvement effort led by CASP’s Bill Wilson, PharmD, was recognized by UNC Medical Center Improvement Council’s Quality and Safety Awards with an honorable mention for their work to…
Infection Prevention, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Vital Signs
Jack Curran is joining the UNC School of Medicine from Children’s Mercy Kansas City.
Pediatrics And Children's Health, School of Medicine, Vital Signs
UNC Department of Radiology is pleased to name Carolina Guimaraes, MD, as the new Chief of Pediatric Radiology. Additionally, Lane Donnelly, MD, and spouse of Dr. Guimaraes, will also be…
Announcements, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Radiology, Vital Signs
Jim Hagood, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, and Ronit Freeman, PhD, Associate Professor in Applied Physical Science, have been awarded a grant by Eshelman Institute for Innovation to pursue research in…
Announcements, Clinical Research, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Pulmonology, Research, Vital Signs
Leah Ranney, PhD, Director for Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program (TPEP) and team received a three-year NIH award in the amount of $1.2 million for the research study Strengthening Cigar…
Addiction, Clinical Research, Family Medicine, News, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Research, Social Medicine, Vital Signs
In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, WRAL-TV features Michelle Hernandez, MD, professor in the UNC Department of Pediatrics and director of the N.C. Child Health Research Network.
Clinical leaders of Children’s hospitals in the North Carolina Triangle region, have shared a joint letter to advance and protect child health. Hospitalizations of children due to COVID have increased…
UNC Children’s Research Institute holds community-wide Don’t Overlook Me Drive to help accelerate pediatric research in rare childhood diseases.
Featured in Society for Pediatric Research video, Stephanie D. Davis, MD, Chair of the UNC Department of Pediatrics, gives advice to trainees about what they can do in medical school,…
With a majority of kids back at daycare and in classrooms, Zach Willis, MD, MPH, and Bill Wilson, PharmD, expect to see a comeback in pediatric community-acquired pneumonia. A new…
Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Vital Signs
Principal investigators James Hagood, MD, and Richard Boucher, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine will lead a multinational, $3.5-million project funded through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to map crucial…
Awards, Rankings and Recognitions, News, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Research
Register for our annual IHQI Symposium to celebrate the hard work and success of our Improvement Scholars. The Symposium will feature presentations from six clinician-led improvement initiatives.
Cardiology and Heart Health, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Family Medicine, General Medicine, Infection Prevention, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Psychiatry And Mental Health, Pulmonology, Radiology, School of Medicine, UNC Health, Urgent Care, Vital Signs
A Charlotte baby became the first at UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. to receive a breakthrough gene therapy treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), after his condition was…
Neurology, News, Pediatrics And Children's Health, School of Medicine, Vital Signs
David Peden, MD, past president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, will serve as the academy’s first editor-in-chief of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global.
Joseph Piven, MD, director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, was named as one of 22 public members of this federal committee that coordinates activities and provides advice to…
Awards, Rankings and Recognitions, News, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Psychiatry And Mental Health
Stephanie Schwartz, MD, and Tracie Walker, MD, in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, published in the New England Journal of Medicine: “Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children – Initial Therapy and Outcomes.”
Clinical Research, Covid-19 / Coronavirus, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Vital Signs
UNC Children’s is nationally ranked in seven subspecialties, two in the top 25.
Awards, Rankings and Recognitions, News, Pediatrics And Children's Health
Martha Perry, MD, associate professor in the UNC Department of Pediatrics was accepted to the Advanced Improvement Methods (AIM) program to help build a broader and deeper understanding of quality…
