Category: News
Resident receives Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award
Dr. Jason Richards received a Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award at the 2017 UNC School of Medicine’s Whitehead Lecture and Awards ceremony on August 9.
Meet our new faculty
We are pleased to announce the further expansion of our pediatric neurology division with three new faculty members, Drs. Diana Cejas, Ammar Hussain and Yiting Yang. In addition, our ALS clinic will receive support from Dr. Deborah Gelinas, and Dr. Michael Forbes, a former UNC Neurology resident and fellow, will advance into a faculty position with the UNC Comprehensive Stroke Center.
ALS: New Clues to the Cause and How Future Drugs Might Reverse Disease
UNC Neurology’s Todd Cohen, PhD and other researchers team up to reverse TDP-43 protein aggregation, a hallmark of degenerative diseases.
Researchers continue to seek strategy for starving brain tumors
In the journal Cancer Research, UNC Lineberger researchers led by member Timothy R. Gershon, MD, PhD, report in the latest in a series of attempts to shut down the energy production machinery in medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in children. The findings may help researchers identify a suitable therapeutic target within the sugar metabolism pathway, and provide clues to a scientific mystery surrounding the confounding way that some cancer cells get energy from sugar.
WCHL interviews Dr. David Haung for Stroke Awareness month
Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a stroke. Most victims are older, but strokes can happen to anyone regardless of age.
UNC Hospitals Receives Stroke Treatment Achievement Award
UNC Hospitals received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® – Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke℠ Honor Roll Elite Plus.
Remembering Dr. Caroline Klein
The UNC Department of Neurology is deeply saddened by the loss of Dr. Caroline Klein, who died on April 27.
Six UNC Neurology providers receive Carolina Care Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the six UNC Department of Neurology providers who received the 2017 UNC Health Care and UNC Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence.
Division Spotlight: Pediatric Neurology
Paul R. Carney, MD joined the Department of Neurology last fall as the new Chief of Pediatric Neurology, a role well-served by Dr. Robert S. Greenwood for over 33 years.