Career Day Speakers UNC PM&R Career Day was held on Friday, September 29th. Read below to learn more about our highly informative sessions! On Friday, September 29th, UNC PM&R hosted a “Career Day” which was focused on providing our residents with helpful professional development and career preparation information. The sessions were as follows:     … Read more

Congratulations to the Center for Rehabilitation Care’s staff, faculty, and residents on receiving the 2017 Exceptional Patient Service Award CRC staff pose outside of the CRC with the award! The Center for Rehabilitation Care (“CRC”) was recently awarded UNC’s 2017 Exceptional Patient Service Award. This award is given to clinics who reached or exceeded the … Read more

Congratulations to the 4 faculty within our department for earning this prestigious honor! Yesterday, Best Doctors in America ® released their names of physicians that had been selected as their 2017-2018 Best Doctors in America award recipients. 372 physicians affiliated with UNC Health Care have been selected to the Best Doctors in America List for … Read more

Summary of the “Current Challenges in Rehabilitation Medicine” conference The 2017 Current Challenges in Rehabilitation Medicine conference was hosted on Friday and Saturday, June 16 – 17, 2017 at the William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC. The conference focused on best practices for controlled substance prescribing on Day One and innovative treatment … Read more

Summary of our department’s 15th annual Research Day Keynote Speaker Dr. Francis Walker Our department’s 15th annual Research Day was held on Friday, June 16th in UNC’s Old Clinic Auditorium. Dr. Francis Walker of Wake Forest gave the Patricia C. Gregory Memorial Lecture. His keynote address was followed by presentations by our three graduating PM&R … Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Boyd for being awarded the “Outstanding Off-Service Intern Award.” Michael Boyd, DO was awarded the 2016-2017 “Outstanding Off-Service Intern Award” by UNC’s Internal Medicine department. This award is given to an off-service intern who performs exemplary patient care while rotating on Internal Medicine services. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Boyd!

Paul Thananopavarn, MD has been promoted to Clinical Associate Professor. Paul Thananopavarn, MD Congratulations to Paul Thananopavarn, MD on his promotion to Clinical Associate Professor in UNC’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation! His promotion became effective April 12, 2017. Please join us in congratulating him.

Ordering this quesadilla on a Monday or Tuesday is just one way to help kids in our PM&R pediatric programs! View the full menus @ http://margaretscantina.com. Margaret’s Cantina will donate 10% of their sales to support UNC PM&R’s Pediatric Rehabilitation and TelAbility programs. Every Monday and Tuesday for lunch or dinner, Margaret’s Cantina will donate … Read more

Diane Meyer and Barbara Guiffre at the UNC Center for Rehabilitation Care Since there is no cure for MS, patients, physicians, and physical therapists often form long-term partnerships. In the 12 years since Barbara Guiffre moved to Chapel Hill from New York City, she has spent a lot of time talking to fellow Multiple Sclerosis … Read more

Dr. Bluth Research by Karen Bluth, PhD, an instructor in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation’s Program on Integrative Medicine, is being featured in several mainstream magazines and online blogs. Dr. Bluth is co-investigator of a grant from the The John Rex Endowment to evaluate the feasibility of implementing two evidence-based mindfulness programs, in partnership with Southeast … Read more