Tag: 2018

Dr. Marvin McBride is assistant clinical professor of geriatric medicine and medical director of The Cedars of Chapel Hill Retirement Community.

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....

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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@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...

  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,...