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PMR Graduate Honored as “Hero of Military Medicine”

LCDR Dr. Matthew Hall in Naval Uniform

LCDR Dr. Matthew Hall, 2018 graduate of UNC’s Preventive Medicine Residency, was honored as one of the Henry M Jackson Foundation’s (HJM) 2021 Heroes of Military Medicine for his front-line work in response to Sars-COV-2 as the BUMED preventive medicine and public health policy advisor as well as his numerous COVID contact investigations, outbreak response oversight, … Read more

Preventive Medicine Resident on “Strike Team” in Orange County

    All of our residents have been heroes in the last several weeks, taking on whatever public health challenges are presented in any capacity that they can.  Dr. Cameron Coleman, current Preventive Medicine Residency co-Chief, has been on the front-lines of the COVID-19 pandemic response with Orange County Health and Emergency Services as a … Read more

Public Health Initiatives moving forward during pandemic

While so many health care workers are understandably focused on COVID-19 at the moment, it is nice to reminded from time to time that other research and scholarship is still ongoing, and initiatives that were already in place are pushing forward in context of the current pandemic reality.  Elizabeth (Betsy) Tilson, a 2000 graduate of … Read more

Preventive Medicine Residency Graduate appointed CEO of CCNC

Tom Wroth, MD, MPH, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Community Care of North Carolina, Inc (CCNC), effective July 1, 2020.  Dr. Wroth is a 2005 Graduate of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program, and has been with CCNC in some capacity since graduation.  He was appointed Chief Medical Officer in 2016 and Chief … Read more