Organization: UNC / UNC Health

Surgery for benign and malignant diseases of the colon, rectum and anus, including colon cancer, rectal cancer and anal cancer; inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis; constipation, rectal prolapse and fecal incontinence. Focus on minimally invasive techniques including laparoscopy and robotic surgery.

Trauma, Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery

Dr. Patrick Smith is a lifelong North Carolinian, having grown up in the Chapel Hill – Durham area. His training background has focused within three primary domains: behavioral medicine, neuropsychology, and biostatistics. He is particularly interested in the use of non-pharmacological approaches (e.g. exercise and dietary modification) to mitigate late-life...

Treating musculoskeletal conditions with traditional and novel therapies. Helping people achieve and maintain their personal activity and fitness goals. Working with athletes of all ages, interests and ability levels. Using musculoskeletal ultrasound and minimally invasive procedures to improve care. Providing medical coverage at sporting events. Managing athletes with blood clotting...

I am a board-certified radiologist and work as an Associate Professor in the Division of Abdominal Imaging in the Department of Radiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). My clinical work focuses on imaging findings of disease processes involving the abdomen and pelvis. My research focus...

Dr. Rebekah Nash is an Assistant Professor in the Psychiatry Department at UNC Chapel Hill. She investigates risk factors, protective factors, and underlying genetic mechanisms of psychiatric disorders and cognitive function in patients with severe medical illness, including following solid organ transplant. Her clinical work is on the inpatient consultation liaison...

As a health informatics expert, Dr. Khairat investigates the development, implementation, and evaluation of Health IT solutions to improve health equity and access, particularly, virtual care and electronic health records usability. He has authored over 80 influential scientific articles in more than 35 different peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and has...

The Emanuele lab studies the role of ubiquitin signaling and protein degradation in cell cycle , normal and cancer proliferation, and genome stability. We are focused on signaling that flows from E3 ubiquitin ligases and deubiquitinases. Our goal is to determine enzymes and substrates involved in cell physiology and disease,...

Dr. Mills uses a social-ecological framework to examine the roles that the neighborhood in which one lives and public policy play in racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in tobacco use. She conducted one of the first national studies documenting disproportionate advertising for menthol cigarettes in Black communities in the United...

Our lab commits to undertaking cutting-edge research that will contribute to theoretical advances in our understanding of various diseases through the integration of medical imaging with genomics, metagenomics, and analytical chemistry. Dr. Zhu has a broad background in statistics, biostatistics, medical imaging, genetics/genomics, artificial intelligence, and computational neuroscience, with specific...

Our work focuses on T cell-mediated autoimmunity with a particular interest in type 1 diabetes. Efforts involve defining the events driving the breakdown of self-tolerance within the T cell compartment as well as developing immunotherapies that selectively target the autoimmune response and reestablish long-term self-tolerance.

Cancer Screening in Primary Care Practice Informed and Shared Medical Decision Making