Adesola Akinkuotu, MD, MPH |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Health literacy, surgical outcomes in pediatric patients, congenital anomalies, fetal interventions |
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AFFILIATIONS: Surgery |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health Equity, Health Services, Pediatrics, Population-based, Surgery |
Bianca Allison, MD, MPH |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I care for pediatric patients of all ages, from infants through young adults, but have expertise in caring for adolescents and young adults. My passion is helping adolescents and young adults with com … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Children's Research Institute, Pediatrics, Sheps Center for Health Services Research |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Health Equity, Health Services, Implementation Science, Medical Education, Pediatrics, Population-based, Sexual and Gender Minorities, Social Determinants of Health, Social Medicine, Women's Health |
Kavita Arora, MD, MBE, MS |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Arora is an expert in disparities surrounding sterilization (permanent contraception) and reproductive bioethics. She has served as the Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics for the National Academy of Me … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Carolina Population Center, Center for Bioethics, Center for Women's Health Research, Obstetrics & Gynecology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioethics, Health Equity, Women's Health |
Evan Ashkin, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My work centers on health for people and communities impacted by incarcerations and racial health disparities perpetuated by the criminal legal system . Specifically I focus on connections to essentia … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Family Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Criminal Justice, Health Equity, Health Services, Social Medicine |
Tamara Baker, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research agenda has been to establish an original, meaningful and coherent program of research in pain management, health outcomes and behaviors, and domains of health disparities and social determ … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aging/Geriatrics, Arthritis, Behavior, Health Equity, Mental illness, Social Medicine |
Jessica Barnhill, MD, MPH |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My clinical and research focus is on mind-body approaches to health. I incorporate the VAs Whole Health materials into my individual integrative medical consults and build upon these concepts in group … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Apps-Devices, Behavior, Clinical Trials, Electronic Medicine, Health Equity, Health Services, Implementation Science, Medical Education, Mental illness, Population-based, Quality of Life, Rehabilitation, Sleep |
Ehsan Benrashid, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Aortic, cerebrovascular, peripheral arterial disease clinical outcomes. Healthcare disparities in vascular surgery. |
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AFFILIATIONS: Surgery |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Apps-Devices, Cardiovascular Biology, Cardiovascular disease, Clinical Trials, Education Research, Health Equity |
Janalynn Beste, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Other UNC Center and/or Department Affiliation: Other Research and/or Clinical Interests: Currently the Perinatal Region 5 Family Medicine champion for the NC Maternal Innovations HRSA. Research inter … Read more |
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MARKET(S): CoastalINSTITUTE(S): Community Health & Wellness |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health Equity, Pediatrics, Social Determinants of Health, Women's Health |
NOVANT HEALTH
Rebecca Bottom, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Medical Director at UNC Wake STEP Community Clinic, which serves adults living with severe persistent mental illnesses (e.g., schizophrenia spectrum and bipolar spectrum disorders) |
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AFFILIATIONS: Other |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health Equity, Mental illness, Social Medicine |
Amy G. Bryant, MD, MSCR |
| Clinical / Research Focus: IS THIS A NEW PROFILE OR UPDATE TO EXISTING ONE: No – please create one for me Remove the following info and place in the fields above (then delete this prompt): First Name: Amy Last Name: Bryant Emai … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Gillings School of Public Health, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Women's Health |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioethics, Health Equity, Medical Education, Women's Health |
Jean Cadigan, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Other UNC Center and/or Department Affiliation: Center for Bioethics |
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AFFILIATIONS: Other, Social Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Bioethics, Gene Therapy, Genetics, Genomics, Health Equity, Medical Education, Social Medicine, Translational Medicine |
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AFFILIATIONS: Department of Medicine (DOM), Lineberger Cancer Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Clinical Trials, Drug Delivery, Genomics, Health Equity, Immunology, Molecular Medicine |









