July 2, 2025
‘There’s Good in Every Day:’ Wife of Double Lung Transplant Recipient Shares Awe-Inspiring Medical Journey
Duane McKay, 40, receives life-saving double transplant at UNC Hospitals after battling leukemia five years prior.
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November 20, 2024
READY TO RESPOND: An Inside Look Into UNC’s SPARC Program
The UNC Special Pathogens Response Center (SPARC) at UNC Hospitals is a regional and national resource for safely caring for patients with a special pathogen. Get an inside look on how healthcare professionals prepare and train during an exercise at the UNC Medical Center.
September 27, 2024
Hear From the Recipients of the First Domino Liver Transplant at UNC Hospitals in Decades
Seth Webb, a 30-year-old man from Macclesfield, NC, and Scott Owen, a 72-year-old man from Cameron, NC, were both in need of a new liver. Surgeons at UNC Hospitals made the most of the opportunity: performing a rare domino liver transplant at UNC Hospitals to save their lives with the least number of organs possible.
September 25, 2024
UNC Fast-Tracks Personalized Treatment for Twins with Ultra Rare Genetic Disorder
In May 2022, Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, MD, a neurologist at the UNC School of Medicine, met two new patients combatting a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorder called Batten disease. With help from UNC, the twin girls were able to get personalized treatment from bench to bedside in record time.
June 12, 2024
Remembering William Woodard “Bill” McLendon
William Woodard “Bill” McLendon, MD, Professor Emeritus and Vice Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, former Director of the Department of Hospital Laboratories, UNC Hospitals, passed away at age 93.
April 5, 2024
UNC Hospitals Performs First Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement in North Carolina
John P. Vavalle, MD, MHS, FACC, and Matthew A. Cavender, MD, MPH, FACC, interventional cardiologists and their collaborative team in the Structural Heart Disease Program at UNC, have performed their first transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement in the clinical setting, a revolutionary treatment for patients living with a common type of heart valve disease.
February 8, 2024
A New Ultrasound Technology is Revolutionizing IBD Care at UNC School of Medicine
The UNC School of Medicine is on pace to become one of the few sites in the United States to incorporate intestinal ultrasound as an imaging technique for managing Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
January 30, 2024
UNC Hospitals Performs First Domino Liver Transplant in Decades
Chirag Desai, MD, FACS, an abdominal organ transplant and hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgeon at UNC Hospitals, and his team at the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery performed a "domino" liver transplant which helped two patients from a single donor without splitting a liver.
October 31, 2023
New Procedure at UNC Restores Eyesight, Sensation for Patients with Rare Eye Condition
Matthew Miller, MD, Daniel Rubinstein, MD, and Hussam Banna, MD, from the UNC School of Medicine joined forces to perform the first corneal neurotization procedure at UNC, a life-changing surgery for patients who have neurotrophic keratitis.
October 3, 2023
UNC Hospitals Meets Rising Need for Alcohol-Related Liver Disease
Hersh Shroff, MD, a transplant hepatologist and assistant professor of medicine, has seen the human impact of a recent, rising trend: Severe alcohol-related liver disease with high rates of death or need for liver transplantation. The new IHEAL Clinic at Eastowne addresses this trend.
July 6, 2023
Clinical Trial Improves Man’s Quality of Life with Tongue Cancer
Washington, N.C man with squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue experiences positive life-changing results after participating in an induction therapy clinical trial at the UNC School of Medicine.
May 11, 2023
A Daughter’s Gift: UNC Hospitals Performs First Living Donor Liver Transplant in Twenty Years
Meredith Stiehl received a partial-liver transplant from her daughter Kenan, the first-ever living donor procedure at UNC Hospitals to be conducted in twenty years. Chirag Desai, MD, FACS, led the care team that performed the procedure.