Author Archives: Lillian Harbison

The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of July 2025. Joseph Eron, MD, spoke on a newly approved HIV prevention injection. Ruihai Zhou, MD, published in article in JACC on heart attacks triggered by Regadenoson during stress...

Ria Dancel, MD, FACP, SFHM, FAAP, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics in the UNC Division of Hospital Medicine, collaborated with a group of academic teaching physicians to develop the first expert and evidence-based consensus on the core components of a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum for internal medicine residency training in...

Joseph Eron, M.D., the Herman and Louise Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UNC School of Medicine and director of the Clinical Core at the UNC Center for AIDS Research, is spotlighting the potential of lenacapavir, a new FDA-approved, twice-yearly injectable medication for HIV prevention. In clinical trials, lenacapavir showed...

The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of June 2025. David Wohl, MD, had a video interview on injectable PrEP. Sarah McGill, MD, spoke about alpha-gal syndromes’ effect on the digestive system. Onyinye I. Iweala, MD,...

M. Bradley Drummond, MD, MHS, a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Obstructive Lung Diseases Clinical and Translational Research Center at UNC, published a pilot study in the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation suggesting that digital inhaler technology may help predict worsening symptoms in...

Christopher Dittus, DO, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Director of the lymphoma program, is the senior author of a newly published study in the British Journal of Haematology evaluating a novel treatment approach for aggressive adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), a rare and deadly subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that...

Richard Loeser, Jr., MD, Director of the Thurston Arthritis Research Clinic and a Joseph P. Archie Eminent Professor of Medicine, was awarded a $500K grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) for his study entitled,” A novel drug discovery approach for preventing post-traumatic osteoarthritis.” The DoD’s Arthritis Research Program Focused...

Sarah McGill, MD, MSc a gastroenterologist and endoscopist, and Trevor Barlowe, MD, a gastroenterology fellow, have found that a newly-approved treatment for C. diff. infection, called fecal microbiota spores, may be associated with a particularly harmful rebound of infection, compared to traditional therapy. Their results were published in Clinical Gastroenterology & Hepatology. For...

Joshua Zeidner, MD, associate professor of medicine and chief of leukemia research at UNC Lineberger, is the corresponding author of a newly published study on a promising treatment approach for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The early-phase clinical trial, conducted at 12 centers nationwide, tested whether adding the oral menin inhibitor...

Meet Savannah Harris, an Administrative Specialist for the Division of Nephrology! Savannah is in her first year at DoM and already working on developing a mentorship program! What’s your role and how long have you been a part of our Department?   I’m an Administrative Specialist for the Department of Nephrology....

The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of May 2025. Maureen Dale, MD, spoke on the growing demand for geriatricians. Becky White, MD, MPH, is designing an intervention to address HIV prevention needs with the N.C. Formerly...

Barbara LeVarge, MD, a pulmonologist and associate professor at the University of North Carolina Department of Medicine, is using a new cardiopulmonary test, invasive CPET, at UNC Hillsborough to better understand complex conditions. “In my mind, Dr. LeVarge essentially saved my life,” Ed Boiar says. “I have real admiration for...