Category: Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine
Nose-Only COVID Masks Are Emerging in South Korea
Richard Boucher, MD, was interviewed for a Newsweek report about a new kind of face mask emerging in South Korea that spurs questions as to how useful it actually is to fight the spread of COVID-19. The mask, which has been seen on Twitter, covers just the nose and was created as a tool to make eating and drinking in public safer. Some masks are sold as just the nose piece, desig … Read more
Medicine Announces Value-Care Action Group Awardees for Next Academic Year
The Department of Medicine’s Value-Care Action Group has awarded four value-care improvement projects that will start in July, 2022. Awardees are listed below with overviews of their projects. Cody Deen, MD: A Chest Pain Transitions Clinic at UNC Hillsborough. The management of patients who present to the emergency department (ED) with acute chest pain is a clinical challenge tha … Read more
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: February 1 – February 28, 2022
Division of Infectious Diseases David L. Rosen, MD, PhD, MSPH, received a $580,000 Duke Endowment Award to compare the impact of transition-to-care service programs on healthcare utilization and mortality among people with chronic health conditions released from the NC state prison system. Division of Oncology Brian C. Miller, MD, PhD, received a $700,000 Burroughs Wellcome Grant … Read more
Maguire Appointed Director of the Critical Care Selective in Undergraduate Medical Education
Jennifer Maguire, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, has been appointed Director of the Critical Care Selective, a required course for every medical student in their final year of undergraduate medical education. Sofia Aliaga, MD, who previously held the appointment, is the newly named Director of Simulation, Expe … Read more
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: December 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Honey Jones, DNP, ACNP-BC, MBA, was awarded funding from the Clinical Investment Committee for the “Critical Care Advanced Practice Provider Support Program” (CCAPPS). Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology The Osteoarthritis Action Alliance received a $100K/one-year grant from the NextFifty Initiative. Leigh Callahan, Ph … Read more
Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction with Cystic Fibrosis and Cystic Fibrosis-Related Diabetes
Ischemic heart disease is rarely reported in people with cystic fibrosis despite multiple potential risk factors. In a paper published in the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, Jennifer Goralski, MD, Sirisha Thambuluru, MD, Katherine (Alex) Despotes, MD, and Deepa Kirk, MD, report on two cases of ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), both in young women with cystic fibrosis and cy … Read more
Burks Receives Lung Cancer Idea Development Award from the US Department of Defense
Allen Cole Burks, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, has received a US Department of Defense Lung Cancer Research Program (LCRP) Idea Development Award (IDA) for the development and optimization of a miniaturized high intensity focused ultrasound ablation catheter. The Idea Development Award promotes new ideas tha … Read more
Featured Physician: Kenton Dover, MD
Dr. Kenton Dover comes from Bear Grass, North Carolina, and was a Protestant minister prior to studying medicine. His desire to help people, especially in the most challenging of life’s circumstances, ultimately led him to pursue a career as a physician in pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine. In addition to clinical work, he’s interested in quality improvement, palliati … Read more
Ribiero Publishes “Impact of Airway Inflammation on the Efficacy of CFTR Modulators” in the Journal Cells
Carla Ribiero, PhD, professor of medicine in the division pulmonary and critical care medicine, expands the understanding of how airway inflammation improves CFTR rescue and may benefit cystic fibrosis patients, in a new review published in Cells. The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein is responsible for regulating the proper flow of chloride and s … Read more
Jones Awarded Funding For “Critical Care Advanced Practice Provider Support Program”
Honey M. Jones, DNP, ACNP-BC, MBA, FAANP, FCCM, Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, has been awarded funding from the Clinical Investment Committee for the “Critical Care Advanced Practice Provider Support Program” (CCAPPS), developed in collaboration with members of the Advanced Practice Provider Center’s critical care workgroup. The CCAP … Read more
“Medical Center Rock Stars” Travel to UNC Rockingham to Lead an Educational Workshop on COVID ICU Care
Lydia Chang, MD, associate professor in pulmonary and critical care medicine, and Heath Patel, MD, a third-year fellow, traveled to UNC Rockingham on Saturday, Nov 11, with a team of critical care providers, nurses, pharmacists, and respiratory therapists. The team met with the UNCR Emergency Department and ICU/Medical team to provide education on tools to use when caring for cri … Read more
Foretelling Early Lung Disease Progression in Cystic Fibrosis: The Combined Benefits of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Newborn Screening
An editorial by Jennifer L. Goralski, MD, assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, was featured in the October 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, titled “Foretelling Early Lung Disease Progression in Cystic Fibrosis: The Combined Benefits of Magnetic Resonance Imaging … Read more