Author Archives: Kim Morris

The New York Times featured UNC's Senior Mentor Program from the division of geriatric medicine in an article published on October 12.

When a patient presents with signs and symptoms suspicious for a tick-borne illness, medical providers in central North Carolina regularly test for Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, but often don’t think about Ehrlichia, according to researchers.

A pilot initiative at UNC Hospitals Hillsborough Campus will design elder care training to build dementia-friendly hospitals and communities. An advisory board meeting took place on September 26, 2018.

Study review led by Dr. Sameer Arora wins high impact award for cardiology research.

The department of medicine plans to create a differentiating multi-disciplinary care experience, that will be delivered in a time and cost-efficient patient-centered manner.

Chief resident Dr. Alison Raybould joins the cast of a new season of Survivor, competing for $1 million.

Dr. Ria Dances says point-of-care (POCUS) ultrasound is the next step in the evolution of internists, enhancing physical diagnosis skills and patient-physician relationships. She has published two papers about POCUS in the Journal of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

Dr. Claire Larson is clinical assistant professor of geriatric medicine.

Julia Sung, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, has proven the safety of a new immunotherapy to re-educate the body’s immune system to better fight HIV infection. The results were recently published in the journal Molecular Therapy.

UNC researchers led by Elizabeth Stringer, MD, Sylvia Becker-Dreps, MD, and Aravinda de Silva, PhD, along with collaborators in Nicaragua, have been given a five-year, $2.7 million R01 award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better understand the epidemiology of Zika virus in pregnancy and the impact...

UNC researchers led by Arlene Chung, MD, MHA, reviewed more than 300 apps in the health and fitness categories of app stores for hands-free, voice-activated assistants, including Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant; they found very few had a clear health focus.

In a new study, John Vavalle, MD, and colleagues, found that TAVR may lead to improved patient outcomes and lower health care costs.