Category: News

On the late afternoon of March, 19, 2024 faculty, staff, patients, and stakeholders from Neurology, Neurosurgery, the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), UNC Hospitals, and UNC School of Medicine gathered to celebrate the official launch of the Focused Ultrasound program at Marsico on UNC campus. Focused Ultrasound therapies involve an...

A landmark study lead by Dr. Ian Shih, could alter how researchers interpret results from functional magnetic resonance imaging.

The Adult Neuro and Child Neuro residency programs are pleased to announce our newly matched residents! Thank you for all the support of our residency coordinator team, our faculty, and our top rated residents for helping recruit and match this stellar group of future residents. Residents – we extend a...

Neurology 2023 Wrap Up Newsletter by Lindsey Womack

UNC Neurology Faculty Dr. Nina Browner and Movement Disorder Fellow, Dr. Abigail O’Reggio assisted in developing the American Association of Neurology online course “NeuroBytes: Task Specific Focal Dystonia – “Writer’s Camp”‘ Course Description: Task specific dystonia is a commonly missed focal dystonia. This is in part due to the symptoms...

Head for the Cure 5K 2024 was an incredible success! A record number of participants gathered at Southern Village in Chapel Hill, NC on Saturday, February 25, 2024 to support Brain Cancer treatment and research. Through incredible community support, Head for the Cure 2024 beat it’s own previous fundraising efforts!...

  The UNC Neurocritical Care fellowship obtained ACGME accreditation in January 2024.  The two-year fellowship graduated the first fellow in 2016 and has expanded to two positions per year since 2018.  The fellows rotate through a 22-bed neurocritical care (NCC) unit and other critical care electives, with an emphasis on milestones...

Congratulations! Dr. Rebecca Traub has been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN). Fellow status recognizes outstanding work and accomplishments in neurosciences, clinical neurology, academic/administrative neurology, within the AAN, and the community. Traub specializes in neuromuscular diseases, as well as inflammatory and hereditary nerve and muscle...