
April 13, 2022
Five PAs to Teach Your Students About Women’s History Month
The Physician Assistant Education Association featured Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, among five women who have advanced the PA profession.
April 13, 2022
The Physician Assistant Education Association featured Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, among five women who have advanced the PA profession.
April 13, 2022
Ten Carolina faculty, staff, students and organizations were recognized at the 23rd annual Public Service Awards this week for outstanding contributions to the Carolina campus and broader communities. UNC School of Medicine’s Robyn Jordan, MD, PhD, and Ron Strauss, DMD, PhD, were among the award recipients.
April 12, 2022
UNC Lineberger’s Blossom Damania, PhD, and Dirk Dittmer, PhD, are each 2021 recipients of the Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award, and will be honored at a reception in June 2022 for their individual high impact research accomplishments that have advanced the field of tumor virology, their service to the UNC School of Medicine and university …
March 17, 2022
Anthony Charles, MD, MPH, and Jared Gallaher, MD, MPH, co-wrote a review article in the Journal of the American Medical Association on acute cholecystitis, a gallbladder condition diagnosed in approximately 200,000 people in the United States each year.
March 17, 2022
Wanda Nicholson, MD, MPH, MBA, professor in the UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, was appointed to the independent body tasked with making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services, such as screenings, counseling, and preventive medications.
March 16, 2022
All UNC-CH faculty, staff, and students are eligible to nominate their faculty, colleagues, and collaborators for this award run by the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of the Provost.
March 15, 2022
Trig is providing the Design Thinking for Healthcare Providers workshop series for UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Health. FastTraCS, part of NC TraCS, will be sponsoring teams following application review, valued at $3,000. We are seeking passionate healthcare providers who want to make an impact. We strongly encourage applications from all provider types including physicians, advanced practice providers (PA-C, NP, etc), nurses, medical students, residents, and others.
March 15, 2022
Each year, the UNC School of Medicine Standing Committees election offers faculty an opportunity to participate in medical school governance by serving on a committee as a faculty representative or simply voting in the election. Nominate a faculty member or self-nominate to express interest standing for election to a committee.
March 2, 2022
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty during the past week, starting Friday February 25, 2022.
February 24, 2022
The compound CMX521 significantly reduced lung viral titer and symptoms in a SARS-CoV-2 mouse model, as reported by biomedical company Chimerix in collaboration with the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill. UNC School of Medicine faculty Nat Moorman, PhD, and Mark Heise, PhD, are key researchers in this program.
February 16, 2022
Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research, was featured on a panel as part of Duke Research Week to speak on community engagement and health disparities from equity perspective.
February 15, 2022
Ron Swanstrom, PhD, the Charles P. Postelle, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, was featured on Science Friday on NPR, discussing COVID-19 treatments along with fellow virologist Adam Lauring, PhD, at the University of Michigan.