Tag: 2016

  Brian Jensen, MD Brian Jensen, MD Dr. Brian Jensen’s clinical and investigative efforts focus on heart failure. The Jensen lab uses animal and cell culture model systems to study the mechanisms of heart injury that lead to the clinical syndrome of heart failure. Dr. Jensen has brought clinical questions...

Dr. Duncan is an infectious diseases specialist and physician scientist. He runs a laboratory focused on understanding the role of the human immune system both in protecting us from infection but also in understanding how host immunity is exploited by pathogens to promote infections. His lab studies host immune response...

Chip Pursell and Joan Maradey travelled to Rome to present their findings at the European Society of Cardiology.

Researchers at UNC School of Medicine and UNC Hospitals are leading the charge in Zika research with more than 10 groups currently studying Zika – its transmission, its epidemiology and its associated neurological and birth defects, including microcephaly. Dr. David Weber is a member of UNC Hospitals’ Zika Response Working...

Speaker: Mel Scheinman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Walter H. Shorenstein Endowed Chair in Cardiology, University of California Topic: “ECG Signs Denoting Risk for Sudden Death”

An article published on the Higher Education Works Foundation highlights the kidney transplant story of UNC patient Kevin Howell and donor Lindsay Recchie. Howell, who is the Senior Vice President of External Affairs for the UNC system, is a patient of Dr. Falk. When he needed a kidney transplant, Lindsay...

How close are we to a cure for HIV, and what are the messages about HIV that the community needs to hear? Dr. Ron Falk interviews Dr. David Margolis and Dr. Allison Mathews in this episode about HIV cure research and the efforts of the 2BeatHIV project to connect with...

Dr. Gregg Silverman, NYU Professor of Medicine and Pathology and Co-Director of the Muskuloskeletal Center of Excellence, will discuss the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, incorporating environmental factors, genetic pre-dispositions, and the development of a diverse group of autoantibodies, paying particular focus on anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) and the role of...

The SUDDEN team meets to examine scientific journal articles and discuss how to write effectively when creating abstracts and manuscripts.

The SUDDEN writing committee meets weekly to discuss on-going research projects that students are working on.

“On Lecturing: Tips on Delivering an Effective Lecture”

  David Wohl, MD David Alain Wohl, MD That there are only a handful of Ebola-ologists in the world is something that Dr. Wohl, the Site Leader of the UNC AIDS Clinical Trials Unit at Chapel Hill, realized when the massive Ebola outbreak started to peak in 2014. Ebola raged...