2022 Faculty Speakers
Dr. Toni Darville, MD
Dr. Toni Darville is the Chief of Infectious Diseases at North Carolina Children’s Hospital, the Vice Chair of Pediatric Research at UNC, and Co-Director of the MD-PhD Program. Dr. Darville received her M.D. from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), and completed her Pediatric Residency and Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, where she became Division Chief and Director of the Fellowship Program of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. She has been practicing Pediatric Infectious Diseases for 28 years, and has trained many fellows in Pediatric Infectious Disease. Dr. Darville also remains an active mentor of junior scientists and physician scientists. Her research lab studies Chlamydia trachomatis, the leading bacterial sexually transmitted pathogen. They have discovered immune signaling pathways active in disease development, and are working to develop a vaccine to prevent the morbidities associated with infection in women. Outside of medicine, Dr. Darville and her husband enjoy the sunny days of North Carolina and time with their twin daughters and their wonderful partners, one in Philadelphia with a one year old baby girl, and one in London.
Dr. Stephan Moll, MD
Dr. Stephan Moll is a clinician, clinical researcher, and educator, with a particular focus on thrombosis and anticoagulation. His research interests include clinical trials on venous thromboembolism and better use of anticoagulants, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, and postthrombotic syndrome. A major interest of Dr. Moll is the clinical-medical education of patients, health care professionals, the media, and the general public on venous thromboembolism and anticoagulation. He is a co-founder and the medical director of the UNC Blood Clot Information Program Clot Connect. His clinical interest and expertise include unusual thromboses, unusual thrombophilias, and unusual patient populations (e.g. high-level athletes). Dr. Moll started the UNC “Athletes and Blood Clots Program” with the following aims: (1) to provide state-of-the-art comprehensive clinical care to high-level athletes, (2) to create and make available information/education for athletes and their families, physicians, trainers and coaches, the media and the general public; (3) to engage in and support clinical and basic research on high-level athletes.
Dr. Samuel Cykert, MD
Dr. Cykert is a Professor of Medicine at UNC in General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and was founding director for the Program on Health and Clinical Informatics. He graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine with Highest Distinction and did his Internal Medicine Residency and General Medicine Faculty Fellowship at UNC. He started his career as a solo practitioner in Alamance County and learned firsthand how real world issues led to variations in care. Combining his research training, his role as a founding member of the Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative, and interest in health policy, Cykert has been heavily involved in projects that address cancer, chronic care management, and health care disparities. He has served as principal investigator on several studies including the NCI-sponsored Accountability for Cancer Care through Undoing Racism and Equity system change intervention and the American Cancer Society-sponsored, “Lung Cancer Surgery: Decisions Against Life Saving Care – The Intervention”. Dr. Cykert also led the North Carolina Collaborative in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s “EvidenceNow” Project. The NC group engaged 219 primary care practices caring for over 600,000 adults who achieved significant cardiovascular disease risk reductions especially among rural Black patients in the “Stroke Belt” region of the state.
Dr. Emily Chang, MD
Dr. Emily Chang is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at UNC. She graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in 2007, and was a Nephrology Fellow at UNC from 2010 to 2012. Dr. Chang’s clinical and research focus is on chronic kidney disease. She initially began her research from a basic science focus, looking at mediators of acute kidney injury and fibrosis in the kidney. She now focuses on the development and application of radiologic techniques applicable to patients with chronic kidney disease and all aspects of care related to chronic kidney disease.
Dr. Chang will be presenting on Chronic Kidney Disease with the assistance of Katheryn Cipriani, Community Outreach Director at the National Kidney Foundation.