Organization: UNC / UNC Health

Xinming An is an interdisciplinary researcher and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at UNC-Chapel Hill. With a strong background in mathematics, statistics, and psychometrics, he possesses extensive expertise in various statistical modeling techniques and their applications in medical research. His research primarily focuses on the analysis of complex,...

  1) Chronic pain development following burn injury. Chronic pain is common following burn injury and previous studies in the lab have shown an association between low peritraumatic Vitamin D levels and chronic pain severity following burn injury. Therefore, we hypothesize that supplementation of Vitamin D in the peritraumatic period...

  I am an anesthesiologist and critical care physician interested in understanding pain, mood, and cognitive impairments that patients may experience as they recover from postoperative intensive care. In particular, I am interested in the development of post-intensive care syndrome and nociplastic pain.

The Linnstaedt lab is interested in understanding mechanisms driving the development of chronic musculoskeletal pain following traumatic stress exposures with the goal of identifying novel therapeutic strategies that reduce the burden of chronic pain suffering across the globe. To accomplish this goal, we use translational research methods including the analysis...

  I am a neurologist specialized in neuro-infectious disease, neuroimmunology, and global health. I am also a clinical researcher with a public health background, so my work primarily includes epidemiology and implementation science/quality improvement studies with some clinical intervention work. Currently, the majority of my research is in Africa (Zambia...

  Terry Magnuson is the Kay M. and Van L. Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Founding Chair of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine’s Department of Genetics, the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, and the Cancer Genetics program. He previously served as Vice...

  Arlene Davis’s work focuses on practical ethics in both clinical and research settings. Davis teaches on topics related to ethics and to health law and is the Director of UNC Hospital’s Clinical Ethics Service where she conducts or supervises ethics consultation for patients throughout the quaternary hospital system, offers...

  Will Smith’s research focuses on ethical, policy, implementation, and behavioral economics in psychiatry,​ especially in Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) for first-episode psychosis​. Current work includes trials collaborating with various NIMH Early Psychosis Network (EPINET) sites to develop incentive and behavioral economics-based interventions to help patients maintain engagement with care...

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 Medicine, Chair of the national ethics committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, on the national ethics committee of the...

  My program of research investigates biological and psychological mechanisms linking early childhood adversity exposure with risk for suicide across the child and adolescent developmental period. My work integrates multiple methodologies ranging from digital technologies to physiological and neurobiological tools.

  My work largely encompasses interstitial lung disease and acute lung injury. The emphasis is on treatments, including the use of novel agents and different ventilator strategies to ameliorate lung injury. I have an interest in the interaction between patient-specific risk factors and exposures, including occupational exposures and electronic cigarettes.

My clinical and academic focus is on neuromodulation, particularly deep brain stimulation. I seek to improve the delivery of neuromodulation therapies through understanding the impact of brain connectivity on clinical outcomes. My work focuses on the development of predictive models of clinical outcomes of deep brain stimulation using various neuroimaging...