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The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty throughout the month of March. 


Vimal Derebail, MD, MPH, presented at the Kidney Disease Clinical Trialists meeting.

Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH, was interviewed about the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis and the limitations of his team’s recent study.

Edwin Kim, MD, MS, led a clinical trial that found an increased dosage of a unique type of peanut allergy immunotherapy continues to show promise for children.

Scott Commins, MD, PhD, spoke about alpha-gal syndrome during the LivLyme Virtual Summit.

Saira Sheikh, MD, was interviewed by Medpage Today about the impact COVID-19 had on physical activity levels for patients with rheumatologic diseases.

Ada Adimora, MD, MPH, and Joe Eron, MD, guided a study that shows standardizing national treatment guidelines could prevent health disparities in care.

John Batsis, MD, was featured in a WRAL article about “super agers” and spoke with STAT about concerns with the use of new weight loss drugs in older adults.

Sarah McGill, MD, Msc, spoke about microbiome therapy and the set backs the field has faced.

Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS, examined the study behind the New York Time’s column claiming mask mandates didn’t work.

Watch this touching video about UNC patient Sonya Marshmon’s journey with heart failure, featuring Patricia Pat-Yue Change, MD, MHS.

Tammy Triglianos, DNP, ANP-BC, AOCNP, participated in a podcast about what APPs in oncology do.

Katherine Reeder-Hayes, MD, MBA, MSc, published a study showing race and geography are lined to different risks of breast cancer treatment delays.

Margaret Drickamer, MD, spoke about navigating end-of-life care with The Washington Post.

Joseph Eron, MD, discussed using lenacapavir and two broadly neutralizing antibodies for treatment of HIV.

Anil K. Gehi, MD, was featured in a New York Times article after putting ChatGPT-4, an AI intelligence system, to the test.

Christine Kistler, MD, MASc, spoke about the seriousness of falls for older adults in this Washington Post article.

Ron Falk, MD, published a paper in The New England Journal of Medicine titled, “Inaxaplin for Proteinuric Kidney Disease in Persons with Two APOL1 Variants.”

Jennifer Goralski, MD, collaborated on this article on breathing 19F MRI ventilation imaging.

Ria Dancel, MD, FACP, SFHM, FAAP, published a review on cardiac point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) across specialties.

Experts lead scientific discussions at Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) World Congress.

Ada Adimora, MD, MPH, FIDSA, was quoted in a Healio article about an FDA committee voting in support of Paxlovid for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infections.

Jiandong Zhang, MD, and Brian Kelley, MD, were mentioned in this article about

the association of exposure to road traffic noise with increased risk for hypertension.

Kelli Allen, PhD, lead the publishing of a new paper: “Evaluating Osteoarthritis Management Programs” (OAMPs).