Author Archives: Laurie Birdsong

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics Greg Summerville, MD, entered his intern year in Internal Medicine with an open-minded readiness to explore the entire spectrum of medicine. At the outset of residency, Dr. Summerville could not have predicted that he would end up practicing in an evolving branch of Sports Medicine that...

In January 2022, Norfleet-Raney Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Joseph (“Joe”) M. Hart, PhD, ATC, was named Vice Chair for Research for UNC Department of Orthopaedics. Over a 20+-year career at University of Virginia (UVA), Dr. Hart held appointments in both UVA’s Departments of Kinesiology (School of Education & Human...