Category: Peds News

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...

Ashely Sutton, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, with a team of from across the UNC Children's Hospital has recently published Systematic Improvement in the Patient Transfer Process to a Tertiary Care Children’s Hospital in Hospital Pediatrics. This study shares the efforts to improve...

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.”