Dr. Falk interviews Celeste Lee in this special episode on patient engagement. Celeste is described by Dr. Falk as an “astonishing leader and ferocious advocate for patient engagement,” and discusses the process of getting patients to become advocates for their health. She is also joined by her husband Daniel Lee, PhD on a discussion about being a caregiver and including patient engagement in the health system. Celeste’s work in patient engagement spans the University of Michigan, the Kidney Health Initiative, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), and she draws on her own experience as a patient with vasculitis, which she also relates here. Dr. Daniel Lee is a Professor and Chair of Health Policy and Management for the Gillings School of Global Public Health.

The SUDDEN team travelled to Surry County to meet with a prevention task force to discuss public health measures to prevent sudden unexpected death.

  Jill Williams, RN and Peggy Mattingly accept their SCOPY award. Congratulations to Jill Williams, RN, and Peggy Mattingly for winning a SCOPY award from the American College of Gastroenterology in the category of Best Video from an Academic Center. This award recognizes the colonoscopy video they developed which is now used by UNC Gastroenterology’s … Read more

Featuring The 15th Annual Ernest and Hazel Craige Lecture KEYNOTE SPEAKER Roger S. Blumenthal, MDDirector, Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Centerfor the Prevention of Heart DiseaseThe Kenneth Jay Pollin Professor of CardiologyJohns Hopkins Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology PROGRAM DIRECTORS George A. (Rick) Stouffer, III, MDChief, Division of CardiologyHenry A. Foscue Distinguished Professor of MedicineMedical Center Physician … Read more

Guest Speaker: Roger S. Blumenthal, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease; The Kenneth Jay Pollin Professor of Cardiology; Johns Hopkins Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology

Speaker: J. Kevin Harrison, MD, Professor of Medicine, Structural Heart Specialist, Duke UniversityTopic: “TAVR for Intermediate and Low Risk Aortic Stenosis Patients”

The UNC School of Medicine discovery could lead to more effective, personalized treatments for the debilitating gastrointestinal condition.

Type 2 diabetes is a major and growing contributor to poor health outcomes globally. Clinical science has conclusively demonstrated that glycemic control reduces the risk of microvascular complications – eye, kidney and nerve disease. For cardiovascular disease, blood pressure and lipid management, smoking cessation and antiplatelet therapies are effective in reducing risk. However, great controversy … Read more

What is heart failure, and what are the newest options for treatment and care for heart failure patients? Dr. Ron Falk interviews Dr. Patty Chang in this podcast about heart failure. Dr. Chang is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the University of North Carolina. She directs the Heart Failure and Transplantation Program as well as the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship Program at UNC.

Awareness, Assessment and Treatment of Burnout Medicine is facing an era of rapid and continuous change in nearly every way. The profession of medicine also is approaching an epidemic of physician burnout — a complex and systemic issue that is receiving increased attention from both within and outside the field of healthcare. Novel and systemic … Read more

Speaker: Frank Conlon, Ph.D, Professor, Biology—UNC Topic: “Proteomic Based Approaches to Cardiac Development and Disease”

Speaker: Olivia Gilbert, MD. Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology Fellow, University of North Carolina.Topic: “Evolution of the LVAD”