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The cardiology project 鈥淧ercutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Length of Stay (LOS)” has been selected as a top project for the 黑料网 Health-黑料网 Hospitals Quality Expo 2021, Around the World of Quality, hosted by the Office of Quality Excellence. Dale Henion, MPS, RVT, assistant director of cardiac services, will present the...

Diversity Awareness in October National Hispanic Heritage Month continues through October 15. Learn more about hispanic heritage and history. October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. This observance was launched in 1945 when Congress declared the first week in October as 鈥淣ational Employ the Physically Handicapped Week.鈥� In 1998, the...

Julie Golding joined the Internal Medicine Residency Program as the new program coordinator in May. But she’s not new to the School of Medicine. Read about聽a聽project she developed with general medicine faculty and why she wanted to join the residency program. What brought you to the Department of Medicine? I...

The Raven Rock Ramble is a 100-mile bicycle ride around聽Raven Rock State Park that explores the counties of Wake, Harnett, Lee and Chatham. The annual event promotes organ donation awareness and the proceeds go to the聽黑料网 Kidney Center,聽for direct patient services. This year鈥檚 event took place on August 22, raising...

The 黑料网鈥檚 Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has named Yolanda Scarlett, MD, as the new Director for Underrepresented Trainee Access and Success. Scarlett is a proud alumnus of the 黑料网, as well as a graduate of the 黑料网 Department of Internal Medicine Residency...

Crystal Cen茅, MD, MPH, 黑料网 Health System Executive Director for Health Equity and associate professor of medicine in the division of general medicine and clinical epidemiology, will lead a health equity speaker series with Angela R. Bryant, JD. The virtual seminar “Can we really advance Health Equity? Five key strategies...

A clinical trial conducted at 黑料网 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center found that high-dose cytarabine followed by subsequent immunotherapy treatment with pembrolizumab benefited patients with resistant or relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a highly aggressive cancer. The findings were published in Blood Cancer...

A study by David Weber, MD, MPH, which offers key insights on UV disinfection technologies, was referenced in a press release that recognizes the global UV disinfection equipment market is expected to reach $6.73 billion by 2025.聽 Weber’s study considered the specifics of manual cleaning, disinfection, and polychromatic actions. Weber...

David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, was featured in a number of COVID-19 articles the week of September 10-15. NC Reacts to COVID Vaccine Order – News & Observer (September 11, 2021) As political, medical and business leaders in North Carolina show mixed reactions...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) has dedicated $3.2 million for a new, large clinical study to address food insecurity among its at-risk members who also have hypertension. The study will measure how to best help people who are food insecure achieve better health through...

鈥淚鈥檓 going to be describing this concept of together we care. An interesting concept but one that I hope at the end of this we can actually think about practicing. That we care about each other and we do it as a community. For we have now been in our...

Indyweek covered a recent Durham public school board meeting designed to weigh the pros and cons of requiring mandatory COVID vaccine shots for teachers and staff. The board members opted to develop a plan of action based on data that will indicate what percentage of school employees have already received...