Tag: 2018

Enrollment of UNC Health Care System (UNCHCS) patients into the multi-site Aspirin Dosing: A Patient-centric Trial Assessing Benefits and Long-Term Effectiveness (ADAPTABLE) study has reached 581 participants, exceeding the UNCHCS site's original enrollment target of 500 participants.

Dr. John Buse is the director of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (TraCS), featured on the American Diabetes Association (ADA) TV for advances in diabetes research during the 2018 ADA Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

Unnecessary hospitalizations expose patients to unnecessary costs and risks. This is the premise for a recent retrospective study performed by physicians within the division of hospital medicine.

UNC Medical Center nationally ranked in five adult specialties, scored as high performing in five more. Four other UNC Health Care hospitals rated high performing for common adult procedures and conditions.

New diagnostic tests could offer a quicker diagnosis for impaired kidney function, for not only people in Africa, but in other places with limited resources, as well as disaster events like hurricanes and earthquakes that affect people around the world.

In 2017, Dr. David Weber and colleagues published a study in the American Journal of Infection Control about the effectiveness of ultraviolet light and hydrogen peroxide for cleaning hospital rooms. As the most read study, it recently earned an award of publication excellence.

Michelle Floris-Moore, MD, MS has been elected to serve board of directors for the HIV Medicine Association.

Dr. Ma has been awarded the 2018 Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Excellence in Teaching Award in the Basic Sciences. Faculty are nominated by departments and students, and the recipient is selected by students who have completed the second year. 

Five faculty members from the department of medicine have been selected to the UNC School of Medicine's Academy of Educators.

UNC hospitalists publish a study that describes the effectiveness of counseling hospitalized patients with alcohol withdrawal, using naltrexone.

A major gift from Rita Bigham will enable UNC interventional cardiologists to perform more life-saving heart procedures in Nicaragua.

Darren DeWalt, MD, MPH, has been selected by the board of directors of the NC Institute of Medicine (NCIOM) to the prestigious honor of membership.