Author Archives: Morgan Duerden

Each year, UNC Hospitals administers the Press Ganey Medical Practice survey to solicit feedback from patients. The survey asks our patients about their likelihood of recommending their provider’s practice to their friends and family. This year, 202 UNC physicians and advanced practice providers received the highest recommendations, which places them...

Andrea Azcarate-Peril, PhD, associate professor of medicine, discusses her research into the bacterial communities that live inside our guts and offers tips on how you can maintain a healthy microbiome. Bacteria have thousands of genes and functions that we, the human host, do not have. For instance, bacteria can help...

Nicole Orzechowski, DO, and Vimal Derebail, MD, were featured as vasculitis experts by Healio in a new video series of medical perspectives.

The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty throughout the month of March.  Vimal Derebail, MD, MPH, presented at the Kidney Disease Clinical Trialists meeting. Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH, was interviewed about the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis and the limitations of his team’s...

Preterm birth is common and increases one’s risk for kidney disease. Keia Sanderson, MD, MSCR, has received an NIH K23 award, supported by the NIDDK, to identify maternal and neonatal risk factors to help predict childhood kidney disease earlier. This is a 3-year career development award. Dr. Sanderson, MD, will...

Match Day arrived after an exciting interview season in which 35 outstanding candidates from 20 different states were selected to interview with our program from over 200 applicants. The Department of Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program was successful in our recruitment efforts and we are pleased to announce two new...

Andrew Gilman, MD, was drawn to UNC Gastroenterology because of the mission, collegiality and "how can we help" attitude. From a rural area in California, Dr. Gilman says it it rewarding to provide care to people from remote areas. Outside of work he enjoys fly fishing, diving and hiking. 

A North Carolina native, Lynnee Vaught, MD, earned her undergraduate degree and completed medical school in the state before joining the UNC Internal Medicine Residency Program. She was previously captain of Wake Forest University's Dance Team and a professional cheerleader for the Carolina Panthers.

World Autism Awareness Month, Passover and Easter are celebrated by people across the world during the month of April.

Alejandro Fernandez is a business manager with the McAllister Heart Institute. Originally from Honduras, he has lived in the U.S. for nearly 10 years. Aside from working on a great team Alejandro enjoys being a dad and playing pickleball! Interestingly, he nor his son have a middle name. 

Years of hard work and dreams were folded into envelopes, decorative boxes and other means of message delivery. On March 17th, medical students discovered where their career journey would take them for residency. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Internal Medicine Residency Program paired 27 categorical residents, two...

An eight-legged brown creature about a quarter inch in size could make you want to skip out on your next cheeseburger. Found in North Carolina, the Midwest and Southern U.S., the Lone Star Tick can transmit the alpha-gal sugar, a sugar present in all mammals except humans, into the blood...