Author Archives: Heather Wilson
December 2018 Patient Newsletter
December holiday hours The winter holidays are here! The UNC Family Medicine Center and our Urgent Care will have modified hours through the end of December and beginning of January. Please read below: 12/21: FMC is open from 8AM-5PM and Urgent Care is open from 7AM-9PM 12/22: Same day clinic at the FMC from 8AM-12PM and Urgent … Read more
November 2018 Patient Newsletter
Let’s talk health with Dr. Neutze: Pneumonia Vaccines for 65+ Every year, pneumonia kills thousands of adults, and leads to many more hospitalizations. Pneumonia is an infection caused by a certain type of bacteria—it can range in severity, from a cough and a fever to a blood infection (call bacteremia), and meningitis (an inflammation around … Read more
Putting Service FIRST
UNC’s FIRST Program allows participants to complete medical school in 3 years and places graduates into UNC’s Family Medicine Residency Program, one of the nation’s best. These students are committed to serving in primary care in rural North Carolina. Learn more about this innovative
NIH Funds UNC Study to Investigate Maternal-Fetal Transmission of Zika
UNC researchers led by Elizabeth Stringer, MD, Sylvia Becker-Dreps, MD, and Aravinda de Silva, PhD, along with collaborators in Nicaragua, have been given a five-year, $2.7 million R01 award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better understand the epidemiology of Zika virus in pregnancy.