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Category: Oncology

  • Ethan Basch, MD

    Electronic reporting of symptoms by cancer patients can improve quality of life and reduce emergency visits

    People with metastatic cancer who regularly report their symptoms via a home-based electronic monitoring system experienced improved quality of life, clinical outcomes and well-being, as well as fewer emergency department visits than those who didn’t file reports. Both groups had similar overall survival rates, according to University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Ca … Read more

  • Featured Staff Member: Christine Wilkins

    Meet Christine Wilkins, an Administrative Specialist in the Division of Oncology and a member of the DOM Teammate Council! What’s your role and how long have you been a part of our Department? Administrative Specialist, 3 years in May.  Where are you from? I was born in San Antonio and moved to Brooklyn when I was very, very young after leaving New York my mom and I landed in Nor … Read more

  • Faculty and Staff in the News Throughout January

    The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of January. Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, shared strategies for staying healthy during the holidays Amanda E. Nelson, MD, MSCR, provided insight into the development of a new diagnostic test for osteoarthritis and its potential impact o … Read more

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    Yara Abdou Co-Published an Editorial on Funding Gaps in Cancer Clinical Trials

    Yara Abdou, MD Yara Abdou, MD, an assistant professor in the Division of Oncology published a  Journal of Clinical Oncology editorial with Norman E. Sharpless, MD. They responded to a new study by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center that found enrollment in industry-sponsored cancer clinical trials doubled between 2008 and 2022 while federally supported trial enrollment remained fl … Read more

  • UNC Lineberger, V Foundation Launch Multimedia Initiative to Boost Diversity in Clinical Trials

    UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the V Foundation for Cancer Research have created a multimedia campaign to promote equity in cancer clinical trial participation. This initiative was designed to reduce disparities in clinical trial enrollment among racial and ethnic minority populations. Research has demonstrated that clinical trials have a critical role in advancin … Read more

  • August- Grants and Funding

    UNC Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: August 1 – August 31, 2024

    The following Department of Medicine faculty members received the following grants or funding. Division of Oncology Yohei Hisada, PhD, was awarded $50K for his research in leukemia at the 2024 ISTH conference in Bangkok Brian Miller, MD, received the Melanoma Research Alliance Young Investigator Award for $250k.  Division of Gastrology and Hepatology Aadra Bhatt, PhD was awarded … Read more

  • July- Grants and Funding

    UNC Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: July 1 – July 31, 2024

    The following Department of Medicine faculty members received the following grants or funding. Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology Lara Longobardi, PhD, received an R01 renewal from NIH to study the “Role of CCR2 in osteoarthritis”. Leigh Callahan, MD, has been named Principal Investigator for the UNC site of a $17M dollar osteoarthritis prevention study (TOPS) tri … Read more

  • Dr. Painschab Awarded $2.7M NIH DPI Director’s Pioneer Award

    Matthew Painschab ,MD, an assistant professor in the UNC Division of Hematology and Director of Adult Oncology Research for UNC Project Malawi, recently received an NIH DPI Director’s Pioneer Award (NDPA) in the amount of $2,721,250 for his project, “Innovations in diagnosis for lymphadenopathy across HIV Centers of Excellence in Malawi.”   The NIH NDPA supports research from cre … Read more

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    95 Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers Awarded 2024 Carolina Care Excellence

    Each year, UNC Hospitals administers the Press Ganey Medical Practice survey to solicit feedback from patients. The survey asks our patients about their likelihood of recommending their provider’s practice to their friends and family. This year, 205 UNC physicians and advanced practice providers received the highest recommendations, which places them in the top quartile nationall … Read more

  • January- Grants and Funding

    Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: January 1 – January 31, 2024

    Division of Oncology Lisa Carey, MD, received a $225K grant titled, “Clinical implications of metastatic subtype, microenvironment, and organ of involvement.” Joannie Ivory, MD, was granted $240K for her project, “Participant Enrollment in a Multi-Site Randomized Clinical Trial of Endocrine Therapy Adherence Support.” Yara Abdou, MD, was awarded $240K to investigate molecular res … Read more

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    Accolades, Awards and Appointments Archive

    Congratulations to department faculty who received the following accolades, awards and appointments, February 1 – February 28, 2025. The lab of Jason Mock, MD, PhD, received an R01, $2.5M,  from the NHLBI to study the contribution of host genetic variability through which regulatory T cells promote reparative processes and their response to glucocorticoids. Co-investigators inclu … Read more

  • Abdou, Ivory receive career development awards from the Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Program

    Joannie Ivory, MD, and Yara Abdou, MD Yara Abdou, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Division of Oncology, Dominique Higgins, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurosurgery, and Joannie Ivory, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Division of Oncology, recently received career development awards from the Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Program. The award provides $120, … Read more