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Rheumatologist Beth L. Jonas, M.D., Receives Reeves Foundation Distinguished Professorship

January 17, 2018
Beth L. Jonas, M.D., a leading rheumatology thought leader, has been awarded the endowed Reeves Foundation Distinguished Professorship in Arthritis Research.

Caring for Older Adults: Training 10 Disciplines to Think and Act Interprofessionally

January 17, 2018
UNC’s Division of Geriatric Medicine/Center for Aging and Health Will Hold an Interprofessional Geriatrics Experience

Medicine Grand Rounds, Balfour Sartor and Edward Barnes, “Post-Operative Crohn’s Disease: Current and Future Management”

January 11, 2018
Rescheduled from January 4 — In this lecture, Drs. Sartor and Barnes will summarize an evidence-based approach to the management of post-operative Crohn’s disease, and describe the future landscape based on novel molecular and microbial predictors of risk of recurrence. This topic is clinically important because the majority of patients...

Cardiovascular Grand Rounds: Dr. Faisal Syed, “Sudden Death in Mitral Valve Prolapse”

January 10, 2018
Speaker: Faisal Syed, MBChB, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UNC CardiologyTopic: “Sudden Death in Mitral Valve Prolapse”

McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Nenad Bursac, PhD, “Engineering Excitable Tissues for Experimental Studies and Regenerative Therapy”

January 9, 2018
Speaker: Nenad Bursac, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke UniversityTopic: Engineering Excitable Tissues for Experimental Studies and Regenerative Therapy Presentation Preview: In this talk, I will present our recent progress on engineering of human excitable tissues using primary, stem cell-derived, and genetically engineered cell sources. I will first describe scalable...

Medicine Grand Rounds Cancelled Due to Adverse Weather

January 4, 2018

Spotlight on UNC Educational Resources for Kidney Patients

January 3, 2018
March is Kidney Awareness Month--the time to highlight a disease that affects more than 30 million Americans. It’s important to know the risk factors of chronic kidney disease, like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and family history of kidney disease, among others. Kidney disease can also be caused by...

The UNC McAllister Heart Institute Receives a Grant to Advance a Novel Therapy for Heart Failure

January 3, 2018
A $1.9 Million NIH grant will enable new studies of alpha-1-adrenergic receptors in the heart. Dr. Brian Colwell Jensen, an associate professor in the division of cardiology and the department of pharmacology, will serve as principal investigator for research that considers how metabolic alterations provide cardioprotection.

Featured Physician: Eric Klett, MD

January 2, 2018
Dr. Klett is an assistant professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology and metabolism. His specialty areas include general endocrinology, thyroid disease, lipid disorders, and transgender medicine.

Featured Physician: Jennifer “Jenny” Flythe, MD, MPH

January 2, 2018
Dr. Flythe is an assistant professor of medicine in the division of nephrology. Her specialty areas are hemodialysis patient care and research, advanced kidney disease patient care, patient-centered outcomes research and epidemiology.

Research Highlights: Endocrinology and Metabolism

January 1, 2017
  UNC Diabetes Care members participating in the ADA’s Diabetes Dance Dare John Buse leads the diabetes clinical trials operation Dr. Buse was key to high profile work published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA that will improve care for diabetics both in achieving glucose...

Research Highlights: Hospital Medicine

November 1, 2016
Dr. Ria Dancel is dually appointed in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics. She is the Director of the Medicine Procedure Service, led by proceduralist attendings working with resident physicians to perform diagnostic and therapeutic bedside procedures. This service was created in 2014 in order to provide...