Category: Maternal Fetal Medicine

Omar Young, MD, FACOG from UNC Health’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has received the Professional Development Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Health Professions Education. The program, Health Humanities: Dismantling Structural Injustice in Healthcare, advocates for integrating the humanities in health professions education. “This virtual longitudinal...

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...

When Kimberly Mays was about 20 weeks pregnant with her second child, she began to feel faint and overheated. An ultrasound revealed that Mays’ baby had a very rapid heart rate.

Micah and Malachi Plumber just turned 1—a major milestone for any child. Watching the adorable twins crawl, giggle and play with their older sister, Kinsley, it’s hard to believe they had a medical condition that required surgery when they were still in their mother’s womb.

UNC and Vanderbilt are the only hospitals in the southeast to perform the EXIT procedure on babies between womb and birth.