Author Archives: Kim Morris

UNC researchers led by Nancie Archin, PhD, and David Margolis, MD, have shown that interval dosing of the drug Vorinostat reverses HIV latency and is well-tolerated in people living with HIV. However, while Vorinostat makes latent HIV easier to detect, it does not clear or deplete infection, meaning additional advances...

YOUR HEALTH® featured Paul Chelminski, MD, MPH, a professor of general medicine and director of UNC’s physician assistant program, on WCHL 97.9.

Congratulations to department of medicine providers who received the 2017 UNC Health Care and UNC Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed funding for the UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellows Program. This five-year grant (2017-2022) supports mentored training at 16 affiliated sites in low- and middle-income countries. All are affiliated with at least one of the UJMT consortium’s four U.S. institutions: UNC-Chapel Hill, Johns...

UNC Professor of Medicine Joseph Eron, MD, from the division of infectious diseases, has been named Vice Chair of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). The ACTG is the largest network of research sites in the world dedicated to finding a cure for HIV, as well as opportunistic infections that...

Sarah Smithson, MD, MPH, has published "Screening Adults for Depression in Primary Care" in the July issue of Medical Clinics of North America.

Recent work in the lab of Victoria Bautch, PhD, co-director of the UNC McAllister Heart Institute, sheds light on how trafficking proteins produced by endothelial cells blunt signaling proteins that control vessel growth and patterning, processes that affect disease.

Dr. Scott P. Commins was a guest on WUNC's The State of Things on July 11, 2017. In his interview with Frank Stasio, Dr. Commins talked about piecing together the meat allergy puzzle.

Gerald Hladik, MD, chief of the division of nephrology and hypertension, has been featured in a Hospitals and Health Networks article explaining the need for early detection of kidney disease.

UNC Project Malawi is a partnership with the Malawi Ministry of Health focused on research, care and training in the capital city of Lilongwe. The project was featured on ABC-11 News.

The 2017 Raven Rock Ramble raised over $30,000 last month to assist kidney patients with emergency needs, while also promoting awareness of organ donation. The annual event celebrates the joy of cycling after one man’s kidney transplant. It also gives back to a continuum of care at the UNC Kidney...

Ronald Falk, MD, Chair of the Department of Medicine has announced that Linda Raftery has been appointed Vice Chair for Administration