Category: News

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....

Mara Buchbinder, PhD, professor of social medicine, and colleagues at the UNC School of Medicine and Harvard University surveyed obstetrician-gynecologists in 13 states with functional abortion bans to document the impacts on healthcare staff.

Hendrée Jones, PhD, senior advisor of the UNC Horizons Program, was recently elected as chair of the Women & Substance Use Disorders Special Interest Group for the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).

Dr. William Goodnight, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist at UNC Health, discusses the importance of seeing a specialist to ensure a healthy pregnancy and birth. You can also learn more at maternalfetal.uncehealthtalk.org.

UNC School of Medicine presents “Carolina Blue (Med School Anthem),” an all-original production written, directed, and choreographed by the UNC SOM Class of 2026. We hope this video will inspire all future physicians as they embark on a lifelong journey of learning and service.

U.S. News evaluated hospitals from across the nation that provide labor and delivery services and submitted detailed data to the publication for analysis.

The joint study between the UNC School of Medicine and the Orange County Health Department has been awarded a $21 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to make pregnancy and birth safer for North Carolinians with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Alison Stuebe, MD, is the UNC-Chapel...

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....

Dr. Leslie Clark, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been awarded the 2023 APGO Humanism in Teaching Award. The Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) Humanism in Teaching Award honors OBGYN educators from APGO member...