Category: UNC Health & SOM Newsroom

UNC Health is proud to announce that four members of our team were honored by the Triangle Business Journal as recipients of a 2026 Health Care Leadership Award. Dr. Jeffrey Stringer – Healthcare Innovator/Researcher What motivates you in your everyday work? Improving access and quality of obstetrical care for women in poor...

Alisa Eanes ’08, ’15 (MD) graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and continued on to the UNC School of Medicine with support from the Carolina Covenant. Inspired by and grateful for her experiences, she is now giving back to the state as an OB-GYN in western North Carolina.

On having the BIRCWH award return to UNC-Chapel Hill, PI Dr. Lisa Rahangdale said, “The BIRCWH program has been influential for many successful women’s health researchers and leaders at UNC. We are thrilled to have the program back and to welcome our new scholars and their mentorship teams to the...

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...

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...

Four North Carolina families share their journey in experiencing Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, a rare condition that can result in fetal loss. Read their stories of hope, fears, and overwhelming gratitude for expert care at UNC Hospitals.

UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill and UNC Health Rex in Raleigh made the Newsweek list CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Two UNC Health Hospitals have been named to Newsweek’s “America’s Best Maternity Hospitals 2025” list: UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill, NC) UNC Health Rex (Raleigh, NC)

 Jeffrey S. A. Stringer, MD, FACOG, has been named the inaugural recipient of this distinguished professorship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dan and Katchy Clarke-Pearson have extended a decades-long legacy of supporting women’s health through the establishment of the Drs. Daniel and Kathleen Clarke-Pearson Distinguished Professorship in Obstetrics and...

The UNC Medical Center was one of five UNC Health hospitals across North Carolina recognized for providing top maternity care by U.S. News & World Report. This is the fourth consecutive year that UNC has been ranked among this list, which began in 2021, rating hospitals that provide labor and...

UNC School of Medicine 4th-year medical student Emily Broaddus has plans to start her residency in June. She shares more about the devastating loss of her partner which led her to want to pursue patient advocacy, reproductive justice, research and education.

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).