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…
Workshop presented by the UNC Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Services and Greensboro AHEC to provide healthcare professionals with the knowledge they can use to provide more informed and…
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Education, Faculty, Neurology, Occupational Therapy, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Services
Project Alive, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for Hunter syndrome, has surpassed its goal of raising $2.5 million dollars for a gene therapy clinical trial to be…
Department of Pediatrics is pleased to announce that Edwin Kim, MD, has been chosen to serve as the next Chief for the Division of Allergy and Immunology. He will start…
Announcements, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Vital Signs
Colin Orr, MD, has been selected to join the Continuity Research Network (CORNET) Executive Committee as the Region 4 Research Chair. CORNET is the national research network of the Academic…
In search of factors that increase vulnerability to the novel coronavirus, UNC Children’s Hospital providers, Tracie Walker, MD, and Stephanie Schwartz, MD, capture real-time data on children and youth hospitalized…
Covid-19 / Coronavirus, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Research, UNC Health, Vital Signs
Samantha Schilling, MD, MSHP awarded Research Project Grant (R01) “Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement in Primary Care: Effectiveness Trial of a Primary Care Based Parenting Intervention to Prevent Child Maltreatment.”
