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  • Dr. Buse Honored with 2024 Outstanding Physician Clinician in Diabetes Award

    The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has announced the recipients of the 2024 National Scientific and Health Care Achievement Awards, recognizing individuals who have significantly advanced diabetes care, education and research. Among the esteemed awardees is John Buse, MD, PhD, the Verne S. Caviness Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the UNC Division of Endocrinology and … Read more

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    University of North Carolina Designated as Scleroderma Research and Treatment Center

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named a Designated Scleroderma Research and Treatment Center by the National Scleroderma Foundation. This accolade positions UNC among the two centers in the state to receive such an esteemed recognition. The acknowledgment highlights UNC’s proficiency in providing care for individuals affected by scleroderma, an autoimmune … Read more

  • First comprehensive medical guideline on management of pouchitis released

    Edward Barnes, MD, MPH, co-first author, is an assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and John Haydek, MD, MSCS, author, is an advanced inflammatory bowel diseases fellow. Drs. Barnes and Haydek The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has released the first comprehensive evidence-based guideline on the management of pouchitis, the most c … Read more

  • Study by Dr. Saira Sheikh shows peer-to-peer education increases awareness, engagement, diversity in lupus clinical trials

    The Patient Advocates for Lupus Studies (PALS) Program, funded by Lupus Therapeutics the clinical research affiliate of the Lupus Research Alliance, aimed at increasing the knowledge of, positive attitudes toward, and intentions among people with lupus to join a clinical trial. These results were recently published in The Open Rheumatology Journal, the official open-access journa … Read more

  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program Accredited as Comprehensive Care Center

    The Adult Congenital Heart Association (ACHA) has awarded the UNC Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Program the status of an Accredited Comprehensive Care Center. As an accredited center, UNC will be able to better serve the congenital heart disease community. Due to the advancement of pediatric cardiac surgeries and invasive procedures, patients born with congenital heart di … Read more

  • UNC Hospitals Meets Rising Need for Alcohol-Related Liver Disease

    Hersh Shroff, MD, a transplant hepatologist and assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, has seen the human impact of a recent, rising trend: Severe alcohol-related liver disease with high rates of death or need for liver transplantation. The new IHEAL Clinic at Eastowne addresses this trend. “It’s an overwhelming, scary place to be for … Read more

  • UNC Weight Management Team Receives UNC Medical Center Quality and Safety Team Award

    Drs. Sarah Ro, Sriram Machineni, Jennifer McCauley The UNC Weight Management Team has been awarded a UNC Medical Center Quality and Safety Team Award for their project, “Improving Obesity Treatments in Primary Care.” The project was designed to reduce the financial and geographic barriers to obesity treatments across UNC primary care clinics. The weight management team embedded t … Read more