Author Archives: Charlotte Weaver

Pinotti CS, Pooni R, Gaizo VD, Kohlheim M, Schildt E, Taxter AJ, Ronis T; CARRA Clinical Informatics Workgroup. Appl Clin Inform. 2025 Mar;16(2):327-336. doi: 10.1055/a-2487-7414. Epub 2025 Apr 9. PMID: 40204118.

A national multi-site clinical trial, co-led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine, has found that therapeutic hypothermia may be harming preterm infants recovering from a specific type of brain injury.

Wesley Burks, MD, CEO of UNC Health and dean of the UNC School of Medicine, professor of pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, Department of Pediatrics and Corinne A. Keet, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, write editorial in New England Journal of Medicine Evidence...

Ahmad Sami, MD, Pediatric GI Fellow and Carolina Child Health Scholar, was awarded a Southern Society of Pediatric Research (SSPR) Young Investigator Award for basic research for his oral presentation titled, “Urolithin A attenuates inflammation and enhances intestinal barrier function in necrotizing enterocolitis.”

Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Caid (Allergy/Immunology Fellow), Dr. Marielys Collazo-Roman (ID Fellow), and Dr. Paige Noreen (Pulmonology Fellow), who have been selected as our next group of Carolina Child Health Scholars!

Several pediatrics faculty were recently selected to receive UNC-Chapel Hill Junior Faculty Development Awards for 2025. The Junior Faculty Development Awards are funded by IBM and R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. This award grants $10,000 to support scholarly pursuits over one calendar year.

Terry Noah, MD, Jacob A. Lohr Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, has been selected by the Assembly on Pediatric (PEDS) Award Selection Committee to receive the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Assembly on Pediatrics Lifetime Contributions to Pediatric Respiratory Medicine Award. Dr. Noah has been a faculty member in the Department of...

Elaina Williams joined the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine on February 17, 2025. Elaina received her BSN from University of Pittsburgh in 2010 and earned her MSN as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner from Duke University in May 2014. Since 2017, Elaina worked as an in-house pediatric medical provider...

Coltrane Beck-Chance joined Genetics and Metabolism on February 10, 2025. Mr. Beck-Chance received his Bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in December of 2019. He received his MS in Genetic Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2024. Welcome!

A retired Pediatrics faculty member, Dr. Frank French passed away on February 7th, 2025. Dr. French was a UNC resident then a faculty member and scientist from the 1960s through the 2000s. Frank French enjoyed a long and productive career with UNC Pediatric Endocrinology, becoming a full professor in 1976...