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FIT Wellness Receives $5.5 Million Investment from NCDHHS

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Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of Family Medicine, including Associate Professor Sarah D. Kowitt, PhD, MPH, Professor Leah Ranney, PhD, MA, Kristen L. Jarman, MSPH, and Sonia A. Clark, MHA, published a comprehensive content analysis of cannabis warnings in Preventive Medicine Reports. Co-authors included Rachel Callanan, JD, MNM, and …

A new study co-authored by Sylvia Becker-Dreps, MD, MPH, Joan C. and Robert Huntley Professor of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Director of the Office of Global Health Education, and Filemón Bucardo, PhD, a senior researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill, offers new insight into how a common intestinal parasite may affect children’s growth in early life. …

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Prostate cancer screening is one of the most common decisions men face in primary care, yet many patients make that choice without fully understanding the potential benefits and harms. A new editorial by UNC physician experts argues that shared decision-making should no longer depend on individual clinician effort but instead be …

Pictured (L/R): Kevin Fitzgerald, MPA, Tim Daaleman, DO, MPH, and Marni Holder, MSN, RN

UNC Family Medicine will lead a new effort to improve care for patients with complex health and social needs, following a $1.3 million grant from The Duke Endowment to the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health. The funding will support the Bridge to Health initiative, a pilot program designed to expand hospital-based transitional clinics …

Meet our Chair

Dr. Margaret Helton

Margaret Helton, MD is the Chair of the Department of Family Medicine.

“It is a privilege to provide our patients with excellent care in a nationally recognized department of family medicine,” says Dr. Helton. “Everything we do – from clinical innovation to teaching to research – is in the service of improving both individual and population based health care.”

Meet our Chair