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Thava Mahadevan receives a Leadership Triangle Award Thava Mahadevan, MS, director of operations at the Center and at the UNC Farm at Penny Lane, received a Leadership Triangle Award for strategic partnerships on December 9 at the Triangle Leadership Gala, held in Bay 7 at Durham’s American Tobacco Campus. Mahadevan’s...

Editor Alice Lockhart, BA Director of Communications alice_lockhart@med.unc.edu Contributing Writers Anne Johnson Photography Will Owen Photography Edward Binanay, BS Copyright UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health CB 7160 Chapel Hill, NC 27599

  The Dog Parade at Chapel Hill Public Library The Dog Parade Art Exhibit officially opened for a one-week show at the Chapel Hill Public library on November 13 after making a quick stop to greet 200-plus guests at the Center’s second annual No Limits gala at the George Watts...

  Diana Perkins, MD, MPH Despite decades of study, schizophrenia has remained stubbornly difficult to diagnose in its earliest stage – between the appearance of symptoms and the development of the disorder. Now, a new analysis led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the Renaissance Computing Institute...

L-R David Rubinow, MD, Van Eure, Steve Thanhauser, Shelley E. Belk, John Gilmore, MD, Thava Mahadevan and William Roper, MD More than 200 friends and supporters of the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health attended a celebration of recovery at the Center’s second annual No Limits gala at...

It has been an exciting fall here at the Center. We’ve just celebrated our second No Limits gala, and it was a great success. More than 200 people attended our November celebration. I want to give a special thanks to Aaron Nelson, head of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce...

L-R Congressman Price, Thava Mahadevan and John Gilmore, MD U.S. Rep. David Price visited the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health on October 20 to learn more about the Center’s programs for individuals with serious mental illness. Congressman Price, who represents North Carolina’s Fourth District, met with John...

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David Penn, PhD, a Linda Wagner-Martin Distinguished Professor and director of psychological services at the Center’s OASIS, is co-author of a study on talk therapy's use in easing Schizophrenia.Take a look at this article published in the New York Times.

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