Author Archives: Kristen Hendrickson

Congratulations to department faculty who received the following accolades, awards and appointments,  November 1 – November 30, 2025. Cynthia L. Gay, MD, MPH, was promoted to Professor of Medicine. Michelle Floris-Moore, MD, MS, was promoted to Professor of Medicine. Meredith Gilliam, MD, MPH, was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine. Tiffany Long,...

The Department of Medicine conducts impactful basic, translational, and clinical research across 11 affiliated research centers, and ranks 14 in NIH funding with investigators receiving $109 million annually for research in areas as varied as cancer immunogenetics, the microbiome, HIV, diabetes therapies, and clotting disorders. This is an archive of...

Congratulations to faculty who have secured new grants in the UNC Department of Medicine, September 1 – September 30, 2020. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Jennifer Goralski, MD, received an NIH K23 grant to study “Quantitation and Spatial Registration of Airways Dysfunction With Dynamic 19F MRI In Cystic...

Welcome to faculty who joined the UNC Department of Medicine between February 15, 2020-March 20, 2020. Welcome to our new faculty who joined the Department of Medicine, December 15, 2019-January 15, 2020. December 16, 2019 Welcome to our new faculty who joined the Department of Medicine, November 1-December 15, 2019....

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...

Congratulations to these senior residents in the UNC Internal Medicine Residency Program who did exceptionally well in their fellowship matches. Cardiology Bryan Abadie – Cleveland Clinic McGinty Chilcutt – UNC Grayson Eubanks – UNC Godly Jack – Emory Ben Stoner – Kentucky Clinical Informatics Seyi Fayanju – Stanford Endocrinology Sydney...

The UNC Department of Medicine is pleased to recognize the following new fellows who recently matched to subspecialty training programs. They will start July 1, 2020. Division of Cardiology Adult Cardiology Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Interventional Cardiology Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Division of Geriatric Medicine...

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Congratulations to our faculty who have secured new grants in the Department of Medicine, October 15-November 15, 2019. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Carla M. P. Ribeiro, PhD, was awarded a $250,000 grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to study novel targets for CF airway mucus production. Division...

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New Research in ANCA Vasculitis This research is a successful collaboration between basic and translational scientists, epidemiologists, geneticists, and nephropathologists. The themes of the projects mirror questions that patients frequently ask: what causes their disease, what will make their disease better or worse, and what will assure that their disease...

Congratulations to our faculty who have secured new grants in the Department of Medicine, July 1 – September 1. Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Shehzad Z. Sheikh, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology, and post-doctoral fellow Takahiko Toyonaga, MD, PhD, have received a...