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Category: Oncology

  • Faculty & Staff in the News Throughout June

    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, PhD, did a Q&A on managing care for patients with ins … Read more

  • Faculty & Staff in the News Throughout May

    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 Incarcerated Transitions program. Brad Drummond, MD … Read more

  • Drs' Simon Gray and Jensen

    Drs. Jensen and Gray receive UNC SOM Physician Scientist Training Program Awards

    Drs. Simon Gray (left) and Jeffrey Jensen (right) Jeffrey Jensen, MD, PhD, a hematology/oncology fellow, and Simon Gray, MD, PhD, an assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, received UNC School of Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program awards. Dr. Gray received an Early-Stage Faculty award, and Dr. Jensen received a Resident/Fellowship Award, … Read more

  • Faculty & Staff in the News Throughout April

    The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of April. John Batsis, MD, discussed a rare side effect of statin John Buse, MD, was interviewed about making GLP-1s affordable. Emily Chang, MD, explained 6 behaviors that will help keep your kidneys healthy. Edwin Kim, MD, noted the … Read more

  • Faculty & Staff in the News Throughout April

    The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of April. Drs. Andrew Moon, Hanna Sanoff, Donna Evon  and A. Sidney Barritt IV contributed to a study on improving the quality of life for people with hepatocellular carcinoma. Ashwin Somasundaram, MD, and Hanna Sanoff, MD, MPH, found … Read more

  • 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