Category: Spotlight

National Physician Assistant Recognition Week – October 6 thru 10, 2020 – Thank you to all our PAs for the wonderful care you provide to our patients!

Tom Bush, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP is the first APP to join UNC’s Medical Staff Executive Committee as a Member-At-Large Out of 14 candidates, Tom was voted in to represent UNC’s Advanced Practice Providers on the MSEC. Part of this process involved the candidate writing a one to two paragraph statement...

Thank you to all our Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners as we acknowledge all the invaluable contributions you make to patient care in our hospitals, outpatient clinics and other healthcare settings!

November 3 – 9, 2019 marked UNC’s 2nd Annual APP Recognition Week – Thank you to all our Advanced Practice Providers as we acknowledge all the invaluable contributions you make to patient care in our hospitals, outpatient clinics and other healthcare settings!

National Midwifery Week is October 4 – 10, 2020. National Midwifery Week was created by ACNM to celebrate and recognize midwives and the midwife-led care. Thank you to all our CNMs for the wonderful care you provide to women and their families!

Lynn Fitzgerald Macksey, MSN, CRNA is a Nurse Anesthetist with the Department of Anesthesiology at UNC Hospitals. She is a public speaker and an accomplished author of eight books and peer-reviewed journal articles in the field of adult and pediatric anesthesiology. She has been a Nurse since 1979 and earned...

Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN is an advanced practice oncology nurse who has over 40 years of cancer nursing practice, education, research, and management experience. She earned a PhD from the University of Utah, her MSN from Yale University, her BSN from Excelsior College, her Nurse Practitioner Certificate...

Hepatitis C has fast become an important Public Health concern in 2019, that if not treated, can lead to not only increased healthcare utilization costs in the coming years but can lead to poor quality of life for patients including cirrhosis, liver failure, and hepatocellular carcinoma.  According to the Center...

APPs at UNC Health Care have Big Hearts SECU Family House Dinner On February 16, 2019, UNC CRNAs hosted a dinner at the SECU Family House in Chapel Hill. As part of celebrating CRNA week, Marcia Guine CRNA, MSN organizer of the event, thought it would be a great way to...