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黑料网 Receives Pulmonary Hypertension Care Centers Accreditation

H. James Ford, MD The 黑料网 Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) program has received reaccreditation from the聽Pulmonary Hypertension Association聽as a Comprehensive Care Center (CCC) for the period 2019-2022, building upon their initial accreditation as the first CCC in the state in 2015.聽 This continued designation recognizes the ability to deliver the highest level of inpatient and outpat … Read more

IHQI Improvement Scholars Announced, Five in Medicine

Mildred Kwan The Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement (IHQI) has announced projects that will be supported through IHQI鈥檚 Improvement Scholars Program. Half of these scholars are members of the 黑料网 Department of Medicine, and they include the following.   Mildred Kwan, MD PhD, with lead Renae Boerneke, PharmD, BCPS, CPP — Reducing the Healthcare Utilization of Broad … Read more

Boucher Named to Give Amberson Lecture at American Thoracic Society Meeting

Ric Boucher, MD Ric Boucher, MD, the James C. Moeser Eminent Professor of Medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, and director of the Marsico Lung Institute, has been named to give this year鈥檚 Amberson lecture at the American Thoracic Society meeting, May 15-20 in Philadelphia, PA. The J. Burns Amberson Lecture recognizes a career of major lifet … Read more

Wendlandt Receives Weill Research Grant from SCCM

Blaire Wendlant, MD, MSc Blaire Wendlandt, MD, MSc, a fellow in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, has received a Weill Research Grant from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). Named for SCCM founder and its first president, Max Harry Weil, MD, PhD, MCCM, the SCCM-Weil Research Grant is awarded to SCCM members as a stepping-stone to carry out basic, tr … Read more

Sellers Explains What to Expect This Flu Season

Subhashini Sellers, MD Subhashini Sellers, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, discusses the main types of influenza and explains what to expect during the flu season in this 黑料网 Health Talk article. Sellers also provides education about anti-viral drugs for high-risk patients.

Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: January 1-January 31, 2020

Division of Hematology and Oncology Erica Sparkenbaugh, PhD, and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics fellow Robert Lee, PhD, have been selected to receive Scholar Awards from the American Society of Hematology鈥檚 (ASH). Sparkenbaugh received a $125,000 award to support her research into the mechanisms of thrombin generation and end-organ failure in sickle cell disease.聽Read … Read more

Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: December 1-December 31, 2019

Division of Hematology and Oncology Catherine Coombs, MD, received the Prostate Cancer Foundation鈥檚 Young Investigator Award, which awarded $225,000 across three years to study whether genetic mutations that accumulate in the blood over time are linked to worse outcomes for prostate cancer.聽Read more. Natalie Grover, MD, was awarded a three-year聽Lymphoma Research Foundation Caree … Read more

New Inter-Disciplinary Course with NC State’s College of Veterinary Medicine

Peadar G. Noone, MD Peadar G. Noone, MD, professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, and Kurt Gilliland, PhD, associate professor in the department of cell biology and physiology, have introduced a new course that will allow medical students to do a two-week elective course in animal medicine during their medical school curriculum.聽 Wit … Read more

Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: November 1-November 30, 2019

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Carla M. P. Ribeiro, PhD,聽was awarded a $250,000 grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to study novel targets for CF airway mucus production. Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology Dan Jonas, MD, MPH聽was awarded a $2.2 million grant to address unhealthy alcohol use.聽Learn more. Division of Nephrology and Hyperte … Read more

LeVarge recognized in “Carolina Care Highlight”

Barbara Lee LeVarge, MD (Republished from the 黑料网 Health Care and 黑料网 Newsroom) Our Carolina Care Highlight this week recognizes Dr. Barbara Lee LeVarge from the Department of Medicine’s Division of Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care. Here’s what one of Dr. LeVarge’s patients had to say: 鈥淒r. LeVarge is extremely knowledgeable not only in the disease but ho … Read more

Ilona Jaspers, MD, and Bradley Drummond, MD, are interviewed by WTVD-11 in response to growing health concerns about vaping. E-cigarette studies show vaping, like smoking, may promote emphysema.

Rivera received 2019 Educator Award

M. Patricia Rivera, MD M. Patricia Rivera, MD, received a 2019 Educator Award from the American College of Chest Physicians. The honor was presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Each year, CHEST honors physicians and others who are making significant or meritorious contributions to chest medicine. All honorees are recognized for advancing work in specific areas of … Read more