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April 20, 2021
New block co-director in the Foundation Phase
Marcy Willis-Gray has been selected as co-director of the Reproductive Block in the Foundation Phase curriculum.
April 20, 2021
Marcy Willis-Gray has been selected as co-director of the Reproductive Block in the Foundation Phase curriculum.
April 20, 2021
Karen Bluth, PhD, is co-author of a new book "Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Teens with ADHD: Build Executive Functioning Skills, Increase Motivation, and Improve Self-Confidence" will be officially released May 1 by New Harbinger Publishers.
April 20, 2021
An ad hoc committee has been appointed to undertake a routine review of the leadership provided by Melina Kibbe, MD, Chair of the Department of Surgery. The review is a standard procedure of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and will take place on June 3, 2021.
April 20, 2021
Monica Diaz, MD, assistant professor of neurology, was named as a UNC School of Medicine Simmons Scholar, effective July 2021.
April 20, 2021
William Droegemueller, MD, a giant in the field of obstetrics and gynecology and former chair of UNC OBGYN, passed away April 15.
April 14, 2021
Mara Buchbinder, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine, is the author of a new book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America, which will be published in May by the University of California Press.
April 6, 2021
Robert Blouin, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, encourages faculty to participate in an important national survey of faculty job satisfaction.
April 5, 2021
Yueh Lee, MD, PhD, Jiandong Liu, PhD, and Angela Smith, MD were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the fifth installment of this annual award.
March 25, 2021
Nelson Oyesiku, MD, PhD, continued a tradition at the journal Neurosurgery, penning a letter as the editor-in-chief transitioned from one prestigious university to another with a fitting cover image for the upcoming issue.
March 18, 2021
Michelle Itano, PhD, director of the UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core and assistant professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, is featured in this edition of the Talking Techniques podcast about gender equality in STEM.
March 17, 2021
Zev Nakamura, MD, Rebekah Nash, MD, PhD, Sarah Laughon, MD, and Donald Rosenstein, MD, published an article in the journal Psychiatry in Primary Care on the neuropsychiatric complications of COVID-19.
March 11, 2021
Patrick Ellsworth, MD, assistant professor in the division of hematology in the UNC Department of Medicine, received a new ASH Research Restart Award to help ensure research continuity and workforce stability during the COVID-19 pandemic.