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Featured Physician: Ria Dancel, MD

June 4, 2018
Dr. Ria Dancel is an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics in the division of hospital medicine. She's also associate chief for education and director of UNC's Medicine Procedure Service. Dr. Dancel specializes in care of hospitalized adults and children, bedside ultrasound at the point of care, ultrasound guided procedures...

Research Highlights: Hospital Medicine

June 1, 2018
Complex Care Committee Develops Individualized Care Plans – Beth Ann Brubaker, MD   Individualized care plans (ICPs) have been created for patients who are high utilizers of inpatient resources. In some cases this high utilization has been due to fractioned/inefficient medical care and in other cases due to social/addiction issues....

Medicine Grand Rounds, Saira Sheikh “BAFFling New Lupus Therapies – Looking to the Future After Decades of Failed Clinical Trials”

May 31, 2018
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, debilitating autoimmune disease with heterogeneous manifestations ranging from scarring skin rash or arthritis to severe, organ-threatening involvement of the kidneys, heart, lungs or central nervous system. SLE is characterized by the presence of autoantibodies against nuclear antigens, which are thought to be caused...

UNC’s Olafur Palsson featured in national media

May 30, 2018
Olafur Palsson, professor of medicine, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal and at tonic.com for his work on hypnosis to treat IBS.

Autoimmune Podcast Series Wins “Best in Category” at NCPRSA InSpire Awards

May 25, 2018
The UNC department of medicine has received an “Award of Excellence” and “Best of Category” for the Chair’s Corner podcast series Pieces of the Picture.

Medicine Grand Rounds, Tony Mazzella, Rosanne Tiller, Russell Coletti, and Alyssa Tilly, “Chief Resident Year in Review”

May 24, 2018
Tony Mazzella and Rosanne Tiller will present Multidisciplinary Bedside Rounds, their project to restructure rounds with a consistent multidisciplinary team presence at the patients’ bedsides to have a clinical discussion with the most important team member: the patient. Alyssa Tilly will discuss the Professional Development Coaching Program, a modality to...

The Heart of a Researcher

May 22, 2018
At the UNC School of Medicine, researchers come to their work through various paths. For Wanda O'Neal, PhD, her tireless dedication to researching cystic fibrosis and lung conditions was born from a very personal place -- a family with six kids with cystic fibrosis.

Current Evidence Does Not Support More Frequent Colorectal Cancer Screening

May 22, 2018
Hanna Sanoff, MD, MPH, has evaluated new evidence into whether more frequent colorectal cancer screening is more effective than a lower intensity surveillance strategy to improve detection of cancer recurrence and overall survival for non-metastatic colorectal cancer.

McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: David Zawieja, PhD, “Lymphatics: the link between the parenchyma, cardiovascular and immune systems”

May 22, 2018
Speaker: David Zawieja, PhD, Regents Professor and Department Head of Medical Physiology, Texas A&M University College of MedicineTopic: Lymphatics: the link between the parenchyma, cardiovascular and immune systems

NOTES from Japan

May 18, 2018
In 2016, Dr. Ian Grimm completed a summer sabbatical in Japan, where he studied endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) with master endoscopists at nine major medical centers throughout the country. He has since applied these cutting-edge skills within our growing UNC Advanced and Therapeutic Endoscopy Program.

UNC@DDW 2018 Schedule

May 18, 2018
  UNC@DDW2018 UNC Gastroenterology travels to Washington, DC on June 2nd-5th to give over one hundred and twenty presentations at this year’s Digestive Disease Week (DDW). DDW is the world’s largest gathering of physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy, and gastrointestinal surgery, and showcases the best...

Research Spotlight: Anne Peery, MD, MSCR

May 18, 2018
  Anne Peery, MD, MSCR Dr. Anne Peery is a gastroenterologist with a research focus on understudied and common gastrointestinal diseases that have a significant impact on quality of life and healthcare costs. She earned her medical degree at the UNC School of Medicine, where she also completed her internship,...