{"id":18315,"date":"2025-04-17T07:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T11:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/?p=18315"},"modified":"2025-04-17T07:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T11:51:23","slug":"unc-center-for-aids-research-member-awarded-the-2025-mridha-spirit-of-neurology-humanitarian-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/2025\/04\/unc-center-for-aids-research-member-awarded-the-2025-mridha-spirit-of-neurology-humanitarian-award\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC Center for AIDS Research Member Awarded the 2025 Mridha Spirit of Neurology Humanitarian Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr. Monica Maria Diaz a member of the UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) has been awarded the 2025 <\/span>Mridha<\/span> Spirit of Neurology Humanitarian Award by the American Brain Foundation (ABF). This humanitarian award recognizes her exceptional dedication to neurology, particularly her altruism, compassion, and leadership in providing quality neurological care to underserved populations. Dr. Diaz is an assistant professor of neurology at UNC, specializing in multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology. She has worked extensively in Peru since 2019, leading studies on neurological conditions such as dementia, cognitive impairment in HIV patients, and transverse myelitis. Her work is focused on improving neurological health outcomes in Latin America. The award honors her significant contributions, which include co-directing a neurology residency exchange program between UNC and a Peruvian university. <\/span><\/span>To read the full article on Dr. Monica Maria Diaz\u2019s work on the UNC School of Medicine\u2019s website, click <\/span><\/span>here<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Monica Maria Diaz a member of the UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) has been awarded the 2025 Mridha Spirit of Neurology Humanitarian Award by the American Brain Foundation (ABF). This humanitarian award recognizes her exceptional dedication to neurology, particularly her altruism, compassion, and leadership in providing quality neurological care to underserved populations. Dr. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120087,"featured_media":18316,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2025\/04\/MonicDiaz.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2025\/04\/MonicDiaz-226x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2025\/04\/MonicDiaz.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2025\/04\/MonicDiaz.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2025\/04\/MonicDiaz-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18318,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18315\/revisions\/18318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}