The congressman was then honored with the Cure HHT’s Champion Award for his work securing funding for a multi-state pilot program that will be headquartered in Chapel Hill and led by Raj Kasthuri, MD, director of UNC’s HHT Center of Excellence. Dr. Kasthuri is also an assistant professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology.
Speaker: Nikolaos Frangogiannis, MD: Edmond J Safra/Republic National Bank of New York Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine; Professor, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.Topic: The functional pluralism of fibroblasts in the remodeling myocardium Additional information from Dr. Frangogiannis: Cardiac fibroblast populations expand following injury and mediate repair, while contributing to adverse remodeling and ventricular … Read more
Following is a message from Dr. Lisa Carey, chief of the division of hematology and oncology, and Dr. Nigel Key, director of the UNC Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, on the passing of Dr. Harold Roberts. This will be updated as information becomes available.
Speaker: Michael Bode, MD. Cardiology Fellow, UNCTopic: Protease-activated Receptors in Cardiac Disease
Seventy-six (76) faculty physicians in the Department of Medicine have been named to the 2017-2018 Best Doctors in America® list. Only five percent of doctors in America earn this peer selected honor as a result of the biennial Best Doctors Poll.
While one patient waits coughing into a mask, another could present with chest pain or arrive by ambulance after a trauma. The ER cares for people with every imaginable issue. Some are life-threatening. Some are not, but they all require immediate care. How does a medical center compassionately serve each and use resources efficiently? The answer is UNC’s 1 Memorial Observation Unit.
UNC will be well represented at a signature nephrology event this fall. Keisha Gibson, MD, MPH, chief of the division of pediatric nephrology and assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics, and Patrick H. Nachman, MD, FASN, Marion Stedman Covington Distinguished Professor and deputy director of the UNC Kidney Center, have been invited to serve on the International Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference on Glomerular Diseases.
Dr. Richard Loeser was recently interviewed for an NPR health story about the increase in osteoarthritis of the knee. The story “6,000-Year-Old Knee Joints Suggest Osteoarthritis Isn’t Just Wear And Tear” aired on NPR’s Morning Edition, August 15, 2017.
Dr. Brian Jensen will be giving this year’s annual Whitehead Lecture.
The major areas of research are organized thematically around the following topics; each tab when clicked will reveal more details on each related project. ANCA Vasculitis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Glomerular Diseases Diabetic Kidney Disease Epidemiology and Outcomes Research in Kidney Disease Kidney Development and Function Novel Imaging Techniques in Nephrology ANCA Vasculitis and Systemic … Read more
The 2017 Whitehead Lecture took place on Wednesday, August 9. This year’s lecture was delivered by Brian C. Jensen, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, and awards were presented after the lecture to faculty and students.
Dr. Richard Loeser, a rheumatologist and investigator who heads the UNC Thurston Arthritis Research Center, has been awarded grants totaling $4 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for two osteoarthritis projects.