It is with great pleasure that UNC Family Medicine announces Kevin Tate, MHA, as our department’s new Vice Chair for Administration, beginning on July 12, 2021. He is well-prepared for the role and is committed to serving the department in our multiple missions. Kevin has been with the Department of Family Medicine for 16 years, … Read more
The Alliance for Black Doulas for Black Mamas (ABDBM) graduated its first class of Black Doulas on July 10. Founded by UNC Family Medicine’s Venus Standard, MSN, CNM, FACNM, LCCE, ABDBM offers an enhanced Doula training program whose goal is to increase access of Doula training to Black women, while improving Black women’s birth outcomes by expanding … Read more
Congratulations to the first 100% virtual fellowship class! COVID gave the fellowship the opportunity to demonstrate its flexibility and innovation in curriculum design and adaptive leadership and the 15 fellows of the Class of 2021 taught us as much as we taught them. Pictured below is our last day of class where you can see each … Read more
Congratulations to our 15 faculty members honored with this award in 2020.
The members of the inaugural class of the FIRST (Fully Integrated Readiness for Service Training) Program, Thane Campbell, MD, and Kyle Melvin, MD, will graduate this June.
Linda Myerholtz, PhD, has been elected as the next president of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM). Myerholtz will serve as president-elect for the 2021-2022 term, followed by her term as president.
Margaret Helton, MD, has been named Chair of the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine.
Family Medicine researchers Adam Goldstein and Leah Ranney recently published their findings in JAMA Network Open.
Venus Standard, MSN, CNM, was recently approved to receive the C. Felix Harvey Award for her proposal titled “Perinatal Doulas for the Black Community.”
The UNC School of Medicine announced the acceptance of eight students into the sixth class of the Fully Integrated Readiness for Service Training (FIRST) Program.
Ben Kaplan, MPH, recently published a paper in the Annals of Family Medicine titled “Access, Equity, and Neutral Space: Telehealth Beyond the Pandemic.”
We invite you to join us for 2021 The Healer’s Art Course.
Information on Respiratory Testing At this time, we are taking precautions to make sure the Family Medicine Center is safe for patients, staff and providers. Because of this, if it is determined you need a throat swab, flu test or COVID test we will arrange for you to get this at the Respiratory Diagnostic Center. … Read more
Please join Dr. Sue Slatkoff, other course faculty, and student alumni on zoom to learn about The Healer’s Art course on Monday, November 9 from 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM. Zoom link below: https://zoom.us/j/94422011616?pwd=U1RvY1Rwd0pyT085YnhBajF1Sy9Ldz09 The Healer’s Art course, designed by Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen MD, http://www.rishiprograms.org/healers-art/, will be offered in two formats this year, safe … Read more
