Beth Jonas, MD, was recently interviewed in a “Curbsiders” podcast discussing lupus. The podcast series focuses heavily on best practices in diagnosing patients with this often difficult-to-diagnose disease, as well as the basic of treatment for patients.

Division of Geriatric Medicine Laura Hanson, MD, MPH, will lead NIA’s new IMPACT Collaboratory’s Patient and Caregiver Reported Outcomes (PCRO) Core, funded by a five-year, $1.4 million grant. Learn more. Division of Hematology/Oncology Lisa Carey, MD, will receive $400,000 from Susan G. Komen to study how HER2+ tumors respond to HER2-targeted therapies. She is one of … Read more

Dr. Matthew Painschab originally thought he would become a lawyer, but a physiology course in college changed his mind. The ability to explain medical phenomena and the research that goes into it attracted him to medicine. Dr. Painschab says the best advice he’s ever received is to approach life the way a cat does, with a consciousness largely of now.

(Republished from the UNC Health Care and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom) UNC will play a key role in the National Institute on Aging’s (NIA) newly announced IMPACT Collaboratory, a national research incubator to improve care and quality of life for people living with dementia. Laura Hanson, MD, will lead the collaboratory’s Patient and Caregiver … Read more

(Excerpt republished from the UNC Health Care and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom) Komen Scientific Advisory Board Member Lisa Carey, MD, will receive $400,000 to study how HER2+ tumors respond to HER2-targeted therapies. This project will integrate and analyze data from more than 1,300 women participating in six neoadjuvant, first step treatment, clinical trials of HER2- … Read more

Kidney specialists and public health officials agree, at-risk populations often go untested for chronic kidney disease (CKD) because patients with early CKD have few or no symptoms to indicate kidney damage. Diagnosis at the earliest stage offers the best patient outcomes. Abhi Kshirsagar, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and director of the UNC Kidney Center’s … Read more

Physician-scientists are uniquely positioned to transfer clinical insights to research discoveries, to return a better understanding of human disease to the clinic. A new initiative led by Laura Loehr, MD, PhD, MS, associate professor in general medicine and clinical epidemiology, and Susan Hogan, PhD, MPH, associate professor in nephrology, will help junior faculty in the … Read more

Access to high quality, specialty care can be challenging. Now, a new tool from the UNC Department of Medicine makes it much easier. “Any UNC physician and advanced practice provider can now use eConsults for fast specialty input on focused clinical questions,” said Spencer Dorn, MD, MPH, MHA, associate professor of medicine in the division … Read more

Ron Falk, MD, chair of the department of medicine, has named Ashley Henderson, MD, associate professor of medicine in pulmonary medicine, and Koyal Jain, MD, assistant professor of medicine in nephrology, the new directors of undergraduate education in the department of medicine. “The best education curriculum responds to changes in medical knowledge and puts them … Read more

Ron Falk, MD, chair of the department of medicine, presented the first Medicine Grand Rounds lecture of the new academic year, on Thursday, September 5. A video recording of the lecture can be found in the Grand Rounds Archives.

Claire Larson, MD, assistant professor in the division of geriatric medicine, is featured in a new UNC Health Talk article for older adults who travel. She offers 11 tips and suggestions that older adults need to keep in mind to stay healthy during a big trip.

Congratulations to our faculty who have secured new grants in the Department of Medicine, July 1 – September 1. Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Shehzad Z. Sheikh, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology, and post-doctoral fellow Takahiko Toyonaga, MD, PhD, have received a fellowship research award from the … Read more