University leaders celebrate a Blue Cross NC investment in Physician Assistant program
The $1.2 million gift will be used to accommodate more students, recruit top faculty and develop rural sites for students to participate in clinical rotations.
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University leaders celebrate a Blue Cross NC investment in Physician Assistant program
The $1.2 million gift will be used to accommodate more students, recruit top faculty and develop rural sites for students to participate in clinical rotations.
UNC Health Care CEO, Medical School Dean Bill Roper plans to step down in 2019
Roper led expansion efforts in education, research, and clinical care that improved health for all North Carolinians.
Remembering Stuart Bondurant, dean emeritus of the UNC School of Medicine
This past weekend, the UNC School of Medicine lost one of its great leaders. Stuart Bondurant served as dean for 15 years and interim dean for two more years.
New paradigm adds a ‘fourth trimester’ to transform care for new mothers
A study by UNC-Chapel Hill researchers recommends enhancing attentiveness to the individual needs of new mothers and transforming postpartum care from a single encounter to an ongoing process.
Gillings School partners on a banner symposium exploring the 1918 flu pandemic
The symposium was an interdisciplinary experience that examined the impact of the 1918 flu from the lenses of various disciplines including medicine, English, epidemiology, history, communications and veterinary medicine.
Genomic analysis of thousands of tumors supports new cancer classification
A new study led by UNC Lineberger's Katherine Hoadley supports an additional classification for human tumors. The findings could help researchers to identify cancers of an unknown primary origin. It could also have implications for treating cancers across tumor types.
