Category: Peds News

Peyton Thompson, MD, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Infection Diseases, is the recipient of a 2022 Early-Career Physician Scientists Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Jennifer Fuchs, Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Pediatrics and Nadia Hoekstra, MD, Pediatric Pulmonology Fellow are awarded DEI Mini Grant in the award program’s 2022 pilot year.

Latonya Logan joined Pediatric Emergency Medicine on August 8, 2022. In 2018, Ms. Logan received her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of South Carolina Upstate in Greenville, SC and her Master of Science in Nursing from Drexel University in Philadelphia in 2021. Welcome Latonya!

Alexandria Whitted joined Pediatric Emergency Medicine on August 8, 2022. In 2013, Ms. Whitted received her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing and then her Master of Science in Nursing in 2021, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Welcome Alexandria!

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”.

UNC School of Medicine researchers Meghan E. Rebuli, PhD, and Ilona Jaspers, PhD, are co-authors on a paper published Tuesday, Aug. 2, in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, titled “Smoking and e-cigarette use: key variables in testing IgA-oriented intranasal vaccines.”

Tierra Bobo joined the joined the Department of Pediatrics as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Genetics and Metabolism on August 1, 2022. Dr. Bobo received her PhD from The Ohio State University in Human Molecular Genetics in 2016. She also, received her Bachelors of Science Degree in biological...

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...

We are pleased to announce that, Dr. Matt Laughon began his tenure as Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs on July 1, 2022, serving as the Chair’s designate for one of the most important parts of the academic pediatric enterprise.   For 11 years, Terry Noah has been the Vice Chair for...

On August 1, 2022, Dr. Tom Ferkol joined the department as the new Division Chief of Pediatric Pulmonology. Dr. Ferkol comes to us from Washington University in St. Louis. He earned an undergraduate degree in Biological and Psychology from Case Western Reserve University before pursuing his MD degree at Ohio...