The Department of Pediatrics is excited to announce that, effective July 16, 2021, Edwin Kim MD is our new Division Chief of Pediatric Allergy-Immunology.

Dr. Ahuja joined the Department of Pediatrics as faculty in Hospital Pediatrics on July 12, 2021. Dr. Ahuja completed her Pediatric residency at Loyola University in June 2014 and a fellowship in Global Clinical Education at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2015. Most recently, Dr. Ahuja has served as a Pediatric Hospitalist at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ.

Dr. Allison joined the Department of Pediatrics as faculty in General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine on July 12, 2021. She joined UNC as a Pediatric Resident until 2019 and subsequently completed her National Research Service Award fellowship at UNC in 2021.

Dr. Frazer joined the Department of Pediatrics as faculty in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine on July 5, 2021. She completed her Pediatric residency at UNC Chapel Hill in 2018 and, in June 2021, she completed a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard University.

We are excited to announce that Katie Jordan, MD will join the education team as an Associate Program Director. Dr. Jordan is the newly appointed Medical Director of the UNC Children’s Primary Care Clinic.

The Department of Pediatrics is excited to announce that Nancie J. MacIver, MD, PhD, has accepted our offer to serve as the new Division Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology. Dr. MacIver will be starting in June 2021.

Ajay Gulati, MD, Division of Gastroenterology, was promoted to Professor of Pediatrics as of June 1, 2021. Dr. Gulati is a long-standing researcher in the UNC Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease (CGIBD).

We are excited to announce that William Mills, Jr., MD MPH has been named and accepted the role of Director of Medical Student Education in Pediatrics and the Course Co-director for the Care of Specific Populations (CSP) Course in the School of Medicine.

Renee Ducatte joined the Department of Pediatrics on May 17th as an APP in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Ms. Ducatte completed her BSN at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2016 and went on to completed her MSN at the Duke University School of Nursing in 2020. Beginning in 2016, she worked for 2 years as a nurse in the PICU at Duke University and then in the Cardio Vascular Intensive Care Unit at Levine Children’s Hospital, in Charlotte

Dr. Sinha joined the Department of Pediatrics as faculty in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine on May 1st. Dr. Sinha completed his PhD in Pharmacometrics in 2019 from the Univeristy of Otago School of Pharmacy in Dunedin, New Zealand. Beginning in 2019 he has been a Post Doctoral researcher in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at UNC.