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Awards and Achievements

- Congratulations to Dr. Andy Bomback on the publication of his first book You're Too Wonderful to Die.  It's a fiction novel about a UNC Intensivist who forms a special bond with a CF patient awaiting a transplant.  You can buy it online at amazon.com or locally at Internationlist Books or Market Street Books. 

- Congratulations to Cheryl Davis and others on her recent publication in American Journal of Cardiology!

- Congratulations to Andy Bomback on his recent publication!  Click here to read about snakes and ACE Inhibitors.   

- John Vavalle and others recently published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, click for link. Congratulations, John!

- Congratulations to Tyler Buckner (PGY-3) on being elected president of the UNC Housestaff Council for 2007-08!

- Congrats to residents who have posters accepted to 2007 NC ACP Scientific Meeting: Bridger Clarke, Carrie Cox, Amber Khanna, Jake Marais, Sid Shah, Rebecca Vento, Gretchen Shaughnessy.

- Harriet Purves Burns has published What North Carolinians Can Expect from the Healthcare System: Eleven Things Learned During a "Special" Month of Residency Training. in NC Medical Journal Sept/Oct 2006.

- Eric Edwards (PGY-2) has published "Lithium Treatment Prevents Neurocognitive Deficit Resulting from Cranial Irradiation" in Cancer Research. Congratulations Eric!

-Sachin Patel's (PGY-2) poem "Call Room" has been published in an anthology called Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience, and will be available November 2007 at Barnes & Noble and other retail bookstores.

- Bridger Clarke's (PGY-1) abstract: Treatment of Biliary Strictures Secondary to Chronic Pancreatitis: Comparison of Temporarily Placed Covered Self Expandable Metal Stents (CSEMS) vs. Plastic Stents was accepted for presentation at the 2006 American College of Gastroenterology National Conference.

- Morgan McDonald (PGY-4, Med-Peds) was elected President of the 2006-2007 UNC Housestaff Council   

- Dick Wardrop (M-P PGY-5, Medicine Chief) has a paper in the upcoming issue of Gene Therapy on preventing the development of inhibitor antibodies in hemophiliac mice.

- Dick Wardrop  presented in San Francisco at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Congress in January, 2006. Topic: "Risk factors for development of nosocomial infection in pediatric intensive care".

- Nate Lambert (PGY-4, Medicine Chief), Joe Eron and others published a case report in the June 20, 2006 Annals of Internal Medicine titled "Chagasic encephalitis as the initial manifestation of AIDS". PMID# 16785485

- Phuong Doan (PGY-4, Medicine Chief) and Evan Dellon published a case report on chronic Budd-Chiari syndrome in a March, 2006 issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. PMID# 16527683

- Andy Bomback's (PGY-3, Medicine) piece titled "Errands" was published in the Feb 15, 2006 issue of JAMA. PMID# 16478890 

- Andy Bomback's piece titled "The physical exam and the sense of smell" was published in the Jan 26, 2006 issue of NEJM. PMID#16436763

- John Vavalle (PGY-3, Medicine) presented a poster titled " Diabetic Muscle Infarction: An Often Missed Complication of Diabetes" at the North Carolina ACP conference Feb, 2006

- Sid Shah (PGY-3, Medicine) and Holly Humphrey (PGY-2, Medicine) presented a poster titled "Tale of a Broken Heart: Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy" at the North Carolina ACP conference in Feb, 2006

- Sid Shah and others presented a poster at the National ACP conference in April, 2005 titled "What Good are the Guidelines? Are Patients with LVSD Receiving Proper Management?"

- Cheryl Lowry (PGY-2, Medicine) presented a poster titled "Decreased Exercise Tolerance in Patients with Previously Undiagnosed Diastolic Dysfunction" at the AHA Scientific Sessions in November 2005.

- The Carolina Companion - a book of evidence based internal medicine and pediatrics case reports - is the brainchild of Dick Wardrop and Allen Liles.  Medicine and pediatrics residents are authoring individual chapters based on real cases taken from the UNC wards.