{"id":2505,"date":"2025-04-24T12:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/raredisease\/?page_id=2505"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:58:15","slug":"information-regarding-patient-referrals-and-clinical-trials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/raredisease\/for-health-care-professionals\/information-regarding-patient-referrals-and-clinical-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Regarding Patient Referrals and Clinical Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncchildrens.org\/uncmc\/unc-childrens\/patients-family\/family-partners-program\/\">Family Partners Program<\/a>\u00a0page, which provides information about joining our UNC Council.<\/p>\n<p>The Family Advisory Council (FAC) allows patient families to voice their opinions and provide feedback to hospital leaders on various projects, policies, and programs. FAC members are caregivers whose children have received care at UNC. The council also includes UNC staff from different disciplines who are dedicated to delivering family-centered care. The Family Advisory Council convenes monthly from September through June. Participating in focus groups: Family Partners have the opportunity to participate in focus groups to give feedback or suggest solutions for the planning of our new children\u2019s hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Families can reach out to Logan Blinman directly at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:familypartners@med.unc.edu\"><strong>familypartners@med.unc.edu<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for any referrals or clinical trial inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit our\u00a0Family Partners Program\u00a0page, which provides information about joining our UNC Council. The Family Advisory Council (FAC) allows patient families to voice their opinions and provide feedback to hospital leaders on various projects, policies, and programs. FAC members are caregivers whose children have received care at UNC. The council also includes UNC staff from different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/raredisease\/for-health-care-professionals\/information-regarding-patient-referrals-and-clinical-trials\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Information Regarding Patient Referrals and Clinical Trials\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120676,"featured_media":0,"parent":2302,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2505","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/raredisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/raredisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/raredisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/raredisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/raredisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/raredisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/raredisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2505\/revisions\/2536"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/raredisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/raredisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}