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Rebecca Arango joined the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine in April 2025 as the newest member of the Complex Care team. Rebecca received her BSN from University of Virginia in 2012 and earned her MSN as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner from Old Dominion University in May 2024. Rebecca...

Laura Cartwright joined the Division of Hematology/Oncology in April 2025. Laura was most recently a nurse practitioner at Boston Children's Hospital but prior to that was a 5 Children’s nurse at UNC. She is joining our team as a Bone Marrow Transplant/Cellular Therapies APP. Welcome back, Laura!

Matthew Vogt, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology, leads one of three interdisciplinary teams of UNC researchers to have been selected for the 2024–25 Translational Team Science Awards. Each team will receive $50,000 in phase one funding to launch innovative pilot projects that bring together basic...

Kenya McNeal-Trice, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, has been selected as a 2025 recipient of the Academic Pediatric Association (APA) George Armstrong  Lecture Award. This recognition highlights her exceptional contributions to pediatric care and education.

Mzikamanda RR, Mulanje L, McAtee CL, Matatiyo A, Mwale Z, Chirwa G, Wanda W, Mpasa AM, Wachepa S, Huibers MHW, Martin S, Tomoka T, Mulenga M, Fedoriw Y, Mapurisa G, Gastier Foster JM, El-Mallawany N, Westmoreland KD, Wasswa P, Allen CE, Ozuah N. JCO Glob Oncol. 2025 Mar;11:e2400591. doi: 10.1200/GO-24-00591....

UNC Children's is proud to announce that two physician-researchers were honored by the Triangle Business Journal as recipients of 2025 Health Care Leadership Awards. Congratulations!

At the Reelin’ for Research Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Clinic at North Carolina Basnight Cancer Hospital, the clinical home of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the outpatient care team has expanded to include care partners to help families navigate a child’s care journey.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Misty Good has been accepted as a Fellow in the 2024 -2025 Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) program at Drexel University College of Medicine.

An international cost-effectiveness study, led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the Kinshasa School of Public Health, has found that an effective antibiotic used to combat maternal sepsis vastly reduces health-care costs for pregnant patients.

Jacquelyn Baskin-Miller, MD was promoted to Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Hematology-Oncology, effective April 1, 2025. Dr. Baskin-Miller has been a faculty member in Pediatrics since 2019. Congratulations!