October 25, 2023
A multidisciplinary team from UNC Hospitals has been recognized as a top finalist for The Joint Commission and Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson National Award for Excellence in Pursuit of Healthcare Equity for their work on improving healthcare delivery to patients with limited English proficiency at the medical center.
October 11, 2023
UNC Hospitals leadership has awarded the Department of Family Medicine’s Jen Martini, MD, the Medical Staff Physician Excellence Clinician of the Year Award.
October 3, 2023
Evan Nix, MD, and colleagues in the UNC Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery found that about 60% of cochlear implant recipients with hearing preservation had one or more electrode contacts in the functional acoustic hearing region.
August 23, 2023
Latest awards include grants to School of Medicine faculty with project start dates in July 2023 and a total award amount greater than $100,000.
August 21, 2023
A $100,000 grant from the Neurocritical Care Foundation has been awarded to David Y. Hwang MD, division chief of neurocritical care in the Department of Neurology at the UNC School of Medicine, and colleagues to research an intervention to support family caregivers of patients surviving ICU admission for coma.
August 21, 2023
Miriam Sklerov, MD, of the UNC Neurology Movement Disorders Center, recently won a National Institutes of Mental Health K23 award for her project, "Investigation of non-invasive brain stimulation for the treatment of apathy."
August 21, 2023
UNC Neurology researcher Ian Shih has received a $2.4 million NIH grant to improve functional brain imaging techniques.
August 4, 2023
A new study published by UNC Family Medicine’s Sarah Kowitt, PhD, MPH, and colleagues looked at the impact of different types of warning signs for large and premium cigars sold individually at the point of sale. The team’s newly developed graphic and text warnings were more effective than the FDA’s proposed text-only warnings and could potentially increase the effectiveness of warning signs for large and premium cigars.
August 2, 2023
The 2023 awards were given to Michael Cunningham, MD, Alexander Fenn, MD, Calvin Gross, MD, Wesley Roten, MD, and Krishan Sivaraj, MD.
July 17, 2023
Jill Fisher, PhD, will write a scholarly book on the medicalization and pharmaceuticalization of food allergies. The book will explore how American families navigate food allergies as a part of everyday life as well as a condition that increasingly justifies risky and/or burdensome therapeutic interventions.
July 17, 2023
This newly-created position will develop and oversee the University of North Carolina School of Medicine Research Administration Services, which is being created to better serve the research functions of our departments and centers, reduce risk and improve efficiencies through process improvement. This position will advise school leadership on research policy and provide guidance and direction application strategies and on compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements.
July 17, 2023
The School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks an accomplished and energetic leader to serve as chair and associate dean for the Department of Health Sciences. The selected individual will lead a diverse group of faculty, trainees and staff members and will oversee all aspects of the department, including clinical practice, education, research and fiscal management consistent with the strategic planning of the UNC School of Medicine, UNC Hospitals and UNC Health.