Tag: 2018

Sameer Arora, MD, a UNC School of Medicine cardiology fellow, was nominated for the Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award for Young Investigators in Training for his study showing young women are having proportionally more heart attacks than young men.

The National Liberty Museum honored Balfour Sartor, MD, with its inaugural Healthcare Hero in the Field of Crohn’s Disease for his decades of work to find better treatments for inflammatory bowel diseases.

A landmark UNC study showed that the finger prick blood glucose test is unnecessary for most people with type 2 diabetes, and now researchers Laura Young, MD, PhD from the division of endocrinology, and Katrina Donahue, MD, MPH from family medicine have been awarded $1.3 million to implement their findings...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in women in the United States. Routine screening mammography is recommended by most groups issuing breast cancer screening guidelines. There are, however, important considerations for who should be screened, when screening should start, how often...

Speaker: Dr. Matthew C Zimmerman, University of Nebraska Medical Center

A new Wall Street Journal article tells how gastroenterologists are rethinking the cause and the treatment of diverticular disease.

Dr. Raj Kasthuri is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology and is the Director of the UNC HHT Center of Excellence. He is a member of the UNC Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center and the UNC McAllister Heart Institute. Dr. Kasthuri’s clinical and research interests are...

University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers were awarded $5.5 million to increase colorectal cancer screening, follow-up and care referrals in community health centers in North Carolina.

Dr. Christopher A. Caulfield discusses a UNC hospitalist study that suggests hospitalists can safely aid patients by reducing the costs and adverse outcomes associated with unnecessary hospitalization.

Dr. Ron Falk, Chair of the Department of Medicine, will provide updates on the department. Dr. Wesley Burks, Executive Dean of the School of Medicine, also will make a presentation. This meeting replaces Medicine Grand Rounds and is for faculty, fellows and residents. A boxed lunch will be served. Watch...

Speaker: Dr. Matthias Nahrendorf, Professor, Center for Systems Biology, Harvard UniversityTopic: Myeloid cells in cardiovascular disease