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    Wohl Answers Questions About COVID-19 Vaccines in Multiple News Reports

    David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, was consulted for a number of news stories about COVID-19 vaccines, the week of April 1-7, 2021. CBS-17: How Vaccines Can Win the ‘Race’ Against COVID-19 Variants – April 5 Thousands of North Carolinians are receiving doses of the COVID-19 vaccine every day. The numbers of cases of the mutated variant s … Read more

  • ‘Why I’m still alive’: A patient’s gratitude, two decades later

  • Fellows Match to the Department of Medicine

    While the pandemic made this year particularly challenging for fellowship recruitment efforts and interviews, a series of videos showing each program’s strengths was a creative solution, introducing viewers to faculty and current fellows, with a brief glimpse into what it might be like to join the program. And although it was impossible to replicate the experience of visiting in- … Read more

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    Ciccone Wins Clinical Research Award From ASTMH

    Ciccone (far right) in Uganda with MUST/UNC staff in front of the Kasese Health Centre. Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS, infectious diseases fellow and pediatric medicine instructor, recently won first prize in the clinical research award session of the 2020 annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The award recognizes excellence in clinical research by you … Read more

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    Scholars Named to Physician Scientist Training Program

    Clockwise, from top left: Alena Markmann, MD, PhD, Erin Steinbach, MD, PhD, Peyton Thompson, MD, Tessa Andermann, MD, PhD As part of the Forward Together Strategic Plan, the UNC School of Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) supports a small number of clinicians committed to translating research findings to advance the practice of medicine in addition to providing … Read more

  • New OGHE Global Health Scholars

    Jennifer Morgan, MD The Office of Global Health Education recently announced the 4th cohort of Global Health Scholars, and two are from the department of medicine. The competitive, two-year, multi-disciplinary program provides funding to support the career and leadership development of residents and fellows with a strong interest in global health. Jennifer Morgan, MD, is a first … Read more

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    Ciccone receives Thrasher Research Foundation Early Career Award

    Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS a clinical fellow in the division of infectious diseases in the department of medicine, received an Early Career Award from the Thrasher Research Foundation. The two-year, $25,000 award will allow her to explore the use of a rapid point-of-care C-reactive protein assay to differentiate viral from bacterial respiratory infections among … Read more