Author Archives: Makenzie Hardy

Dr. Linda Van Le in UNC Health’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology presented and served as a moderator at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health’s annual conference in Los Angeles this month. The theme of the conference was “Global Health Without Borders.” One of Dr. Van Le’s two presentations...

Dr. Noor Abu-Alnadi in the UNC Health Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology was appointed as the department’s Clinical Clerkship Director. In her new role, she will work closely with medical school students during their clerkship.   Dr. Abu-Alnadi is a fellowship-trained Minimally Invasive gynecologic surgeon, and an avid medical educator....

Faculty and residents from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine Department Obstetrics and Gynecology attended and presented at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology’s (SGO) Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer in San Diego, CA. SGO’s Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer is the premier educational and scientific...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology hosted their first OBGYN Medical Education Symposium. The symposium, “Challenges in Medical Education in the 21st Century,” was led by Dr. Omar Young, Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and...

Dr. Katelyn Rittenhouse, a first-year Global Women’s Health Fellow and former UNC School of Medicine OBGYN resident, presented on the association between preeclampsia and HIV infection among Zambian women at the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Denver, CO last weekend. Dr. Rittenhouse presented as a New Investigator...

UNC OBGYN Professor, Dr. Ebony Carter was the Featured Speaker at the 2024 Donald T. Moore, MD, Endowed Lecture on March 20, 2024 from 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. EDT. The annual lecture is hosted by Duke University’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The event was held at the Duke...

Erin Carey, MD, MSCR from UNC Health’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has accepted a formal leadership position with FastTraCS, the MedTech commercialization service at the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Science (NC TraCS) Institute. Dr. Carey will facilitate the engagement of clinicians across UNC Health in FastTraCS initiatives with...

Amy Bryant, MD, MSCR presented alongside fourth year medical students from the UNC School of Medicine at the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Faculty Development Seminar in Amelia Island, FL. Dr. Bryant serves as a faculty advisor for Brittany Cureton, MPH, Sophia McFarlane, MPH, and Madeline Thornton, MPH....

Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UNC Health, was nominated and selected as a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP) Early Career Scientist. In addition to her selection as a DCP Early Career Scientist, Dr. Mungo was invited to...

Kavita Shah Arora, MD, MBE, MS from the UNC Health Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology was invited to speak at the Biden-Harris Administration hosted roundtable discussion this month discussing the barriers to contraception access in the United States. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Xavier Becerra,...

Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD from UNC Health’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has joined the multidisciplinary board of representatives for the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC). Dr. Knittel has been appointed as a NCCHC board liaison for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. Knittel currently serves...

The National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health has awarded an R34 clinical trial planning grant to Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH to support her research that evaluates ways to improve HPV and cervical precancer treatment outcomes among women living with HIV in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Dr....