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Each year, Alumni Affairs solicits nominations for our Distinguished Alumni Awards Program and our Medical Alumni Council. We are pleased to have the opportunity to honor outstanding alumni each year and hope you will consider submitting a nomination for either opportunity by February 18, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n Distinguished Medical Alumni Awards Program<\/strong><\/p>\n We invite nominations in three different award categories: Distinguished Alumni Award, Early Career Achievement, and Distinguished Faculty Award. Information on the award categories and criteria can be found on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nominating a deserving individual is easy! Complete this form<\/a> and provide a statement of nomination outlining 3-5 accomplishments that make the individual deserving of the award.<\/p>\n Medical Alumni Council<\/strong><\/p>\n We also invite nominations for our Medical Alumni Council, a group of enthusiastic and loyal School of Medicine alumni who advise the Alumni Affairs team and the School of Medicine and help broaden our reach among the alumni base. Medical Alumni Council members serve on one committee and are asked to attend twice-annual meetings in the Chapel Hill area. More information about the Medical Alumni Council can be found on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alumni can be nominated by filling out this form<\/a> and telling us a bit about why they are deserving. Self-nominations are also welcome.<\/p>\n We hope you will consider nominating deserving individuals! If you have any questions or need additional information about the nomination process, please contact Alumni Affairs at medalum@med.unc.edu<\/a> or 919-962-8891.<\/p>\n Leon C. Adelman, MD \u201808<\/strong> Katrina H. Avery, MD \u201891<\/strong> Each year, Alumni Affairs solicits nominations for our Distinguished Alumni Awards Program and our Medical Alumni Council. We are pleased to have the opportunity to honor outstanding alumni each year and hope you will consider submitting a nomination for either opportunity by February 18, 2026. Distinguished Medical Alumni Awards Program We invite nominations in three … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112547,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-stories","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2025\/12\/1A4A24082-scaled.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2025\/12\/1A4A24082-300x210.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2025\/12\/1A4A24082-768x537.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2025\/12\/1A4A24082-1024x717.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2025\/12\/1A4A24082-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"Alumni Stories","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/category\/alumni-stories\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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