Category: News

The UNC School of Medicine Academy of Educators inducted Hannah Siburt, Jennifer Womack, and Jason Hrdina into its ranks in May 2020. Siburt is an audiologist with the UNC Hearing and Communication Center and an assistant clinical professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences. Womack is a clinical professor...

Brianne Safer (MS ’20) began a year-long internship with Department of Psychiatry with the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders inpatient unit that transitioned to telehealth care following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

UNC Health Talk recently featured Kristin Somerville, DPT, in an article which provided tips for working from home comfortably during the COVID-19 pandemic.

While the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted clinical rotations for Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students in the Division of Physical Therapy, it gave them an opportunity to learn about telehealth patient care via phone or video chat thanks to a training module launched by instructors.

WRAL recently featured Patricia Johnson, an audiologist at the UNC Hearing and Communication Center and assistant professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences.

Uzma Khan ’20 spent the spring semester interning with two clinical sites: the crisis unit at the Chapel Hill Police Department and the UNC Medical Center heart transplant, lung transplant and left ventricular assist (LVAD) programs; both internships migrated to telehealth platforms as the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Wendy Ross, a clinical coordinator in the Division of Radiologic Science, has teamed up with other volunteers at the UNC-Chapel Hill Be a Maker (BeAM) makerspace where the UNC-Chapel Hill community can design and make of physical objects for education, research, entrepreneurship and recreation to assemble personal protective equipment (PPE) in...

Four master’s of speech-language pathology students have translated an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) resource from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute into Spanish in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  

The UNC Preschool Writing Project team has created at-home learning packets for more than 200 families to be distributed through local Head Start programs in order to support families during the COVID-19 pandemic. The literacy packets, which contain alphabet activities, literacy-based scavenger hunts, and art projects, will be distributed in...

Division of Radiologic Science alumna Amita Bollapragada ’20 began to volunteer with the Crisis Text Line just as the COVID-19 pandemic began.