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Congratulations to Dr. Colin Orr!  Dr.Orr has been selected to receive the 2022-23 James Woods Junior Faculty Award. The selection committee members were very impressed with his proposal to develop a novel peer support intervention to address food insecurity and consequently type 2 diabetes in children in the Hispanic population.

We are pleased to announce that, Dr. Carl Seashore has been named Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer for the UNC Medical Center.  Dr. Seashore is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine  with interests in quality improvement, newborn care, ambulatory pediatrics, and informatics.

Rohan Patel joined the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine as an Assistant Professor on September 1, 2022. In 2016, Dr. Patel earned a medical degree from the Saint George School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. Dr. Patel completed a Pediatric Residency at the Morehouse School of Medicine...

Meg Kihlstrom, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care Medicine, and Kenya McNeal-Trice, MD, Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Hospital Pediatrics, have been awarded the Denny, Simon, Tingelstad Academic Service Award from the North Carolina Pediatric Society in recognition of their work with the...

Kenya McNeal-Trice, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, has been elected President of the North Carolina Pediatric Society (NCPeds), the state chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Jessica Young joined the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine as an Assistant Professor on August 29, 2022. Dr. Young earned a medical degree from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in 2017. Dr. Young completed a Pediatric Residency at Levine Children's Hospital at Carolina Medical...

Lucien Gonzalez joined the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine as an Associate Professor on August 22, 2022. Dr. Gonzalez earned a medical degree from the University of Massachusetts in 2001. Dr. Gonzalez completed a Pediatric Residency at New York Medical Center/Westchester Medical Center in 2008 and completed an...

UNC Children’s researchers, Vander Schaaf, Weinberg, Perry, Seashore, and Gold published in August 2022 edition of the journal Pediatrics, titled “A Quality Improvement Approach to Enhance LGBTQ+ Inclusivity in Pediatric Primary Care”.

Katherine MacDonald joined the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine as an Assistant Professor on August 1, 2022. Dr. MacDonald earned her MD from Indiana University’s School of Medicine in 2011. She completed her Pediatric Residency at the University of Utah in 2014 and served as an Adolescent Medicine...

Kori B. Flower, MD, MPH, has been appointed as the Chief for the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine within the Department of Pediatrics.