Tag: 2013

With a recent $4.2 million NIH grant, Thomas Egan, MD, professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, has started a clinical study that tests a method of retrieving healthy lungs from donors who suffer … Continued

Dr. Bruce Cairns, the medical director of the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center since 2007 and Director of Research since 2003, will receive the Edward Kidder Graham Award during the Installation of UNC’s newest Chancellor, Dr. Carol Folt. For more information, … Continued

Lynn Damitz, MD, Associate Professor in the Surgery Department, has the honor of being elected to the School of Medicine Fixed Term Committee. The term will last for the next three years. This is a great honor, to be selected … Continued

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