{"id":33559,"date":"2019-06-13T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=33559"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:34:03","slug":"ciccone-receives-thrasher-research-foundation-early-career-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/ciccone-receives-thrasher-research-foundation-early-career-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciccone receives Thrasher Research Foundation Early Career Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24996\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/02\/emily-ciccone.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/02\/emily-ciccone-300x250.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/02\/emily-ciccone-300x250.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/02\/emily-ciccone-1024x855.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/02\/emily-ciccone-768x641.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/02\/emily-ciccone-1536x1282.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/02\/emily-ciccone-600x501.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/02\/emily-ciccone-301x251.jpeg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/02\/emily-ciccone.jpeg 2045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS a clinical fellow in the division of infectious diseases in the department of medicine, received an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrasherresearch.org\/early-career-award?lang=eng\">Early Career Award<\/a>\u00a0from the Thrasher Research Foundation. The two-year, $25,000 award will allow her to explore the use of a rapid point-of-care C-reactive protein assay to differentiate viral from bacterial respiratory infections among malaria-negative children at the UNC-Chapel Hill research site in western Uganda. The overall goal is to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use without compromising safety in an area where access to care is a real issue.<\/p>\n<p>Ciccone is the fourth division of infectious diseases resident to receive a Thrasher Research Foundation Early Career Award. Previous recipients were Ross Boyce, MD, MSc, and Jonathan Parr, MD, MPH, both currently assistant professors in the UNC School of Medicine\u2019s division of infectious diseases in the department of medicine; and Matt Collins, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Emory University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS a clinical fellow in the division of infectious diseases in the department of medicine, received an\u00a0Early Career Award\u00a0from the Thrasher Research Foundation. The two-year, $25,000 award will allow her to explore the use of a rapid point-of-care C-reactive protein assay to differentiate viral from bacterial respiratory infections among malaria-negative children at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/ciccone-receives-thrasher-research-foundation-early-career-award\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ciccone receives Thrasher Research Foundation Early Career Award\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":24996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[640,100,2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-33559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fellowship","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-84","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ciccone receives Thrasher Research Foundation Early Career Award | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/ciccone-receives-thrasher-research-foundation-early-career-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ciccone receives Thrasher Research Foundation Early Career Award | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS a clinical fellow in the division of infectious diseases in the department of medicine, received an\u00a0Early Career Award\u00a0from the Thrasher Research Foundation. 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