It was only a matter of time. In April 2021, UNC Radiology’s Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) program took its successful virtual journal club (VJC) to the Big Apple! Throughout the 2020-2021 pandemic, Course Directors of UNC Radiology’s medical student electives saw how the COVID-19 pandemic’s social distancing constraints have impacted the constructs of radiology medical … Read more

Hastings Banda: An Interview with our Colleague in Malawi Melissa Culp, Director of UNC Global Radiology, recently sat down with Mr. Hastings Banda, a radiographer and sonographer at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe, Malawi. Mr. Banda shared with Mrs. Culp his story of becoming a radiographer and ways he’s sought to advance radiography at … Read more

Hastings Banda: An Interview with our Colleague in Malawi Melissa Culp, Director of UNC Global Radiology, recently sat down with Mr. Hastings Banda, a radiographer and sonographer at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe, Malawi. Mr. Banda shared with Mrs. Culp his story of becoming a radiographer and ways he’s sought to advance radiography at … Read more

  The Department would like to recognize the following new faculty and staff members who joined UNC Radiology during the first six months of 2021: Rachel Hitt, MD, MPH: Associate Professor of Radiology – Breast Imaging Dr. Hitt joined UNC Department of Radiology Breast Imaging division in July 2021 as an Associate Professor of Radiology. She is … Read more

  The Department would like to recognize the following new faculty and staff members who joined UNC Radiology during the first six months of 2021: Rachel Hitt, MD, MPH: Associate Professor of Radiology – Breast Imaging Dr. Hitt joined UNC Department of Radiology Breast Imaging division in July 2021 as an Associate Professor of Radiology. She is … Read more

  The Department would like to recognize the following new faculty and staff members who joined UNC Radiology during the first six months of 2021: Rachel Hitt, MD, MPH: Associate Professor of Radiology – Breast Imaging Dr. Hitt joined UNC Department of Radiology Breast Imaging division in July 2021 as an Associate Professor of Radiology. She is … Read more

Spring 2021 – Musculoskeletal Imaging Division Chief Daniel Nissman, MD MPH MSEE, was named Associate Editor for the Journal of Digital Imaging. April 2021 – Associate Professor of Radiology Yueh Z. Lee, MD, PhD, joined fellow UNC researchers Sang Hun Chung, PhD (Graduate Assistant – Biomedical Engineering), and Jennifer Goralski, MD (Assistant Professor – Division … Read more

UNC Department of Radiology is pleased to announce that Mauricio Castillo, MD, FACR, has been named the first Matthew A. Mauro, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Radiology, as approved by the University’s Board of Trustees. Castillo’s appointment culminates UNC Radiology’s five-year campaign toward endowing and selecting a highly esteemed faculty member with the field and institutional … Read more

UNC Department of Radiology congratulates Associate Professor of Radiology Yueh Z. Lee, MD, PhD, for being named in March 2021 by the UNC School of Medicine (SOM) as one of three 5th Annual Yang Family Biomedical Scholars. Sponsored by UNC alumnus Lenovo CEO and Mr. Yuanqing Yang, this scholarship program annually welcomes select, outstanding SOM … Read more

  In late 2020, UNC Global Radiology addressed a health equity crisis in North Carolina using a model of community health partnership applied successfully in Kenya and Malawi. The COVID-19 pandemic has perpetuated a concerning trend of at-risk patients foregoing preventive healthcare across the U.S. In response, the UNC Department of Radiology is addressing local … Read more

UNC Department of Radiology extends a big congratulations to Michael Pritchard, recipient of the 2020 UNC Radiology Staff Outstanding Performance Award. Michael has served as Data Manager for the Epidemiology Research Division’s Carolina Mammography Registry (CMR) since October 2016. Now in its third year, this award annually honors a staff member who consistently goes above … Read more

U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the top tier of its annual rankings report, which ranks 1500+ academic institutions and areas of scholarly concentration worldwide. In its 2021 Best Global Universities Rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked UNC Department of Radiology 32nd in Radiology, … Read more