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February was American Heart Month, the perfect time to advocate for the cardiovascular health of women. Led by Dr. Paula Miller, clinical associate professor in the division of cardiology in UNC’s department of medicine, the 4th annual Women’s Heart Symposium drew nearly 100 women for a day of free education,...

The department of medicine is saddened to share that former colleague Howard Ozer, MD, PhD, passed away on April 6, 2018.

UNC Medical Center congratulated 173 providers who received the 2018 UNC Health Care and UNC Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence. Seventy-one of these were physicians from the department of medicine.

Riches was recently appointed clinical associate chief for the department of medicine's division of hematology and oncology. As a candidate for the LLS Woman of the Year, she's raising funds to support research for patients and their families.

Dr. Sriram Machineni joins the UNC department of medicine's division of endocrinology and metabolism to build a chronic care model.

Research Day is an annual spring event that provides an opportunity for residents to present posters that showcase research as they compete for awards. The medium also gives faculty and residents the chance to have conversations and discuss opportunities for collaboration.

Amanda Nelson, MD, MSCR, and Leigh Callahan, PhD, are interviewed in a Wall Street Journal article about the incidences of arthritis and osteoarthritis, discussing the reasons for an increasing number of affected Americans while recognizing how to reduce disease progression.

Ned Sharpless, MD, director of the National Cancer Institute and former director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, outlined his priorities in a speech at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting and in an interview with the Washington Post.

As a member of Susan G. Komen's Scientific Advisory Board, UNC Lineberger's Lisa A. Carey, MD, chief of the division of hematology and oncology, will be responsible for helping guide Komen’s $956 million research program – second only to the U.S. government in funding of breast cancer research.

Dr. Seth Berkowitz from the division of general medicine and clinical epidemiology led a study that investigated the potential for meal delivery programs to reduce the use of costly health care and decrease spending for vulnerable patients.

Dr. Meredith Gilliam is an assistant clinical professor in the division of geriatric medicine.

Jiandong Liu, PhD, assistant professor of pathology, member of the UNC McAllister Heart Institute, and director of the Zebrafish Aquaculture Core facility, has received a $2-million research grant from the NIH for his project "Molecular regulation of ventricular chamber maturation."