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Congratulations to Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS, FACS who has been approved by the Board of Directors of the American Urological Association's (AUA) as the next chair of the Science and Quality (S&Q) Council. Dr. Nielsen will assume the role of chair-elect on June 1, 2021 and serve a four-year term.

We are very excited to welcome Dr. Katherine Chan to UNC Urology. Dr. Chan joins our Pediatric Urology team and will be the Director of the Pediatric Kidney Stone Clinic and Pediatric Urology Research.

This year, UNC Urology's Drs. Kristy Borawski and Angela Smith were both elected to join faculty Standing Committees. This opportunity provides Drs. Borawski and Smith the chance to participate in medical school governance.

Dr. Friedlander was selected to receive this year’s Endourological Society Joseph Segura, MD Scholarship in Endourology and Stone Management Award for a two-year study titled Improving pathways of care for renal colic as a means to address low-value services. UNC Urology’s Drs. Matthew Nielsen and Angela Smith as well as Duke Urology’s Dr. Charles Scales will serve as mentors on the project.

The UNC School of Medicine recently announced that Yueh Lee, MD, Ph.D., (Radiology), Jiandong Liu, Ph.D. (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine), and Angela Smith, MD, (Urology) have been named as recipients of the 5th annual Yang Family Biomedical Scholars Award.

Congratulations to Marc Bjurlin, DO, MSc, FACOS on his recent selection to the AUA's Clinical Trails Education (CTE) Steering Committee.

The AUA Advanced Practice Provider Membership Committee has named Mary Dunn, RN, MSN, OCN, NP-C as the 2021 APP of the Year Award - recognizing her contributions and accomplishments of in the field of urology.

Congratulations to Marc Bjurlin, DO, MSc, FACOS on his recent selection to lead the Imaging Team, a sub-team of the AUA's New Technologies & Imaging Committee.

Congratulations to Drs. Borawski, Coward, Figler, Nielsen, Raynor, Ross, Smith, Sutherland, Tan, Viprakasit, and Wallen received the 2021 'Top Doctor' designation from Castle Connolly.

UNC Urology’s Mary Dunn, MSN, NP-C, OCN, RN has been Co-Chairing a recent initiative to create part of the AUA APP Oncology Curriculum.

The Department of Urology at UNC-Chapel Hill delivers excellence in patient care, education, and research. In addition to their clinical work, our faculty are leaders nationally and internationally, advancing the field and mentoring the next generation of leaders in Urology. Please join us in celebrating the many recent accomplishments of the Department.

Congratulations James Frisbie (University of Maryland), Hannah Kay (University of Texas at Austin), and Asia Matthew-Onabanjo (University of Massachusetts) - our UNC Urology Residency Class of '26. We look forward to greeting you all in Chapel Hill later this year.

Category: News

Dr. Nielsen Approved as Next Chair of the AUA Science & Quality Council

UNC Urology Welcomes Dr. Katherine Chan, MD, MPH

Drs. Borawski and Smith Elected to Faculty Standing Committees

Dr. David Friedlander Named 2021 Urology Care Foundation Research Scholar Awardee

Smith Selected as 2020-21 Yang Family Biomedical Scholar

Dr. Bjurlin Selected For AUA’s Clinical Trials Education Steering Committee

Mary Dunn, RN, MSN, OCN, NP-C Wins AUA’s 2021 ‘Advanced Practice Provider of the Year’ Award

Dr. Bjurlin To Lead Imaging Team in AUA’s New Technologies & Imaging Committee

Raynor & Tan Expand UNC Urology’s ‘Castle Connolly Top Doctors’ Ranks to 11

UNC’s Dunn and UW’s Gore Co-Chair New AUA Oncology Education Initiative for APPs

2020: The Year in Review

Match Day 2021 – UNC Urology Residency Class of ’26