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UNC’s School of Medicine will be switching away from the UNC-1 wireless network, making UNC Secure the network that UNC employees should be connecting too with their wireless devices. A schedule of when UNC-1 will be removed from each building is listed below: http://help.med.unc.edu/wireless-transition

Dr. Elizabeth B. Dreesen hosted the Awards Ceremony for this year’s 2013 Whitehead Lecture Awards. A video of this ceremony can be found here.

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. David Ollila, MD of Oncology has been appointed as the James and Jesse Millis Distinguished Professor at the Department of Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The $1.5 … Continued

(L-R, UNC Surgery Residents Anna Tyson and Melanie Sion, President Bill Clinton, UNC Trauma Surgeon Anthony Charles) Former President Bill Clinton met today with UNC Trauma Surgeon Anthony G. Charles in Malawi to discuss the care of burn patients in … Continued

On Friday, the Surgery Department celebrated with Dr. Colin G. Thomas, Jr. on the 95th anniversary of his birthday. Dr. Thomas was chairman of UNC’s Department of Surgery for 18 years and was one of the first faculty members on … Continued

The Whitehead Medical Society presents the Whitehead Lecture and Awards Ceremony… Doctoring: Learning, Language, and Luck Presented by Dr. Elizabeth B. Dreesen, MD, FACSAssociate Professor, Department of SurgeryTrauma Medical Director, University of NC Hospitals We invite you to come enjoy … Continued

Congratulations to Melissa for being one of the 2013 Plus People award winners. Melissa is a Physician Assistant in the NC Jaycee Burn Center working with in all areas of patient care. We are so proud to have her in … Continued

Ashley D. Meagher, MD, NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow in the UNC Department of Surgery, won the recent North Carolina/South Carolina American College of Surgeons (NC/SC ACS) Trauma/Acute Care Surgery Resident Paper Competition. Her presentation was entitled “Geographic Disparities in Post-hospitalization Rehabilitation After Traumatic Brain Injury,” and was presented at this weekend’s...