Raul Necochea, receives Foundation Phase Teaching Excellence Award
Academy of Educators Names 2022-23 Teaching Award Recipients
Academy of Educators Names 2022-23 Teaching Award Recipients
Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds Black patients with opioid use disorder were far less likely to fill prescriptions for the most effective addiction treatments than white patients. But strikingly few patients of all races got the medicine. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/health/addiction-treatment-buprenorphine-suboxone.html
This year’s Ned Brooks award went to Giselle Corbie, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine; Director, Center for Health Equity Research; Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. Corbie was recognized for her distinguished and sustained record of service to Carolina and the larger community. Corbie is noted for her dedication and commitment to fostering healthier, stronger … Read more
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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks to Dr. Anne Lyerly, a professor and OB-GYN, about how hospital ethics boards are being invoked when a patient requires a medical exception to an abortion ban. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1162917337/in-states-with-abortion-bans-hospital-ethics-boards-have-the-power-to-make-excep
The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the election of 12 new fellows. Hastings Center fellows are a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology. The new fellows focus on a broad range of … Read more
Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, is co-editor of a new special issue on “The Price of Progress: Managing Prescription Drug Spending” published by the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. The issue considers the sources of high drug spending in the U.S. and policy reforms to make prescription drugs more affordable, including analysis of provisions of … Read more
New recommendations address crisis of physician stress
Gail Henderson, PhD, coauthored a new book, Bioethics Reenvisioned: A Path Toward HealthJustice (UNC Press, 2022). The book, coauthored with two former Social Medicine faculty members,Nancy King and Larry Churchill, argues it is time for bioethics to take full account of the problems ofhealth disparities and structural injustice that are made newly urgent by the … Read more
Giselle Corbie, MD, Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine, has been named the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill. https://www.med.unc.edu/medicine/dr-giselle-corbie-named-vice-provost-for-faculty-affairs/