{"id":46675,"date":"2020-09-20T09:06:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T13:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=46675"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:59:54","slug":"adimora-receives-uncs-thomas-jefferson-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/adimora-receives-uncs-thomas-jefferson-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Adimora Receives UNC\u2019s Thomas Jefferson Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38032\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 276px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/10\/adaora-adimora.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/10\/adaora-adimora-266x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Adaora A. Adimora, MD, MPH\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/10\/adaora-adimora-266x300.jpeg 266w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/10\/adaora-adimora-301x339.jpeg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/10\/adaora-adimora.jpeg 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"discreet\">Adaora A. Adimora, MD, MPH<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The annual Thomas Jefferson Award recognizes a UNC faculty member who, through personal influence and performance of duty in teaching, writing and scholarship, has best exemplified the ideals and objectives of Thomas Jefferson. UNC faculty members nominate candidates for the honor, which carries a cash prize; a faculty committee chooses the recipient. Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, PhD, presented the award to Adaora Adimora, MD, PhD, during a virtual meeting of the Faculty Council last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Adimora is a tireless champion for people afflicted with HIV in North Carolina, the South, across the U.S. and globally,\u201d Guskiewicz said during the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/som-vital-signs\/2020\/september-17\/adimora-receives-unc2019s-thomas-jefferson-award?utm_source=vs-email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=38\">UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Thomas Jefferson Award recognizes a UNC faculty member who, through personal influence and performance of duty in teaching, writing and scholarship, has best exemplified the ideals and objectives of Thomas Jefferson. UNC faculty members nominate candidates for the honor, which carries a cash prize; a faculty committee chooses the recipient. Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/adimora-receives-uncs-thomas-jefferson-award\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Adimora Receives UNC\u2019s Thomas Jefferson Award\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":38032,"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":[100,2],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-46675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-629","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adimora Receives UNC\u2019s Thomas Jefferson 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\/adimora-receives-uncs-thomas-jefferson-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adimora Receives UNC\u2019s Thomas Jefferson Award | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The annual Thomas Jefferson Award recognizes a UNC faculty member who, through personal influence and performance of duty in teaching, writing and scholarship, has best exemplified the ideals and objectives of Thomas Jefferson. 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