This year, UNC Department of Orthopaedics is pleased to host two medical student scholars selected by UNC programs that address and close gaps in racial and gender disparities in medical practice.  In fall 2022, the Department will host its first University of North Carolina Department of Orthopaedics Scholarship for Under-Represented Minority Medical Students scholar — … Read more

At its annual graduation banquet on Friday, June 3rd 2022, the Department honored the achievements and completion of Orthopaedic Surgery training of its five departing residents. Residents, fellows and faculty gathered at the University’s Carolina Inn to celebrate the end of the academic year and to award resident and teaching faculty honors in research, education … Read more

In the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings of the 50 top-performing children’s hospitals across the U.S. across 10 pediatric specialties, UNC’s Pediatric Orthopaedics service was named #23 among all pediatric orthopaedic programs. In the 2022-2023 report released mid-June, data analysis and surveys of thousands of pediatric specialists working at 119 children’s hospitals nationwide … Read more

On Friday, June 3rd, 2022, UNC Orthopaedics hosted its 51st Annual R. Beverly Raney Visiting Professorship and Orthopaedic Conference, marking a welcome return to in-person for a longstanding educational event that benefits current and alumnus UNC Orthopaedics Surgery faculty and residents. Each year, this event provides orthopaedic surgeons updates on the latest research innovations, advances … Read more

The mission of UNC Orthopaedics and the Sports Medicine Institute includes injury treatment, rehabilitation, and injury prevention and outreach.  This includes our UNC athletes, as well as the local school systems, weekend warriors and athletes of all ages. We work to support the community as a whole at a range of competitive athletic events. On … Read more

As the Laurence E. Dahners Research Grant enters its second bi-annual funding cycle, the two UNC Orthopaedics faculty-resident teams concluding 12-month awarded projects in 2022 continue to grow a program aimed at investigative studies that uphold the spirit of innovation in restorative, rehabilitative and preventive orthopaedic practice embodied by former UNC Professor of Orthopaedics Dr. … Read more

Growing up, UNC Associate Professor of Orthopaedics J. Megan M. Patterson, MD, was privileged in a way many of her female peers in surgery were not. In a dual surgeon household, her parents set the example for four children that surgery careers with long hospital shifts could be successfully balanced with shared child-raising responsibilities at … Read more

UNC Department of Orthopaedics congratulates its 10 faculty members who were honored among 154 UNC School of Medicine (SOM) providers with the 2022 UNC Hospitals and UNC Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence. Alexander Creighton Andrew Chen Christopher Olcott Daniel Bracey David Berkoff Donald Bynum Ganesh Kamath Jacqueline Myers Joseph Stone Moe Lim* Each … Read more

Each year, the North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA) Nurse Practitioner Spring Symposium draws NPs together from across the state for professional development, networking, and policy discussion. At the 2022 Nurse Practitioner Spring Symposium in March in Asheville, NC, Jennifer (Jennie) Woody, FNP, and Heather Carroll, FNP, took to the podium to share approaches to best … Read more

On Friday, March 18th, 2022, 4th-year medical students at UNC School of Medicine and other institutions nationwide celebrated Match Day 2022 virtually, marking a lifetime milestone in a new era where online forums serve as effective means of mass celebration. Though 2022 became a third consecutive virtual Match Day, it was also a record year … Read more