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Category: Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine

  • Rivera Appointed Secretary-Treasurer of the American Thoracic Society, President in 2023

    Patricia Rivera, MD, ATSF, professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, has been elected the secretary-treasurer of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and will serve as president of the organization in 2023. “This a banner day for the Division and the School of Medicine,” said Shannon Carson, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the division. … Read more

  • Thomas Bice, MD

    Bice Recognized As Everyday Hero Caring For COVID-19 Patients

    Thomas Bice, MD, MSc, takes care of some of the sickest coronavirus patients at UNC Medical Center. He was recently named an everyday hero by Spectrum News. “This is the most severe pandemic certainly in my career,” said Bice, while expressing his optimism for current measures to slow the peak of the virus. He also reminds people that there are may other employees in the hospital … Read more

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    Pulmonary Fellow Kenton Dover Creates Children’s Book For Families of Healthcare Workers

    Kenton Dover, MD, a fellow in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, created a children’s book with his son Levi, for families of healthcare workers. The book introduces a series of questions that a young child may ask in order to understand why a parent’s job requires more time away, compared to other careers. He says the pandemic is not what inspired book but it … Read more

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    Bice Interviewed by WRAL with Wife Katie, Who Organizes Meal Train for Healthcare Workers

    Thomas Bice, MD, assistant professor in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, and his wife Katie, were interviewed by WRAL.com for an article about how the local community is supporting healthcare workers. Katie is working with volunteers to prepare individually-packed meals and organize deliveries to UNC Hospital workers. Find the article here.

  • March- Grants and Funding

    Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: March 1-March 31, 2020

    Division of Hematology and Oncology Nigel Key, MD, ChB, CRCP, received a $180,000 grant for the “Evaluating the Mechanism of Emicizumab-related Thrombotic Microangiopathy.” Tracy L. Rose, MD MPH, received an NCI K08 grant for the project “Selective histone deacetylase inhibition with entinostat to enhance the anti-tumor immune response to immune checkpoint inhibition in urothelia … Read more

  • UNC Receives Pulmonary Hypertension Care Centers Accreditation

    The UNC Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) program has received reaccreditation from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association as a Comprehensive Care Center (CCC) for the period 2019-2022, building upon their initial accreditation as the first CCC in the state in 2015.  This continued designation recognizes the ability to deliver the highest level of inpatient and outpatient care in a mul … Read more

  • Clare Mock, MD

    IHQI Improvement Scholars Announced, Five in Medicine

    The Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement (IHQI) has announced projects that will be supported through IHQI’s Improvement Scholars Program. Half of these scholars are members of the UNC Department of Medicine, and they include the following.   Mildred Kwan, MD PhD, with lead Renae Boerneke, PharmD, BCPS, CPP — Reducing the Healthcare Utilization of Broad Spectrum Ant … Read more

  • Ric Boucher, MD

    Boucher Named to Give Amberson Lecture at American Thoracic Society Meeting

    Ric Boucher, MD, the James C. Moeser Eminent Professor of Medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, and director of the Marsico Lung Institute, has been named to give this year’s Amberson lecture at the American Thoracic Society meeting, May 15-20 in Philadelphia, PA. The J. Burns Amberson Lecture recognizes a career of major lifetime contribution … Read more

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    Wendlandt Receives Weill Research Grant from SCCM

    Blaire Wendlandt, MD, MSc, a fellow in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, has received a Weill Research Grant from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). Named for SCCM founder and its first president, Max Harry Weil, MD, PhD, MCCM, the SCCM-Weil Research Grant is awarded to SCCM members as a stepping-stone to carry out basic, translational, or clinical … Read more

  • Subhashini Sellers, MD

    Sellers Explains What to Expect This Flu Season

    Subhashini Sellers, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, discusses the main types of influenza and explains what to expect during the flu season in this UNC Health Talk article. Sellers also provides education about anti-viral drugs for high-risk patients.

  • January- Grants and Funding

    Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: January 1-January 31, 2020

    Division of Hematology and Oncology Erica Sparkenbaugh, PhD, and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics fellow Robert Lee, PhD, have been selected to receive Scholar Awards from the American Society of Hematology’s (ASH). Sparkenbaugh received a $125,000 award to support her research into the mechanisms of thrombin generation and end-organ failure in sickle cell disease. Read … Read more

  • December- Grants and Funding

    Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: December 1-December 31, 2019

    Division of Hematology and Oncology Catherine Coombs, MD, received the Prostate Cancer Foundation’s Young Investigator Award, which awarded $225,000 across three years to study whether genetic mutations that accumulate in the blood over time are linked to worse outcomes for prostate cancer. Read more. Natalie Grover, MD, was awarded a three-year Lymphoma Research Foundation Caree … Read more