Organization: UNC / UNC Health

  I am currently a Professor of Surgery at the University of North Carolina (UNC). During the past two decades, I have led several studies in the US, Europe, and Australia to improve quality and safety of patient care within clinical microsystems. My faculty positions at UNC and previously at...

  The overall goal of my research is to investigate novel targeted therapies and improve the care for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and B-cell lymphoma. In order to achieve this goal, I have developed a diverse clinical trial portfolio for patients with CLL and lymphoma. The scope of...

Suicide prevention and treatment, rural mental health, depression, anxiety

  Dr. Arian Azarang is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at UNC Chapel Hill, where his research focuses on real-time signal and image processing, development and deployment of deep learning models in biomedical fields, and speech recognition and enhancement. Dr. Azarang has authored or co-authored 24...

  Molecular epidemiology of smoking related bladder cancer and e-cigarette use. Dr. Bjurlin’s clinical practice is focused on urologic oncology—in particular, the treatment of bladder, prostate, testis, and kidney cancer. He is a member of the integrated Multidisciplinary Genitourinary Oncology Group at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. His team takes...

  I am an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine and an adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). As a cardiovascular epidemiologist with expertise in cardiometabolic risk factors and non-invasive measures...

  Dr. Raffa is a clinician researcher who is board-certified in General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and has completed a Master of Public Health from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill. Her research focus is on the effect of policies on healthcare utilization and health...

  My research is focused on developing MRI methods with applications to investigate physiology in neurovascular diseases of the retina and brain. These developments include imaging methods to measure layer-specific blood flow of the retina, high-resolution functional MRI to detect physiologically induced changes in the retina, and multiple methods to...

  I am a surgical pathologist with a special interest in anatomic pathology quality improvement and utilization of ancillary diagnostic tools such as molecular sequencing, in-situ hybridization, and immunohistochemistry. I also serve as the fellowship director for the head and neck surgical pathology fellowship training program at UNC. My clinical...

  Global health, ophthalmology, trachoma, diabetic eye disease, cataract, surgery outcomes

  I am a movement disorders neurologist who treats patients with Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonism syndromes. My research focuses on novel therapies for non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, especially mood and autonomic symptoms, and interdisciplinary care in atypical parkinsonism syndromes.