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Category: Infectious Diseases

  • David Wohl, MD-Roundup-Covid-News-February-2022

    Wohl Encourages Continued Vigilance As NC Considers Reopening

    David Wohl, MD David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, comments on UNC Health’s preparedness and capacity to treat patients for a potential surge of coronavirus as NC reopens. In a WRAL news interview he recognizes efforts trying to “open up the economy and get businesses going on,” but he says “there’s got to be a calculation that we’ll prob … Read more

  • David Weber, MD, MPH

    Weber Commended By Fort Bragg Lieutenant General and William Roper

    David Weber, MD, MPH David Weber, MD, MPH, medical director of hospital epidemiology (infection prevention), has been commended by Fort Bragg’s US Army Commanding Lieutenant General Michael Kurilla for his “leadership and critical partnership with Fort Bragg and Womack Army Medical Center.” Kurilla’s letter expressed gratitude for Weber’s efforts, which he said are not only vital … Read more

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    Boyce Discusses Coronavirus Antibody Tests On WRAL News

    Ross Boyce, MD, MSc Ross Boyce, MD, MSc, assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, said there are many unknowns about COVID-19, the illness associated with the virus, and antibody testing. The article reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently ordered increased oversight of the hundreds of tests now on the market, some of which may p … Read more

  • Myron Cohen, MD

    Cohen Inducted Into Order of the Golden Fleece

    Wesley Fowler, MD, and Myron Cohen, MD Myron Cohen, MD, Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology and Epidemiology and director of the UNC Institute for Global Health, joined Wesley Fowler, MD, associate dean for medical alumni affairs, as new inductees into the Order of the Golden Fleece, UNC’s oldest and most prestigious honor society. Read … Read more

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    Wohl Addresses NC’s Partial Reopening on WRAL

    David Wohl, MD (Credit: WRAL News) David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, addresses a partial reopening in North Carolina in a WRAL interview. “This is a hard train to stop so we haven’t all been able to stay at home to stop the transmission completely, from person to person, but we’ve made great strides,” Wohl said. “I think it’s going to s … Read more

  • David Weber, MD, MPH

    Weber Discusses Possibilities Of Second COVID Wave

    David Weber, MD, MPH David Weber, MD, MPH, medical director of hospital epidemiology (infection prevention), talked with ABC 11 News about new concerns for a second wave. The story reports that Weber “believes it’s not a question of when we’ll have more peaks but how big they are.” Weber, a professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, says “we’re not going to kno … Read more

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    Q&A With David Wohl on COVID-19 and HIV

    David Wohl, MD (Credit: TPAN) David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, offered insight into the current pandemic based on what he witnessed during the Ebola epidemic in an interview with Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN)’s Positively Aware. “Right now, what holds for people living without HIV holds for people living with HIV,” Wohl said in th … Read more

  • Adaora A. Adimora, MD, MPH

    Adimora Addresses Concern For the Effects of COVID-19 Among People Living With HIV

    Adaora A. Adimora, MD, MPH Ada Adimora, MD, MPH, the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the division of infectious diseases, expressed concern in an interview with Healio Infectious Disease News, about the lack of studies regarding the specific impact of effect of COVID-19 in people living with HIV (PLWH). “People with well-controlled HIV have an excellent … Read more

  • Schranz Asher, MD

    Schranz Receives Grant from NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse

    Asher Schranz, MD, MPH Asher Schranz, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, has received a grant from the NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for the project “Drug-use associated infective endocarditis: Post-hospitalization outcomes and patient treatment preferences.” Schranz’s research is broadly focused on the intersection of i … Read more

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    Novel Primary Care Model Promotes Lifelong Comprehensive Care for People Living with HIV

    Shana Ratner, MD, associate professor in the division of general medicine, and section chief for education and clinical practice, announces a novel collaboration with the division of infectious diseases that includes a multidisciplinary primary care clinic to serve people living with HIV. The new model lays the groundwork for multidisciplinary care in advance of the move to Easto … Read more

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    Cohen Comments On Fauci and Birx As National COVID-19 Advisors

    Myron Cohen, MD Myron Cohen, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, has known NIH Director Anthony S. Fauci, MD, and Deborah Birx, MD, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, since the 1980s, he told the Washington Post in a recent interview. Speaking on their partnership as scientists and public health officials, he emphasized that “the pair … Read more

  • David Wohl, MD-covid-newsworthy-january-14-20

    Wohl Discusses Testing Shortages With New York Post

    David Wohl, MD David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, says the signs were clear in early February and that was the time to ramp up, in the New York Post article “Rich and famous get COVID-19 test but average people can’t.”  Wohl expresses his concerns about “a serious lack of preparation and coordination” in overall response. Find the articl … Read more