{"id":4549,"date":"2025-10-16T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/menshealth\/?page_id=4549"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:10:05","slug":"new-bern-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/urology\/mens-health\/outreach\/screening-events\/new-bern-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bern 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4551 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/urology\/mens-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/2024\/03\/Mens-Health-New-Bern-300x185.jpeg\" alt=\"Group photo of participants of the screening event.\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/urology\/mens-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/2024\/03\/Mens-Health-New-Bern-300x185.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/urology\/mens-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/2024\/03\/Mens-Health-New-Bern-1024x632.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/urology\/mens-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/2024\/03\/Mens-Health-New-Bern-768x474.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/urology\/mens-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/2024\/03\/Mens-Health-New-Bern-1536x949.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/urology\/mens-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/2024\/03\/Mens-Health-New-Bern-2048x1265.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/urology\/mens-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/2024\/03\/Mens-Health-New-Bern-600x371.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The UNC Men\u2019s Health Program is excited to host another &#8220;Men, Know Your Numbers\u201d screening event for the New Bern Community. These events are open to all and aims to raise awareness and screen men for their most common causes of illness.<\/p>\n<p>Our distinguished panel of speakers includes talks with prostate cancer survivor and community advocate Victor Taylor, local legend Phil Ford of basketball fame and as well as an informational discussion with UNC Urologist Dr. Eric Wallen.<\/p>\n<p>One of our supporters, LabCorp, will be onsite, offering men free blood draws to assess essential health metrics such as prostate-specific antigen (PSA), the blood sugar test Hemoglobin A1C, and cholesterol levels.<\/p>\n<p>The Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN) will also be participating &#8211; providing educational material to all those in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>We are grateful to our community partners: The Duke Cancer Institute Office of Health Equity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row  oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12 oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<h2>Event Time &amp; Location<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Saturday, February 10, 2024<\/strong><br \/>\nDoors Open @ 9:45am<br \/>\nEvent Starts @ 10:00am<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jasper G. Hayes Omega Center<\/strong><br \/>\n800 Cedar Street<br \/>\nNew Bern, NC 28560<\/p>\n<p>Lunch Will Be Provided<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12 oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Eric Wallen, MD, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNCurology?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UNCurology<\/a> oncologist, says early detection is vital to improve survival rates! \u201cWe\u2019re trying to raise awareness and bring people to action to bend the arc of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/prostate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#prostate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cancer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cancer<\/a> because, if we hit it early, we can cure it,\u201d he says.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0ypOqJHwJ1\">https:\/\/t.co\/0ypOqJHwJ1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UNC School of Medicine (@UNC_SOM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNC_SOM\/status\/1758529224418226321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Event Sponsors<\/h2>\n<p><a name=\"sponsors\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.labcorp.com\/\">Labcorp<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/prostatehealthed.org\/index.html\">Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pfizer.com\/\">Pfizer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/en\/\">Bayer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonscientific.com\/en-US\/Home.html\">Boston Scientific<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Event Partners<\/h2>\n<p>Carolina East Health System<br \/>\nCraven County Health Department<br \/>\nDuke Cancer Institute Office of Health Equity<br \/>\nNC Navigator Consortium<br \/>\nSeniors&#8217; Health Insurance Information Program<br \/>\nVision Forward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UNC Men\u2019s Health Program is excited to host another &#8220;Men, Know Your Numbers\u201d screening event for the New Bern Community. 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Our distinguished panel of speakers includes talks with prostate cancer survivor and community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/urology\/mens-health\/outreach\/screening-events\/new-bern-2024\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Bern 2024\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79967,"featured_media":0,"parent":3834,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4549","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Bern 2024 | UNC Men\u2019s Health Program<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/urology\/mens-health\/outreach\/screening-events\/new-bern-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Bern 2024 | UNC Men\u2019s Health Program\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The UNC Men\u2019s Health Program is excited to host another &#8220;Men, Know Your Numbers\u201d screening event for the New Bern Community. 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