The Student Health Action Coalition (SHAC), a student-led organization that provides health services at no cost to local uninsured and underinsured populations, has selected its incoming cohort of student leaders from the Division of Physical Therapy. SHAC creates a unique interdisciplinary service-learning environment for students across health science programs at UNC-Chapel Hill. To achieve its … Read more

The 2019 Mitchell Symposium featured Elizabeth “Anne” Kinsella, PhD, MAdEd, BsC(OT), an associate professor in the School of Occupational Therapy, and member of the Occupational Science and Health Professional Education Field in the Health & Rehabilitation Sciences graduate program at Western University in Ontario, Canada. Kinsella’s talk, titled “Embodiment and Human Occupation: Implications for Health and Social Care,” focused on how processes of … Read more

An interdisciplinary group of students from the Department of Allied Health Sciences and the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing is traveling next month to Tyrrell County, North Carolina, for an alternative spring break trip. In Tyrrell County, they plan to work with community partners to provide health and wellness education and activities in the community. Tyrrell County … Read more

Jennifer Bidwell is a first-year student in the Physician Assistant Studies program who grew up experiencing the effects of a lack of health care in rural communities. As a student in the class of 2020, she will be equipped to return to a rural environment and to rely on her military training to care for … Read more

Radiology Business, an online publication for value-based care, has featured Issack Boru, a clinical instructor with the Division of Radiologic Science.

Aphasia Access recently featured Katarina Haley, PhD, CCC-SLP, in its podcast conversation series. The podcast featured Haley’s Life Interests and Values (LIV) Cards, which are an instrumental tool in working with people who have neurologic communication disorders. Aphasia Access focuses on bringing resources to those who have aphasia or other communication disorders.

The Daily Tar Heel, the student-run, award-winning newspaper at UNC-Chapel Hill, recently featured Issack Boru ’14, a clinical instructor for the Division of Radiologic Science. Boru also works as a radiology imaging supervisor in UNC Health Care’s Department of Radiology, specializing in MRI imaging.  

FemInEM , an organization that works to provide resources for women working in emergency medicine, recently featured Janelle Bludorn, PA-C, and clinical assistant professor in Physician Assistant Studies, at its annual TED-style annual conference, FemInEM Idea Exchange. More than 800 women attended Bludorn’s talk, titled “Trust me, I’m Not a Doctor,” which focused on how physician … Read more

Margaret ‘Gretta’ Richter, a second-year Doctor of Audiology student in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, has received an appointment for T35 summer research training program at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Richter will work alongside Monita Chatterjee, PhD, on a research project in the hospital’s Auditory Prostheses and Perception Laboratory. … Read more

POPSUGAR, an online publication, recently featured Mary Ellen Wells, PhD, as a sleep expert.