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July 21, 2021
Newsworthy from the School of Medicine, Week of July 15-22
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty during the past week, starting Thursday July 15, 2021.
July 21, 2021
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty during the past week, starting Thursday July 15, 2021.
July 20, 2021
UNC Family Medicine's Kevin Tate, MHA, who has been with the department for 16 years, began his tenure as Vice Chair for Administration July 12.
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 20, 2021
UNC Department of Radiology is pleased to name Gloria Salazar, MD, FSIR, as the department’s next Division Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (VIR). Selected from a competitive pool of candidates nationwide, Dr. Salazar will begin leading our VIR division as an Associate Professor of Radiology in October 2021.
July 19, 2021
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.
July 16, 2021
The UNC School of Medicine Office of Graduate Education published findings in PLOS Biology showing that graduate students who partake in professional development opportunities unrelated to their lab work did not delay their time to graduation or their rate of manuscript publication.
July 16, 2021
The School of Medicine is excited to welcome Claire Larson, MD, to the role of Director of Electives, coordinating elective offerings across all phases including the scholarly concentrations. Dr. Larson earned her medical degree from the UNC School of Medicine and completed Internal Medicine and Geriatrics training at the University of California, San Francisco. From …
July 16, 2021
The UNC School of Medicine is seeking a clinical faculty member to serve as the director for the Transition to Residency (TTR) course for all graduating medical students. This position will receive 10% salary support to the NIH cap.
July 14, 2021
The American College of Gastroenterology announces new co-editors-in-chief Jasmohan Bajaj, MD, of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Millie Long, MD, MPH, of the UNC School of Medicine, starting in 2022.
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.
June 24, 2021
Led by John Batsis, MD, researchers completed a comprehensive review of 315 existing clinical trials of weight loss supplements and therapies, and most of the studies showed the supplements did not produce weight loss among users.