October 16, 2012 — Longtime University of North Carolina President Bill Friday, who died Oct. 12, was a friend of health care at UNC. In 2009, he used his own medical experiences at UNC to educate others.
July 1, 2012 — William E. Stansfield, M.D., joined the UNC faculty on July 1 as assistant professor of surgery in the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Stansfield, who specializes in heart surgery for adults, practices as a cardiothoracic surgeon at UNC Hospitals.
June 21, 2012 — Heart specialists at Rex Healthcare, part of UNC Health Care, are offering a new procedure to repair heart valves.
Jun e 6, 2012 — Tom Egan, a professor of surgery at UNC, has spent years researching a solution to the shortage of lungs for transplant. He is now studying lungs from a previously-untapped pool of donors – people who have died suddenly, away from the hospital.
June 6, 2012 — Thomas M. Egan, M.D., of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, has received a $100,000 grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for his project “Is there NO solution to IRI? Nitric oxide to improve and expand lung transplant.”
