UNC Patient-Centered Perioperative Care | PCPC Lab - Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Led by principal investigator, Gita Mody, MD, MPH, the Patient-Centered Perioperative Care (PCPC) Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill focuses on innovative local and global research efforts to improve standard of care and patient-centered outcomes for high-risk surgical patients worldwide. We welcome cross-departmental collaborators, sponsors, and other organizations to partner with our multidisciplinary team.

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Listen to Dr. Gita Mody discuss the intersection of public health and thoracic surgery on this episode of the Thoracic Surgery Clinics Podcast:

News and events:
	Drs. Mahlet, Gita, and Maurice after finishing surgery at King Faisal Hospital, Rwanda. (Feb 2026)
	Gita Mody discusses patient perceptions of ePROs for symptom monitoring after surgery with University of Alabama Cardiothoracic surgeons and fellows.
	Gita Mody is inducted into the American Association for Thoracic Surgery during the 2025 Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, and gives commentary on abstracts presented about global health capacity building and trainee well-being.
	Chase Cox wins Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2025 Nathan a. Womack Surgical Society Research Day for “Quality of Life during Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome (ePRO) Monitoring in Thoracic Surgery Patients: a Randomized Clinical Trial.”
	Chase Cox presents “Cancer Patient Preoperative Communication on Quality of Life and Symptom Burden: Preliminary Results” at the 2025 Academic Surgical Congress in Las Vegas, Nevada.
	The PCPC Lab takes on an escape room challenge during their latest retreat.

Read our latest research:

Mody, G. N., Bennett, A. V., Stover, A. M., Jonsson, M., Teal, R., Vu, M., Carda-Auten, J., Jansen, J., Carr, P., Dueck, A., Henson, S., & Basch, E. (2025). Implementation of Symptom Monitoring With Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes: Perspectives and Recommendations From Community Oncology Practices (Alliance AFT-39). JCO oncology practice, OP2400627. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1200/OP-24-00627

Stover, A. M., Deal, A. M., Medley, C. J., Weiner, A. A., Novak, L., Gentry, A. L., Hoch, C., Weiss, J., Pecot, C. V., Lee, C. B., O’Leary, M. C., Shrestha, S., Chen, H., Patel, S. A., & Mody, G. N. (2025). Feasibility, Acceptability, and Utility of Remote Patient-Reported Outcomes Monitoring in Patients With Lung Cancer: A Moovcare© Study. Clinical lung cancer, S1525-7304(25)00160-3. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cllc.2025.07.016

O’Leary, M. C., Kwong, E., Cox, C., Gentry, A. L., Stover, A. M., Vu, M. B., Carda-Auten, J., Leeman, J., & Mody, G. N. (2024). Patient motivators of postoperative electronic patient-reported outcome symptom monitoring use in thoracic surgery patients: a qualitative study. Journal of patient-reported outcomes, 8(1), 81. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41687-024-00766-0

Boisson-Walsh, A., Cox, C., O’Leary, M., Shrestha, S., Carr, P., Gentry, A. L., Hill, L., Newsome, B., Long, J., Haithcock, B., Stover, A. M., Basch, E., Leeman, J., & Mody, G. N. (2024). A Qualitative Study of Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Symptom Monitoring After Thoracic Surgery. The Journal of surgical research, 303, 744–755.

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