Department of Medicine

The purpose of the Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina is to align research and education with outstanding patient care, and to transform clinical medicine into patient-centered care, delivered with the highest standards of quality, compassion and cost-consciousness, and based on an infrastructure that nimbly adjusts to an ever-changing landscape.

Update on COVID-19 : University Updates UNC Health Updates

Featured News

Studies have shown health-related social needs, which include food insecurity, housing instability, and lack of transportation, are associated with poor health outcomes, more health care use, and higher health care spending. Integrating human services that address health-related social needs into health care may address these issues, but we need better methods to study such programs …

Nigel Key, MD, the Harold R. Roberts Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Pathology and director of the UNC Blood Research Center published a study that identifies the intrinsic coagulation pathway as a potential target to prevent thrombotic and inflammatory complications after RBC transfusion. The article “Red blood cell microvesicles activate the contact system, leading to …

Stephan Moll, MD, professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology and member of the UNC Blood Research Center, announces the reintroduction of Clot Connect, a public service clearinghouse for clinically relevant information on thrombosis, thrombophilia, and anticoagulation information for patients and health care professionals. Established in 2010, the resource was created for …

The UNC Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) program has received reaccreditation from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association as a Comprehensive Care Center (CCC) for the period 2019-2022, building upon their initial accreditation as the first CCC in the state in 2015. This continued designation recognizes the ability to deliver the highest level of inpatient and outpatient care in a multidisciplinary …

Upcoming Events

Apr09

Medicine Grand Rounds – Virtual Lecture – David Margolis, MD, “Towards Treatments to Cure HIV Infection: Work in Progress at the UNC HIV Cure Center”

Thursday 12:00 pm

Apr16

Medicine Grand Rounds – Virtual Lecture – Stephan Moll, MD – “2020 Update on DVT, PE, Anticoagulation and Thrombophilia”

Thursday 12:00 pm

Apr30

Medicine Grand Rounds – Virtual Presentation – Dr. Joe Eron, MD & Dr. David Weber, MD, MPH – “Coronavirus Update”

Thursday 12:00 pm

Featured Physicians

Featured Physician

Dr. Keia Sanderson wrote an essay in the first grade describing how her pediatrician, an African American female, inspired her to achieve. “Very early in my life, she along with my parents made me feel like I could do anything,” said Sanderson, an associate professor of medicine in the division of nephrology and hypertension. She also says her grandmother gave her the best advice about lifelong learning.

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Featured Resident

Dr. Michael Cunningham grew up in Raleigh, and studied biology at the College of Charleston. He was a research technician in the immunology department at Duke before attending medical school at the UNC School of Medicine. Dr. Cunningham enjoys the outdoors with his dog Misha and cooking with his wife.

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Chair’s Corner Podcast

“A biosimilar is similarly effective and similarly safe, and one switch between the originator and biosimilar is shown to be safe and similarly effective.”

-Dr. Hans Herfarth

Biosimilars - with Dr. Hans Herfarth
“The most common question I get is, 'What’s going to happen to me and how long will it take to get better?' A related question is, 'Why did this happen to me?' I think that’s not an uncommon question for any autoimmune disease. We don’t have great answers.”

Dr. Deepa Kirk

Autoimmune Thyroid Disease - with Deepa Kirk, MD
“Initially, we ask people to strictly avoid red meat—beef, pork, lamb, this would include venison, bison, buffalo—anything essentially that has hooves and walks on four legs, we ask them to avoid.”

Dr. Scott Commins

Alpha-Gal Allergy - with Dr. Scott Commins
“I would say don’t just look in your circle. It’s easy to look at your group of friends and your family members, but…there are so many people who know you every day. You’d be surprised what they’re willing to do—to risk their bodies and injury to them. It leaves me with a feeling that I cannot even express with words.”

Kevin Howell, on finding a kidney donor

Kidney Transplant Patient Story – with Kevin Howell

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Autoimmune Thyroid Disease – with Deepa Kirk, MD

Alpha-Gal Allergy – with Dr. Scott Commins

Kidney Transplant Patient Story – with Kevin Howell

Chair’s Corner Podcast

Department of Medicine

Featured News

Berkowitz Proposes Innovative Methodological Approach to Studies that Address Health-Related Social Needs

Key, Mackman, Publish Research in the Journals Blood and Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Moll Announces Reintroduction of Clot Connect

UNC Receives Pulmonary Hypertension Care Centers Accreditation

Upcoming Events

Medicine Grand Rounds – Virtual Lecture – David Margolis, MD, “Towards Treatments to Cure HIV Infection: Work in Progress at the UNC HIV Cure Center”

Medicine Grand Rounds – Virtual Lecture – Stephan Moll, MD – “2020 Update on DVT, PE, Anticoagulation and Thrombophilia”

Medicine Grand Rounds – Virtual Presentation – Dr. Joe Eron, MD & Dr. David Weber, MD, MPH – “Coronavirus Update”

Featured Physicians

Featured Physician

Featured Resident

Chair’s Corner Podcast