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New initiatives from the Office of Research address biomedical workforce training as part of Accelerate Forward Together, the new strategic plan for the School of Medicine.

The Offices of Medical Student Education (OMSE) seeks a co-director for the Surgery Course in the Application Phase. The Surgery co-director will work with existing block surgery co-director to oversee the curricular content, organization, assessments, and evaluations for the Surgery Course. Surgery is a required 8-week course for the third-year...

The Offices of Medical Student Education seek a clinical faculty member to oversee Social and Health Systems-5 for the UNC medical students starting in March 2025. Social and Health Systems 5 is longitudinal and designed to develop an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and systems of health...

LAMP is a 9-month program designed to help junior faculty in their first 3 years at UNC build community, purpose, direction, and confidence with career planning guidance from talented speakers from across the UNC system and professional coaching to catalyze their progress. Applications for the next cohort will open in...

The Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development (FALD) would like to announce that our Leader As Coach Fall 2024 cohort has successfully completed the program! In this 7-week program, 20 faculty and staff developed their coaching skills as leaders in the School of Medicine. Since Fall 2022, 107 folks have...

 An ad hoc committee has been appointed to undertake a routine review of the UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the leadership of its chair, Genevieve Neal-Perry, MD, PhD. The review is a standard procedure of UNC-Chapel Hill and will take place on November 21.

The John B. Graham Medical Student Research Society hosted their 57th Annual Student Research Day in Roper Hall on Nov 4. Ned Sharpless, MD, professor of cancer policy and innovation and UNC Lineberger Cancer Center member, was the keynote speaker. Established in 1987, the John B. Graham Medical Student Research...

Lauren Herlihy, DNP, RN, pediatric immunologist and IHQI scholar, has developed a clinical decision support (CDS) toolkit for early peanut introduction in infants to prevent peanut allergy. The toolkit is now ready for adoption by interested physicians at UNC Health. After creating the toolkit, Herlihy piloted it in three outpatient...

We had amazing pumpkins competing for this year’s Triangle West Pumpkin Decorating Contest! Congratulations to the winners!  See the full gallery below! Chapel Hill Campus Triangle West Recognition Committee’s Selection: NSICU UNC Hospitals Leader’s Selection: Pharmacy-Medication History Team People’s Choice Award: Nutrition and Food Services UNC Hospitals, Hillsborough Campus Winner:...

Posters showing the winning images were on display in Bondurant Hall during UNC Research Week.

Ron Falk, MD, Nan and Hugh Cullman Eminent Professor, has announced that he will be stepping down from his role as chair of the Department of Medicine in the summer of 2025. He will continue to serve as professor and co-director of the UNC Kidney Center.

The School of Medicine Office of Research is now accepting applications for the 2024 SOM Translational Science Awards (TTSA). This award is aimed at capitalizing on the “culture of collaboration” at UNC-Chapel Hill to foster new synergistic interdisciplinary teams of basic science and clinical investigators. The deadline is January 15,...