The Third Annual Clarke-Pearson Lectureship is set for October 16, 2024, from 7 AM to 8 AM EST, and will be held virtually via Zoom. After last year’s success with over 200 attendees from across the country, this year’s event will feature Dr. Amanda Nickles Fader, a Professor of Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Oncology at Johns … Read more

During pregnancy, you see your care team regularly to ensure everything is on track. You might take classes and read books to get ready for the baby or write a birth plan and make checklists of supplies to buy. Still, nothing can truly prepare you for bringing a newborn home, where there may not be a plan … Read more

  UNC OBGYN Department of Chair, Dr. Genevieve Neal-Perry accepted the Mentorship Award from SRI, Society for Reproductive Investigation, on March 15, 2024, at the 71st Annual Scientific Meeting in Vancouver, Canada. The award was established in 2003 to annually recognize mentoring within the scientific community, with special emphasis on the career development of junior … Read more

UNC has been awarded one of only two NIH-funded center grants (P01 mechanism) to establish an Endometriosis Research Center. The Center will be led by Steven Young, MD, PhD, a professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Endometriosis is a common disease affecting over 5% of … Read more

Food Allergy & Eczema Observational Study: Help us learn more about what factors put babies and toddlers at higher risk for developing food allergies and eczema. This is an observational research study, which means we will follow you and your child from birth to 3 years to learn more about how allergies develop. See study … Read more

New Rochelle, NY, February 17, 2021—Nearly half (46.7%) of women in the U.S. at risk for HIV have been incarcerated, according to a new study. The study is published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Women’s Health. Click here to read the article now. The incarceration rate for women at risk for HIV was 5.5 per 100 person-years, compared … Read more

UNC Global Women’s Health has received two new grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for work on pregnancy outcomes in Zambia. The first grant funds the “Multi-omics for Mother and Infants (MOMI) Consortium,” which seeks to identify new predictive biomarkers for preterm birth, preeclampsia, stillbirth and fetal growth restriction. UNC Project-Zambia is one of … Read more

The UNC Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program is pleased to announce that Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD, FACOG, has been appointed as a WRHR Scholar effective December 1, 2020. Dr. Knittel completed her research fellowship in the Division of General Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2018 and was subsequently appointed Assistant Professor of Obstetrics … Read more

by Shannon Keller, CNM As my excitement to meet new families and see their friendships begin with the start of a new CenteringPregnancy® group rose, a new threat to this connection— COVID-19—hit the world.  At UNC, we did not cancel our centering groups. Instead we transitioned to  a virtual social group for women and their … Read more

From the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health More women than ever are choosing to breastfeed with widespread recognition of the benefits. Breastfeeding is recommended as the sole source of nutrition for the first six months in a child’s life, followed by continued breastfeeding with the addition of nutritious complementary foods for at least … Read more

The UNC Horizons Program has a number of new positions open: Residential Advisor (temporary) Early Childhood Development Practitioner Social Work Practitioner The UNC Horizons Program (part of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UNC-Chapel Hill) is a substance use disorder treatment program for pregnant and/or parenting women and their children, including those whose lives … Read more

UNC OB-GYN is proud to serve our western Wake County patients at the new UNC Health Care Panther Creek medical campus in northwest Cary. Located at 6715 McCrimmon Parkway, at the corner of N.C. Highway 55, the campus opens for patients Jan. 21, 2020, and will see patients five days a week. Our OB-GYN and … Read more