Author Archives: Kim Morris

William Wood, MD, associate professor of medicine in the division of hematology, is leading the development of a national COVID registry for Hematologic Malignancy. “The intent of the registry is to make data publicly available for health care providers through visualizations and reports, updated regularly,” said Wood, who serves as...

Myron Cohen, MD, the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology, co-authored “Combination prevention for COVID-19,” an opinion article, with University of Washington colleague Lawrence Corey, MD, based on their decades-long research on prevention and treatment of HIV. The article was published in Science Magazine and featured...

Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, a professor of medicine in the division of general medicine, and Alexa Mieses Malchuk, MD, assistant professor of family medicine, told ABC 11 News that “COVID-19 is putting a magnifying glass on health disparities.” Corbie-Smith, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine, recognizes minorities tend to have higher...

Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS, associate professor of infectious diseases and director of infection prevention at UNC Medical Center, emphasized to WRAL news that prevention strategies are still necessary for safety as stay-at-home order eases. “It is still very important to physical distance ourselves from other people,” she said, and “use...

David Weber, MD, MPH, medical director of hospital epidemiology (infection prevention), discussed household cleaners and disinfectants for the coronavirus in a New York Times article. “For a germicide to work, it has to touch the germs,” Weber said.  “If you have a layer of grime, the dirt can protect the...

Stephan Moll, MD, professor of medicine in the division of hematology, is quoted in a new Physicians Weekly article that recognizes anticoagulents in patients hospitalized with COVID “appeared to improve hospital survival times both in and out of the ICU, in an analysis of outcomes among more than 2,700 cases...

Myron Cohen, MD, the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology, told PolitiFact that the number of recoveries is also “not a metric used to calculate the prevalence (current cases) or incidence (new cases) of an infectious disease.” “Recovery, even if it were measured properly, does not reflect...

Myron Cohen, MD, the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology, was interviewed by Science Magazine discussing the importance of continuing HIV prevention trials while recognizing the effects that the coronavirus pandemic may have on trial participants. Cohen, who is the director of the Institute for Global...

Robert H. Lee, PhD, a member of the UNC Blood Research Center and assistant professor in the department of biochemistry and biophysics, has received the American Heart Association’s Kenneth M. Brinkhous Early Career Investigator Award for “Evaluating the Impact of Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Transfusion on Bleeding and Thrombosis in the...

Sue Kirkman, MD, talked to Livestrong.com about prediabetes and what most people should know about the condition. The article explains prediabetes as a condition that occurs when blood sugar levels are high, but not high enough to be considered type 2 diabetes. “It’s sort of an in-between condition,” says Kirkman in the...

John Buse, MD, MPH, talked to Livestrong.com about the key things to know about type 2 diabetes. “Insulin functions as the key that unlocks the door that allows sugar to go from the bloodstream into the cells and tissues to be used as fuel,” explains Buse in the article. He...

Leigh Callahan, PhD, discusses the secrets to creating a walking program you will “stick to,” in a new podcast interview with the Arthritis Foundation. The podcast provides specific, practical methods for beginning and maintaining an exercise routine that is designed for each person’s specific physical needs and personal goals. Callahan...