Category: News

We are excited to share that UNC Children's Urgent Care at Raleigh was voted the #2 Urgent Care/Walk-In Clinic in the greater Raleigh area, the only pediatric urgent care ranked on the list. Raleigh's Best, a publication of the News & Observer, recently published the 2024 edition of the Best...

We are thrilled to announce that the Children’s CLABSI Reduction team won an award at the Quality Expo, October 24, 2024. The poster received the Carolina Quality award for “The project submission that best exemplifies the Carolina Quality Values.” The Initiative to reduce CLABSI across UNC Children’s resulted in a...

Spencer Franklin Brady, MHA, has been named the associate chair for administration in the department of pediatrics. Brady has served as the interim ACA for the department since July 2024. Brady first joined the UNC School of Medicine in 2014 when he served as a division administrator and later as...

UNC Program Connects Adolescents and Young Adults to Quality Cancer Care. From puberty to leaving home, starting a career, and navigating adult relationships, adolescents and young adults can feel like they’re facing a seemingly unending stream of challenges. Now imagine adding cancer to that mix. Every year, almost 90,000 of...

Nina Jain, MD, MBA, professor of pediatric endocrinology, and Ali Calikoglu, MD, retired professor of pediatrics, both at the UNC School of Medicine, played a pivotal role in getting this therapy to the bedside, from assisting with clinical trials to the infusion of the first pediatric patient in North Carolina...

After Hurricane Helene devastated areas of Western North Carolina, Alyssa Tilly, MD, assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics in the UNC Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, helped coordinate a field hospital to provide medical care to some of the most impacted and vulnerable residents.

The NEC Society, Cincinnati Children's, and UNC Children’s are proud to announce the NEC Symposium in Chicago, September 7 - 10, 2025. As the world’s largest conference focused on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), the NEC Symposium will bring together key stakeholders to unite the global community for a world without NEC.

Toni Darville, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at UNC, was recently awarded the 2024 Distinguished Research Award by the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society (PIDS). Dr. Darville is a renowned clinician and investigator whose research focuses on the prevention of Chlamydia trachomatis. The award recognizes a Society member whose outstanding...

The Greater Wilmington Business Journal has put on the Health Care Heroes awards program since 2013 to honor the people and organizations making an impact on the quality of health care in the region. We are excited to report that Dr. Kateryna Kotlyarevska, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Director, Pediatric...

UNC Children’s in Chapel Hill has been ranked among the nation’s top children’s hospitals, according to U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” report released today. UNC Children’s was ranked as the #2 children’s hospital in North Carolina and nationally ranked in nine pediatric specialties.