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Category: Featured Physician

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    Featured Physician: Kenton Dover, MD

    Dr. Kenton Dover comes from Bear Grass, North Carolina, and was a Protestant minister prior to studying medicine. His desire to help people, especially in the most challenging of life’s circumstances, ultimately led him to pursue a career as a physician in pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine. In addition to clinical work, he’s interested in quality improvement, palliati … Read more

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    Featured Physician: Shakira J. Grant, MBBS

    Dr. Shakira Grant was born in Barbados and says she knew around the age of 11 or 12, when her grandfather was diagnosed with lung cancer, that she would become an oncologist. She also says UNC felt like home when she visited, and it was the “ease of conversation, welcoming smiles, and the collegial atmosphere” that helped her know UNC was the place to be.

  • Cynthia Gay, MD, MPH

    Featured Physician: Cynthia Gay, MD, MPH

    Dr. Cynthia Gay came to UNC for a fellowship in Infectious Diseases, drawn to the results-driven research of UNC faculty and their open-minded approach. She says both the big and small impact on patients is easily the best part of her work. Sometimes this means being the person who listens. Sometimes it’s about making a patient laugh, while providing a safe place to talk about HI … Read more

  • Claire K. Larson, MD

    Featured Physician: Claire K. Larson, MD

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

  • Ria Dancel, MD, FAAP

    Featured Physician: Ria Dancel, MD

    Dr. Ria Dancel is an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics in the division of hospital medicine. She’s also associate chief for education and director of UNC’s Medicine Procedure Service. Dr. Dancel specializes in care of hospitalized adults and children, bedside ultrasound at the point of care, ultrasound guided procedures and resident education.

  • Marvin McBride, MD, MBA

    Featured Physician: Marvin McBride, MD, MBA

    Dr. Marvin McBride is assistant clinical professor of geriatric medicine and medical director of The Cedars of Chapel Hill Retirement Community.

  • Meredith Gilliam, MD

    Featured Physician: Meredith Gilliam, MD

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

  • Jenny Flythe, MD. MPH

    Featured Physician: Jennifer “Jenny” Flythe, MD, MPH

    Dr. Flythe is an assistant professor of medicine in the division of nephrology. Her specialty areas are hemodialysis patient care and research, advanced kidney disease patient care, patient-centered outcomes research and epidemiology.

  • Eric Klett, MD

    Featured Physician: Eric Klett, MD

    Dr. Klett is an assistant professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology and metabolism. His specialty areas include general endocrinology, thyroid disease, lipid disorders, and transgender medicine.

  • Maureen C. Dale, MD

    Featured Physician: Maureen C. Dale, MD

    Maureen C. Dale, MD, is an assistant clinical professor in the division of geriatric medicine. Her specialty areas include outpatient primary geriatric care, geriatric syndromes including frailty and cognitive impairment, care of hospitalized older adults and graduate medical education in geriatrics.

  • Gerald Hladik, MD

    Meet the Program Directors: Gerald Hladik, MD

    Dr. Hladik is the Doc J Thurston Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Acute Dialysis Unit, UNC Hospitals; Director, Nephrology Training Program; Chief, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension

  • Ashley Henderson, MD

    Meet the Program Directors: Ashley Henderson, MD

    Dr. Henderson is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine and is Program Director of the Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program.