From Buncombe County to the Outer Banks, people across North Carolina are interested and searching for research participation opportunities. Research for Me, the centralized resource at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to find research opportunities and learn about research, aims to connect these people with research teams.

UNC’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation publishes a newsletter so that colleagues and friends of the department can remain up-to-date with our latest news.

Gabrielle Adams, a UNC undergraduate Pre-Med student, authored a new study in a special issue on Cancer for the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, entitled “Attitudes and Behaviors That Impact Skin Cancer Risk among Men.” Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, Professor of Family Medicine and Director of Departmental Advancement, and Kristen Jarman, MSPH, Associate Director of the Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program, co-authored the study.

Medical students can find new study and work spaces on the first floors of NC Memorial Hospital and NC Women's Hospital.

Louise Thoma, PT, DPT, PhD, discussed her recent publication in Arthritis Care & Research with Healio.

The application cycle is open for the NC TraCS Postdoctoral Training Program. The goal of this program is to immerse postdoctoral scientists in the actual translation of research products within one of three tracks in the translational pipeline – clinical trials/regulatory; entrepreneurship and commercialization; and health systems. Applications due November 15, 2021.

The Translational Science Interagency Fellowship is a new postdoctoral fellowship opportunity. Fellows will be jointly mentored by NCATS and FDA scientists on a research project of mutual interest to both organizations. Fellows in this 3-year program will develop skills of value to future careers in academia, the pharmaceutical industry, and government. Applications due December 15, 2021.

Patty Saponaro, MS, MBA, Associate Chair for Administration in the Department of Radiation Oncology, will step down from her role in April 2022.

The UNC Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement (IHQI) invites letters of intent from clinicians interested in IHQI’s Improvement Scholars Program. Letters are due Dec 6, 2021.

Navigate helps School of Medicine employees, including clinicians and faculty, streamline resources and communications that help students succeed.

Contact the UNC Benefits Support Center at 919-962-3071 for assistance.

Social and Health Systems 4 (SHS4) is a course for Application Phase medical students which meets monthly and provides a setting in which students can discuss aspects of the practice of medicine that they will encounter in their clinical experiences but that may not otherwise be a part of the formal curriculum in the clinical clerkships. The course is seeking new faculty members for Population Health and RICE seminars for the coming academic year (March 2022 to February 2023).

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Expanding UNC Research to New Participants

UNC PM&R Fall Newsletter Available Now

UNC Pre-Med Student Authors National Skin Cancer Study with Adam Goldstein, Kristen Jarman as Co-authors

Medical Student Study and Work Spaces Now Open in UNC Hospitals

Thoma Featured in Healio Rheumatology for Research Regarding Rehabilitation Use Among Black Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Applications Now Open for TraCS TL1 Postdoc Fellowship

NIH and FDA Announce Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity

Saponaro to Retire After More Than a Decade of Service

Improvement Scholars – Call for Letters of Intent

One Year Later, Navigate Continues to Improve Student Care

Reminder: Open enrollment deadline for state employees is Oct. 29

Social and Health Systems 4 (SHS4) course recruiting new faculty