Yearly Archives: 2025

Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, FACOG, has been awarded $2.5M over five years by the National Institutes of Health for her research focused on improving human papillomavirus treatment outcomes in women living with HIV in Africa. Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, FACOG, has been awarded $2.5M over five years by the National...

ABC11 spoke with Dr. Ebony Carter, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist with UNC Health. She said it’s important to understand more about how these types of studies are conducted.

UNC-Chapel Hill and University of Zambia researchers are using cutting-edge medical devices, machine learning and artificial intelligence to tackle global maternal and child health issues while providing quality services to women and children in Zambia.

Lameck Chinula, MBBS, MMED, an Associate Professor of obstetrics and gynecology, recently graduated from the IGCS Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Training Program, a comprehensive two-year education and training program designed for regions around the world that do not currently have formal training in gynecologic oncology. He is the first from Malawi...

UNC-Chapel Hill has been announced as the recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) award. Created by the Office of Research on Women’s Health in partnership with NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices, BIRCWH is a mentored career-development program designed to connect...

We are pleased to announce that Daniel Clarke-Pearson, MD, has been invited to present the James Rose Lectureship at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, on September 17. Dr. Clarke-Pearson is the chair emeritus of the UNC department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Clarke-Pearson will...

UNC Health is launching an OBGYN fellowship dedicated to rural women’s health. And it’s the first of its kind in the nation, according to a news release issued by the health system and Kavita Arora, director of the UNC Rural Obstetrics and Gynecology Fellowship. “The goal of our fellowship is...

The Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program at UNC-Chapel Hill has been renewed for a five-year term. This National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative’s primary goal is to provide Ob-Gyn junior faculty with state-of-the-art training in women’s reproductive health research in an academic setting and to increase the...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Dr. Katelyn Rittenhouse, Global Women’s Health Fellow, has been awarded a K23 Career Development Award from the NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Her project, titled AI-Assisted Ultrasound for Early Pregnancy Localization, aims to improve the diagnosis of ectopic...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Congratulations to Erin Carey, MD, MSCR on her recent publication in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Dr. Erin Carey’s publication, “Clinical Expert Series: Comprehensive Review of Endometriosis Care,” provides an in-depth overview of endometriosis management. It covers pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment options, surgical techniques,...

Chapel Hill, N.C. — The University of North Carolina’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program has once again been recognized among the nation’s best, earning the #4 spot in Doximity’s 2025 national residency rankings. This marks the fifth consecutive year that the program has placed in the top four, a testament...

magine being able to walk into a hospital and perform a basic medical procedure with no previous experience. A portable ultrasound device developed at UNC-Chapel Hill is designed to be used by people with little to no training. The low-cost device guides users through taking a basic ultrasound, then uses...