Author Archives: Lillian Harbison

The five-year relative cancer survival rate for all cancers combined has reached 70% for people diagnosed between 2016 and 2021 in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. For Dr. Haley Simpson, MD, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology, this milestone reflects decades...

Jennifer Maguire, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Division Chief of Inpatient Services for Pulmonary and Critical Care. Tell us a little about how you got interested in education and your background? I first became interested in education during my fellowship when I realized how much I...

The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of December 2025. Research led by Heather Henderson, DVM, MPH, PhD, and David van Duin, MD, PhD, showed neighborhood deprivation drives higher antimicrobial resistance and mortality in Enterobacterales infections. UNC IGHID has been...

The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of November 2025. Chad Pecot, MD: “If you’re, trying to make a difference in cancer, you can’t go slow.” Read the article here. Scott Commins, MD, PhD, was featured in an...

The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of September 2025. Samuel Short, MD,helped develop a calculatorfor physicians to better predict stroke risk in Afib patients David Weber, MD, MPH,commented on the whooping cough spike in NC....

The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of September 2025. Millie Long, MD, MPH, and Edward Barnes, MD, MPH, played key roles in developing the first international guidelines for managing inflammatory bowel disease during pregnancy. Christine...

Evan Dellon, MD, MPH, a Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UNC and the Director of the Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing, led a Phase 3 Trial on using Cendakimab for Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE). His study was published in NEJM Evidence with positive findings. Cendakimab is...

A rheumatologist, neuroradiologist, and computer scientist have joined forces to blend medical expertise with AI/machine learning to reimagine the future of lupus diagnosis and care. Saira Sheikh, MD, the Linda Coley Sewell Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UNC and Chair of the Lupus Clinical Investigators Network, teamed up with  Yueh...

John Buse, MD, the Verne S. Caviness Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the UNC Diabetes Care Center, co-authored STEP UP T2D an international trial. STEP UP T2D found that a higher maintenance dose of semaglutide (7.2 mg once weekly) leads to significantly greater weight loss and improved blood...

Robert Sandler, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease (CGIBD), has announced the renewal of the Center’s P30 Center grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). This...

Millie Long, MD, MPH, Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Edward Barnes, MD, MPH, Co-Director of the UNC Multidisciplinary IBD Center, played key roles in developing the first international guidelines for managing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) during pregnancy, along with Uma Mahadevan, MD, PI...

The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of August 2025. Klara Klein, MD, PhD, will serve as PI for the UNC site investigating cadisegliatin as an adjunctive treatment to insulin in adults with type 1 diabetes. The Division of...