6 years ago
Pop quiz, just for men: What’s your doctor’s name? Wait, you do have a doctor, right? Too many men don’t have a family physician and don’t get regular checkups, says Culley Carson, MD, a urologist with UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill. This problem is especially bad among younger men, he says. Between ages 18 …
7 years ago
For the third consecutive year, UNC Urology has climbed the ranks of the best Urology residency programs in the country, moving into the #15 spot. In 2014, Doximity physician network, in collaboration with US News & World Report, announced their first-ever national evaluation of residency programs across 20 specialties. At that time the University of …
7 years ago
Dr. Tan joined UNC in 2016 as an Assistant Professor of Urology and specializes in urologic oncology including prostate cancer. He also is a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
7 years ago
At the annual Society of Academic Urologists meeting (held at the AUA 2017 meeting), Dr. Smith participated in a panel discussion focused on women in the urology workforce. Her presentation highlighted the current and future state of gender-specific pay and advancement in the field of urology. She also presented the bladder cancer take-home points at the AUA Plenary Session
9 years ago
Dr. Matthew Nielsen was recently appointed by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) Board of Directors as the CMSS Representative to the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI). The PCPI, now independent from but principally supported by the AMA, focuses on measurement science, quality improvement, and registries, through the National Quality Registry Network. Together …
9 years ago
Fourteen UNC Urology Faculty are included in the latest compilation of The Best Doctors in America® database. The Best Doctors database contains the names and professional affiliations of more than 53,000 doctors in the United States, all chosen through an exhaustive peer-review survey that asks: “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in …
9 years ago
2015 has been a good year for UNC Urology. In addition to ranking 49th nationally in the U.S. News and World Report listing of the nation’s top hospitals, the department was also listed among the top 20 urology residency programs in the country – 16th this year, up from 20th last year. Two urology doctors …
9 years ago
In 2014, Doximity physician network, in collaboration with US News & World Report, announced their first-ever national evaluation of residency programs across 20 specialties. At that time, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Urology Residency was ranked 20th among Urology programs nationwide. The second annual rankings were published this week, with the UNC Chapel Hill program rising to #16.
9 years ago
UNC's Department of Urology's Dr. Raj Pruthi and Dr. Eric Wallen were recognized as Newsweek's "Top Cancer Doctors" of 2015. The "Top Cancer Doctors 2015" was compiled after 100,000 nominations were carefully reviewed and proceed.
9 years ago
The Massachusetts Medical Society will award Culley C. Carson III, MD, with its Men’s Health Award at their 13th Annual Men’s Health Symposium in June. The award recognizes individuals who have advanced the cause of men’s health. Dr. Carson, a recognized authority on men’s health, is the John Sloan Rhodes and John Flint Rhodes Distinguished Professor of Urology in the Department of Urology at the UNC School of Medicine.
9 years ago
Ten residency programs at the University of North Carolina Hospitals were ranked among the top residencies in the South in results released by Doximity and U.S. News & World Report. Following the program’s ranking in the top 20 urology residencies nationwide in the first-ever national evaluation of residency programs this past fall, UNC Hospitals’ residency …
9 years ago
Mary Dunn, RN, MSN, OCN, NP-C of UNC Urology was recently selected to receive the Oncology Nursing Excellence Award for 2014. Mary has been with the Department of Urology and Medical Oncology since 2010 as an adult nurse practitioner and has served as adjunct faculty for the UNC School of Nursing since 2011. She is …
