Category: Faculty

James Howard, MD, Distinguished Professor of Neuromuscular Disease, was named Medical Professional of the Year by the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America.

Dr. Monica Diaz, assistant professor of neurology, was named as a UNC School of Medicine Simmons Scholar, effective July 2021.

Congratulations to neurologist Angela Wabulya, MBChB, for receiving the $10,000 award.

Professor William J. Powers, MD, is a professor of neurology within the Division of Stroke and Vascular Neurology.

Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery Casey Olm-Shipman, MD, MS, was selected as an AMA Health Systems Scholar, a one-year mentored program aimed at developing Health Systems Science (HSS) leaders. In support of her recent appointment as UNC’s Director of HSS for Graduate Medical Education, Dr. Olm-Shipman’s AMA project will...

The UNC Department of Neurology is proud to announce that child neurologists Senyene Hunter, MD, PhD, and Diana Cejas, MD, MPH, are this year’s recipients of the UNC Broyhill Research Award in Child Neurology.

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The Division of Neuromuscular Disorders has been designated as a Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation Charcot-Marie-Tooth Center of Excellence.

View a video of the online memorial service held on July 23, 2020, for Associate Professor Daniel I Kaufer, MD.

As part of its “Clinical Practice” series, The New England Journal of Medicine published “Acute Ischemic Stroke” by neurologist William J. Powers, MD, in its July 16, 2020 issue.