UNC Pediatric Spina Bifida Patients and Families – Please join UNC Departments of Neurosurgery, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Urology, Orthopedics, and Rehabilitation Therapies on October 5th at the St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Chapel Hill for a Family Conference and Reunion! This is a free event focused on education, networking, and fun! Advance registration … Continued
Yesterday the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences (“TraCS”) Institute announced awardees for 2 programs. Congratulations to our PM&R faculty members within the Program of Integrative Medicine for their awards from NC TraCS! Kim Faurot, PhD, MPH, PA is the principal investigator for a $2K Pilot Grant Program and Isabel Roth, DrPH, MS is the principal … Continued
Our department’s 16th annual Research Day was held on Friday, June 29th in UNC’s Old Clinic Auditorium. The department’s graduating PM&R Resident and graduating PIM T-32 Fellows presented their formal research to the department. Presentation titles are listed below: Diana Marchese, MD: “Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation: Improving the Day of Admission Process” Kristin Jerger, MD, LMBT: … Continued
Congratulations to Lee Shuping, MD, MPT who was recently mentioned in the latest Carolina Care Highlight! UNC Healthcare and the UNC School of Medicine’s Newsroom posted that Dr. Shuping had received excellent remarks from a recent patient in a Press Ganey survey. Dr. Shuping’s intelligence, patient care skills, and problem solving abilities were all mentioned … Continued
Career Day Speakers UNC PM&R Career Day was held on Friday, September 29th. Read below to learn more about our highly informative sessions! On Friday, September 29th, UNC PM&R hosted a “Career Day” which was focused on providing our residents with helpful professional development and career preparation information. The sessions were as follows: … Continued
Congratulations to the Center for Rehabilitation Care’s staff, faculty, and residents on receiving the 2017 Exceptional Patient Service Award CRC staff pose outside of the CRC with the award! The Center for Rehabilitation Care (“CRC”) was recently awarded UNC’s 2017 Exceptional Patient Service Award. This award is given to clinics who reached or exceeded the … Continued
Congratulations to the 4 faculty within our department for earning this prestigious honor! Yesterday, Best Doctors in America ® released their names of physicians that had been selected as their 2017-2018 Best Doctors in America award recipients. 372 physicians affiliated with UNC Health Care have been selected to the Best Doctors in America List for … Continued
Summary of the “Current Challenges in Rehabilitation Medicine” conference The 2017 Current Challenges in Rehabilitation Medicine conference was hosted on Friday and Saturday, June 16 – 17, 2017 at the William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC. The conference focused on best practices for controlled substance prescribing on Day One and innovative treatment … Continued
Summary of our department’s 15th annual Research Day Keynote Speaker Dr. Francis Walker Our department’s 15th annual Research Day was held on Friday, June 16th in UNC’s Old Clinic Auditorium. Dr. Francis Walker of Wake Forest gave the Patricia C. Gregory Memorial Lecture. His keynote address was followed by presentations by our three graduating PM&R … Continued
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Boyd for being awarded the “Outstanding Off-Service Intern Award.” Michael Boyd, DO was awarded the 2016-2017 “Outstanding Off-Service Intern Award” by UNC’s Internal Medicine department. This award is given to an off-service intern who performs exemplary patient care while rotating on Internal Medicine services. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Boyd!
