Author Archives: Kim Morris

(Republished from the UNC Health Care and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom) UNC’s William A. Fischer II, MD  and David A. Wohl, MD are part of an international group of authors who contributed to the New England Journal of Medicine‘s “Perspective” article: Shifting the Paradigm — Applying Universal Standards of Care to Ebola Virus...

Joseph Eron, MD, division chief of infectious diseases, was part of an expert panel focused on specific information and educational needs of health care professionals involved in diagnosis and treatment of HIV.  (Republished from the UNC Health Care and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom) Contagion, the nation’s leading digital and...

Two faculty within the UNC Division of Infectious Diseases were honored during the joint meeting of the Association of American Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation in Chicago. Jonathan Juliano, MD, MSPH, was inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). Founded in 1908, the ASCI is one of...

Each spring, the Academy of Educators (AOE) invites UNC School of Medicine faculty to nominate up-and-coming faculty with a passion for teaching medical education and educational scholarship. This year, the AOE had an unprecedented number of applications – over 100 applications were received. The AOE also launched a new Mentored Member...

The UNC School of Medicine celebrated Match Day on March 5, 2019, a nationally recognized day when medical students open sealed envelopes to learn where they will spend the next several years as resident-physicians. The complex process matches program preferences with the preferences of the nation’s graduating medical students, and the...

Paul Godley, MD, PhD, MPP, UNC School of Medicine’s Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, and the Rush S. Dickson Distinguished Professor of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Medicine, passed away Sunday, March 31. The funeral service will be held Saturday, April 6. (Republished from the UNC Health Care and...

The Stuart O. Bondurant, MD, Dean Emeritus Memorial Lecture took place on March 14, 2019, honoring Bondurant’s countless contributions to medicine and his service to the UNC School of Medicine as Dean and CEO for over 15 years. Dr. Andrew Greganti paid homage to Bondurant’s memory with a lecture called...

Congratulations to 77 faculty physicians and advance care providers from the department of medicine who received the 2019 UNC Health Care and UNC Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence. Every year, UNC Health Care administers the CG-CAHPS (Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) survey to...

Maya Styner, MD, and Janet Rubin, MD recently contributed to an article in Nature Reviews that considers how leveraging cell mechanosensitivity from exercise may help combat osteoporosis and obesity. The article recognizes that key regulatory signals are generated during exercise which are mechanical in nature and considers how signals arise...

For the second year in a row, the University of North Carolina School of Medicine was ranked first in the country for primary care education as part of U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” (Republished from the UNC Health Care and UNC School of Medicine...

Many people leave their estate to family members, but without children of her own, Dr. Alice Ma says she’ll be leaving her estate where her heart is, with the hematology fellows, a group she fondly considers her own. Dr. Ma's bequest will go to training in nonmalignant hematology.

After a widespread search, Ron Falk, MD, chair of the department of medicine has named Laura C. Hanson, MD, MPH, director of the department's palliative care program, and Gary Winzelberg, MD, MPH, has been named the associate director.