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Category: Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine

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    Bice Interviewed by WRAL with Wife Katie, Who Organizes Meal Train for Healthcare Workers

    Thomas Bice, MD, and his wife Katie Bice. Thomas Bice, MD, assistant professor in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, and his wife Katie, were interviewed by WRAL.com for an article about how the local community is supporting healthcare workers. Katie is working with volunteers to prepare individually-packed meals and organize deliveries to UNC Hospital workers. … Read more

  • March- Grants and Funding

    Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: March 1-March 31, 2020

    Division of Hematology and Oncology Nigel Key, MD, ChB, CRCP, received a $180,000 grant for the “Evaluating the Mechanism of Emicizumab-related Thrombotic Microangiopathy.” Tracy L. Rose, MD MPH, received an NCI K08 grant for the project “Selective histone deacetylase inhibition with entinostat to enhance the anti-tumor immune response to immune checkpoint inhibition in urothelia … Read more

  • UNC Receives Pulmonary Hypertension Care Centers Accreditation

    H. James Ford, MD The UNC Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) program has received reaccreditation from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association as a Comprehensive Care Center (CCC) for the period 2019-2022, building upon their initial accreditation as the first CCC in the state in 2015.  This continued designation recognizes the ability to deliver the highest level of inpatient and outpat … Read more

  • Clare Mock, MD

    IHQI Improvement Scholars Announced, Five in Medicine

    Mildred Kwan The Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement (IHQI) has announced projects that will be supported through IHQI’s Improvement Scholars Program. Half of these scholars are members of the UNC Department of Medicine, and they include the following.   Mildred Kwan, MD PhD, with lead Renae Boerneke, PharmD, BCPS, CPP — Reducing the Healthcare Utilization of Broad … Read more

  • Ric Boucher, MD

    Boucher Named to Give Amberson Lecture at American Thoracic Society Meeting

    Ric Boucher, MD Ric Boucher, MD, the James C. Moeser Eminent Professor of Medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, and director of the Marsico Lung Institute, has been named to give this year’s Amberson lecture at the American Thoracic Society meeting, May 15-20 in Philadelphia, PA. The J. Burns Amberson Lecture recognizes a career of major lifet … Read more

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    Wendlandt Receives Weill Research Grant from SCCM

    Blaire Wendlant, MD, MSc Blaire Wendlandt, MD, MSc, a fellow in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, has received a Weill Research Grant from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). Named for SCCM founder and its first president, Max Harry Weil, MD, PhD, MCCM, the SCCM-Weil Research Grant is awarded to SCCM members as a stepping-stone to carry out basic, tr … Read more

  • Subhashini Sellers, MD

    Sellers Explains What to Expect This Flu Season

    Subhashini Sellers, MD Subhashini Sellers, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, discusses the main types of influenza and explains what to expect during the flu season in this UNC Health Talk article. Sellers also provides education about anti-viral drugs for high-risk patients.

  • January- Grants and Funding

    Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: January 1-January 31, 2020

    Division of Hematology and Oncology Erica Sparkenbaugh, PhD, and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics fellow Robert Lee, PhD, have been selected to receive Scholar Awards from the American Society of Hematology’s (ASH). Sparkenbaugh received a $125,000 award to support her research into the mechanisms of thrombin generation and end-organ failure in sickle cell disease. Read … Read more

  • December- Grants and Funding

    Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: December 1-December 31, 2019

    Division of Hematology and Oncology Catherine Coombs, MD, received the Prostate Cancer Foundation’s Young Investigator Award, which awarded $225,000 across three years to study whether genetic mutations that accumulate in the blood over time are linked to worse outcomes for prostate cancer. Read more. Natalie Grover, MD, was awarded a three-year Lymphoma Research Foundation Caree … Read more

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    New Inter-Disciplinary Course with NC State’s College of Veterinary Medicine

    Peadar G. Noone, MD Peadar G. Noone, MD, professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, and Kurt Gilliland, PhD, associate professor in the department of cell biology and physiology, have introduced a new course that will allow medical students to do a two-week elective course in animal medicine during their medical school curriculum.  Wit … Read more

  • November- Grants and Funding

    Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: November 1-November 30, 2019

    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Carla M. P. Ribeiro, PhD, was awarded a $250,000 grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to study novel targets for CF airway mucus production. Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology Dan Jonas, MD, MPH was awarded a $2.2 million grant to address unhealthy alcohol use. Learn more. Division of Nephrology and Hyperte … Read more

  • Barbara Lee LeVarge, MD

    LeVarge recognized in “Carolina Care Highlight”

    Barbara Lee LeVarge, MD (Republished from the UNC Health Care and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom) Our Carolina Care Highlight this week recognizes Dr. Barbara Lee LeVarge from the Department of Medicine’s Division of Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care. Here’s what one of Dr. LeVarge’s patients had to say: “Dr. LeVarge is extremely knowledgeable not only in the disease but ho … Read more