In search of factors that increase vulnerability to the novel coronavirus, UNC Children’s Hospital providers, Tracie Walker, MD, and Stephanie Schwartz, MD, capture real-time data on children and youth hospitalized with COVID-19. Since its inception in March of 2020, UNC has been participating in the study Overcoming COVID-19, led by Adrienne Randolph, MD, MSc, in Critical … Read more

Samantha Schilling, MD, MSHP awarded Research Project Grant (R01) “Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement in Primary Care: Effectiveness Trial of a Primary Care Based Parenting Intervention to Prevent Child Maltreatment.” Samantha Schilling, MD, MSHP, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of  General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine has been awarded funding for her Research Project Grant (R01) … Read more

Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Healthcare (PPMH) for a mini symposium focused on Health Disparities and Precision Health. This virtual mini-symposium will take place on December 9th from 1:30 to 3:00pm. Please contact Precision Health via email for the Zoom link. We hope to see you there!

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend our COVID-19 pediatric research panel on November 10. If you were unable to attend, we have posted the questions and answers posed to the panel here. The panelists who fielded questions were Stephanie Schwartz, MD and Zachary Willis, MD, MPH. Do we have a reliable estimate of … Read more

Miranda van Tilburg, PhD, a health psychologist with the UNC Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Maria Díaz-González de Ferris, MD, a physician in the UNC Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, recently published a study in the journal Children. The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced unprecedented levels of stress for parents, … Read more