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Dr. Robyn Jordan, Medical Director of the Addiction Medicine Program spoke with WCHL and Chapelboro.com about the country’s opioid and drug epidemic saying, “The severity of the medical illness combined with their substance use disorder is much higher than we’ve ever treated before.”

October 28, 2020

Dr. Cynthia Bulik speaks with Smithsonian Magazine about How Patients with Eating Disorders Have Been Affected by the Pandemic and Conditions have become Exacerbated.

October 22, 2020

Congrats to Dr. Zoe McElligott for receiving 2020-2021 Jefferson-Pilot Fellowships in Academic Medicine!

October 15, 2020

US researchers seeking 6,000+ participants for world’s largest eating disorders genetics study, featuring UNC Psychiatry’s Dr. Cynthia Bulik

October 14, 2020

Chair, Dr. Meltzer-Brody speaks with Forbes about mental health during the pandemic especially on World mental Health Day

October 13, 2020

Mahadevan Named 2020 RWJF Clinical Scholars: For the first time, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named two Clinical Scholars from the same institution to two different health provider teams in the same year: Crystal Wiley Cené, MD, MPH, and Thava Mahadevan, MS

October 9, 2020

Congratulations to UNC Psychiatry’s Thava Mahadevan and his Wake County Familiar Faces Health Collaborative team on being selected as 2020 Clinical Scholars!

October 1, 2020
This group was chosen from applicants across the United States to benefit from this Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored program. This Wake County, NC team will work with communities and other stakeholders to develop, implement, and evaluate a service model to improve hand-offs between among agencies and systems of care,...

Congratulations Karen Bluth, PhD on the launch of your new book!

October 1, 2020
Teens facing intense physical, mental, and social changes can get caught up in self-judgment and self-criticism. And, over time, these negative thoughts can build up, leading to stress, anxiety, and even depression. To help mitigate this serious issue, Karen Bluth, PhD, a fellow within the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child...

Top Of Mind interviewed Christine M. Peat, Director of NCEED about what’s happening to people struggling with eating disorders during a pandemic.

September 23, 2020

Zoe McElligott, PhD, will investigate how neurotransmitters promote alcohol consumption and whether chronic alcohol consumption alters the strength of a specific brain circuit. Congratulations on this NIH Grant Award!

September 22, 2020