Tag: 2020

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, many faculty in the School of Medicine (SOM) were tasked with restructuring courses and content for medical students to ensure they could effectively finish their semesters and be able to engage in unprecedented learning opportunities in a safe and constructive way. Many leaders...

The Office of Global Health Education recently announced the 4th cohort of Global Health Scholars, and two are from the department of medicine. The competitive, two-year, multi-disciplinary program provides funding to support the career and leadership development of residents and fellows with a strong interest in global health. Jennifer Morgan,...

A Bloomberg article recently featured a key study of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, for Covid-19 protection, that involved 821 health-care workers, first responders and people living with infected patients.  The article reports “half were given hydroxychloroquine for five days, while the other half received a placebo pill that contained the...

Matt Cavender, MD, MPH, FACC, associate professor of medicine in the division of cardiology, recently published a paper in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism with medicine resident Colin P. O’Leary, MD, analyzing new opportunities to utilize real world data. “Emerging opportunities to harness real world data: An introduction to data sources,...

Myron Cohen, MD, wrote an editorial on the results of a clinical trial to determine efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as prevention of COVID-19. As of June 1, 2020, ClinicalTrials.gov listed 203 COVID-19 clinical trials with hydroxychloroquine, 60 of which were focused on prophylaxis — prevention of disease transmission. Researchers just published the latest...

Luther Bartelt, assistant professor in the division of infectious diseases, discussed UNC Health’s participation in a Mayo Clinic study with the Federal Drug Administrations’s Expanded Access Program, an effort to study plasma with antibodies from the blood of people who have recovered from the coronavirus. In NC Health News, Bartlet...

Heart disease does not stop during a pandemic. On May 13, the UNC Health Foundation hosted a webinar featuring four division cardiologists in a panel discussion called “What COVID-19 means for the cardiac patient.” Joseph Rossi, MD, Anil Gehi, MD, John Vavalle, MD, and Paula Miller, MD, participated in a...

Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology Amanda Nelson, PhD, received a $1.7M, 5-Year NIH Grant to demonstrate the utility of ultrasound osteoarthritis (OA) assessment and standardize scoring, utilizing data from a population-based community cohort. Learn more.

Ross Simpson, Jr, MD, PhD, professor medicine in the division of cardiology, was interviewed for an MSN article “50 Warnings Signs You Have Heart Disease” that identifies a variety of signs, symptoms and risk factors that can help identify heart disease before it becomes life-threatening. “Chest pain is the most...

How hepatitis A virus (HAV) manages to enter liver cells called hepatocytes and initiate infection had remained a mystery for fifty years until now. University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers designed experiments using gene-editing tools to discover how molecules called gangliosides serve as de facto gatekeepers to allow...

A nationwide collaboration of clinicians, informaticians, and other biomedical researchers aims to turn data from hundreds of thousands of medical records from coronavirus patients into effective treatments and predictive analytical tools that could help lessen or end the global pandemic. Through the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, about 60 clinical institutions affiliated...

The UNC Health Respiratory Diagnostic Center (RDC) opened last month with a drive through Quick Treat and Care and Treat unit to monitor and screen patients with respiratory symptoms that may be associated with coronavirus. Led by David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, the...