Yearly Archives: 2019

(Chapel Hill, N.C. – May 2, 2019) – A team of clinical researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received $14 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct two studies aimed at improving pregnancy outcomes in the world’s poorest countries. An interdisciplinary team...

Congratulations to Dr. Sharon Vaz, a resident in the UNC OB-GYN Class of 2019, for winning Best Resident Presentation at this year’s North Carolina OBGYN Society meeting. Vaz was honored for her presentation entitled, “The Breaking Point: Delayed vs Early Amniotomy in Labor Induction.” Vaz’s study was a retrospective cohort...

Dr. Jennifer Mersereau will become the next chief of UNC OB-GYN’s Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) on May 1, 2019. The division’s longtime chief Dr. Marc Fritz has decided to step down after 26 years and will continue as a fulltime clinician and as practice director for UNC Fertility....

Meg Berreth, MSN, CNM, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Division of Midwifery, is one of eight nurses who were honored April 3 at the 2019 School of Medicine Nursing Recognition Awards. Each year the medical school and its physicians recognize outstanding achievement by nursing professionals as a...

Dr. Neeta Vora, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and Dr. Erica Davis at the Duke University Center for Human Disease Modeling have been awarded an exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.  Their research was initially funded by...

Erin Carey, MD, director of the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at UNC OB-GYN, is principle investigator for a project on gynecologic pain that has received a 2019 Innovation Pilot Award of $50,000 from the School of Medicine. Her co-principle investigator is Dr. Rahima Benhabbour of The Department of...

UNC’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has announced its residency Class of 2023, who found out they had matched with our department on March 15, 2019. They come from as far as Kansas and as close as our own UNC School of Medicine Our incoming residents are: Jenna Adams –...

Many members of the UNC Gynecologic Oncology faculty presented at Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, March 16-19, 2019. This was SGO’s 50th meeting on women’s cancers. To see a list of faculty and their posters and presentations, view the list here.

When University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physician and researcher Elizabeth Stringer, M.D., M.Sc., finished her OB-GYN residency in 2001, she and her husband, Jeff, had one young child and another on the way, and were considering the next steps in their careers and lives. “We had both become...

Evette Horton, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Horizons Program, has been elected president of the Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling. Her tenure begins July 1, 2019. The Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling (ACAC) is a national division of the American Counseling Association with a mission to support...

Samantha had “a million excuses” for why she didn’t want to come to the UNC Horizons Program, she says. She had a family who needed her – a loving son, a dedicated husband who was her high-school sweetheart, and three dogs as beloved as her child. She was also embarrassed...

Samantha’s time at the UNC Horizons Program started with a surprise. She arrived with sons B., 3, and R., 3 months, around Christmastime when Horizons’ supporters donate gifts for the program’s women to select for their children. “Knowing that I could provide something for my kids was a really big...