Vital Signs | Newsroom

Kimberly Shoenbill, MD, PhD, has been named the new director of the UNC Clinical Informatics Fellowship.

This year, UNC Hospitals and UNC Faculty Physicians celebrate the empathy and expertise of 202 of our physicians and advanced practice providers with the 2023 Award for Carolina Care Excellence. This year, patient feedback put these providers in the top quartile nationally.

NC TraCS Institute is seeking proposals that focus on understanding a scientific or operational principle underlying a step of the translational research process, with the goal of developing generalizable principles to accelerate translational research.

An ad hoc committee has been appointed to undertake a routine review of the Department of Genetics and the leadership of its chair, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, PhD, professor and Olivier Smithies Investigator. The review is a standard procedure of UNC-Chapel Hill and will take place on April 24.

Yoshiko Iwai, MS, a third-year student at the UNC School of Medicine, is the corresponding author of a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

Medical students Amanda Nemecek, Bailey Moran, Bassam Shawamreh, Forrest Wilke, Kayla Tennant, and Maggie Crouse have been accepted into the Fully Integrated Readiness for Service Training (FIRST) Program. The students were selected based on their commitment to the specialties of family medicine, pediatrics and psychiatry.

UNC-Chapel Hill is part of a national effort funded by the National Institutes of Health Diversity Program Consortium to identify best mentoring practices for scientists underrepresented in biomedical research.

This award honors faculty who merit recognition for significantly contributing to the advancement of interprofessional education and practice by developing intentional opportunities for students to learn from, with, and about each other to advance health.

The UNC School of Medicine is accepting applications for bridge and boost funding. The deadline for applications is April 24.

David Wohl, MD, and Billy Fischer, MD, published an op-ed in the News & Observer, The Charlotte Observer, and McClatchy subsidiaries on their work trying to gain a better understanding of COVID-19 through a largely observation study of thousands of volunteers in North Carolina.

A UAB-UNC School of Medicine collaboration found that a single oral dose of the common antibiotic azithromycin reduced the risk of maternal sepsis or death by 33 percent in women who delivered vaginally. UNC School of Medicine study leads were Melissa Bauserman, MD, MPH, Carl Bose, MD, and Jackie Patterson, MD, MPH.

The University of North Carolina School of Medicine (SOM) seeks an innovative, collaborative leader to serve as the Assistant Dean for Preclinical Curriculum in the Offices of Medical Student Education. This position reports directly to the Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs and requires 40% FTE. Applications are due by Sunday, February 26.

Shoenbill Named Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director

Celebrating our Physicians and APPs’ Exemplary Practice of Carolina Care

New Round of NC TraCS Clinical and Translational Science Pilot Funding Available

Five-Year Review of Department of Genetics Chair

UNC School of Medicine Student, Faculty Pen Research Letter on US Prison Policies on Organ Donation

FIRST Program Accepts Eighth Class

PROMISE Study Seeking Underrepresented Faculty for Peer Group Mentoring Research

Nominations Due March 13 for Julie Byerley Award for Faculty Excellence in Interprofessional Education and Practice

SOM Office of Research Accepting Applications for Bridge and Boost Funding

NC COVID Experts: We Still Have Blind Spots Understanding the Virus. You Can Help.

Single Dose of Azithromycin Reduces Maternal Sepsis or Death

UNC School of Medicine Seeks Assistant Dean for Preclinical Curriculum