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August 17, 2021
Call for Nominations for the 2022 Distinguished Medical Alumni Awards
The Committee for the Distinguished Medical Alumni Awards is seeking nominations. All submissions are due by October 15, 2021.
August 17, 2021
The Committee for the Distinguished Medical Alumni Awards is seeking nominations. All submissions are due by October 15, 2021.
August 12, 2021
The UNC School of Medicine Student Government presented the Whitehead Lecture by Ana Felix and awards to colleagues during a virtual celebration August 4. If you missed it, you can watch a recording.
August 5, 2021
Kavita Shah Arora, MD, division director of general obstetrics and gynecology, was selected as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics by the United States National Academy of Medicine.
August 5, 2021
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has selected Ross Boyce, MD, as a recipient of a 2021 Clinical Scientist Development Award for his research proposal titled, “Getting malaria off the back of women and children in western Uganda.”
July 20, 2021
The Alliance for Black Doulas for Black Mamas (ABDBM) graduated its first class of Black Doulas on July 10th. Founded by UNC Family Medicine’s Venus Standard, MSN, CNM, FACNM, LCCE, ABDBM offers an enhanced Doula training program whose goal is to increase access of Doula training to Black women, while improving Black women’s birth outcomes by expanding their access to social, emotional, and educational support from professionally trained Black Doulas.
July 12, 2021
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.
July 12, 2021
Future Science Group named Michelle Itano, PhD, as the new Editor-in-Chief for BioTechniques, the International Journal of Life Science Methods.
July 7, 2021
This year’s Robert C. Cefalo House Officer Awards were given to UNC Medical Center residents: Michael Hart, MD, obstetric anesthesiology; Diya Jost, MD, medicine, pediatrics; Meredith Kugar, MD, plastic and reconstructive surgery; Daniel Markwalter, MD, emergency medicine; and Andriana Tompary, MD, physical medicine & rehabilitation.
July 7, 2021
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 national leaders and administrators.
April 20, 2021
Ryan Lavalley, post-doctoral research associate in the Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, was honored on April 15 by UNC Chapel Hill for his outstanding contributions to the campus and broader communities.
March 2, 2021
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists Charles Carter, Qi Zhang, and Abigail Knight were awarded $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to answer the age-old question: How did life on Earth begin?
January 12, 2021
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health, including UNC School of Medicine graduate Kizzy Corbett, PhD, co-developed one of the two currently FDA-authorized vaccines with pharmaceutical company Moderna.