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Congratulations La-Shell Johnson! She is the recipient of the one-year ACRP membership benefit granted by SOM CRSO and NC TraCS. The awardees each demonstrated a commitment to the field clinical research at UNC, a desire to further develop clinical research skills and knowledge, and a vision for continuous quality improvement in their areas of clinical research operations.
Welcome Angela Campbell!
Angela is joining us as our Business Services Coordinator. This position will provide administrative and business services support to the Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health.
November: Mindfulness, The Important Difference Between Strength and Power
By Jonny Gerkin, MD gerkin@med.unc.edu Power is that fantasy of control, so that you don’t have to experience what you fear. Strength is the capacity to experience all that there is and remain responsive. Power has its place at the right time. I don’t mean to cast power aside into the dust bin of … Read more
A proactive consultation-liaison psychiatry implementation framework for the management of medical and surgical inpatients with psychiatric comorbidities
Drs. Asuquo (UNC Gillings School of Public Health), Goodman, Gaynes, and Nakamura propose an adaptation of a collaborative care model for implementation and evaluation of proactive consultation-liaison psychiatry services to improve management of patients with psychiatric conditions who are hospitalized on inpatient medical and surgical services
Impact of patient and clinical characteristics on cognitive changes after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
In this longitudinal study of patients hematologic cancers, Drs. Nakamura, Rosenstein, and colleagues identified that cognitive impairment was common over the 6 months following stem cell transplantation. However, cognition incrementally improved among study participants over time and, of importance, more severe disease and aggressive prior treatment did not impede this positive trajectory.