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Powers Receives AAN’s 2021 A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award

January 19, 2021
Professor William J. Powers, MD, is a professor of neurology within the Division of Stroke and Vascular Neurology.

Carolina Care Excellence Award Winners Announced

January 8, 2021
Please join us in congratulating neurologists Nina Browner, MD, and Richard Murrow, MD!

ºÚÁÏÍø Neurology mourns the loss of Betty Allen, RN

December 18, 2020
Retired pediatric nurse Betty F. Allen, RN, passed away on Thursday, December 17 from non-COVID-19 related issues. Betty grew up in Pittsboro, NC and graduated from Watt’s School of Nursing in Durham, NC in 1974. Betty served as a nurse for 46 years with a special interest in the neuroscience...

Neurology News – December 2020

November 30, 2020
What's new in the Department of Neurology

ºÚÁÏÍø Child Neurology Social Worker Seeks to Address Barriers to Care

November 30, 2020
Alyssa Draffin, LCSW, recently went to extraordinary lengths to ensure that a 12-year-old boy with undiagnosed autism receive an evaluation that would qualify him for therapy and special services.

ACTG names second new award for Kevin Robertson

November 25, 2020
Serena Spudich, MD, professor of neurology and chief of Neurological Infections & Global Neurology at Yale University, is the first recipient of this award named in honor of beloved ºÚÁÏÍø neurology professor Kevin Robertson, PhD.

Olm-Shipman selected as AMA Health Systems Scholar

November 17, 2020
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery Casey Olm-Shipman, MD, MS, was selected as an AMA Health Systems Scholar, a one-year mentored program aimed at developing Health Systems Science (HSS) leaders. In support of her recent appointment as ºÚÁÏÍø’s Director of HSS for Graduate Medical Education, Dr. Olm-Shipman’s AMA project will...

Scientists show how brain flexibility emerges in infants

November 14, 2020
ºÚÁÏÍø BRIC researchers led by Weili Lin, PhD, used magnetic resonance imaging techniques to show the emergence of a functional flexible brain during early infancy.

2020 Broyhill Research Award in Child Neurology Recipients Announced

November 10, 2020
The ºÚÁÏÍø Department of Neurology is proud to announce that child neurologists Senyene Hunter, MD, PhD, and Diana Cejas, MD, MPH, are this year’s recipients of the ºÚÁÏÍø Broyhill Research Award in Child Neurology.

Center for Animal MRI at BRIC Receives NIH Grants to Upgrade Facilities

November 3, 2020
The Center for Animal MRI (CAMRI) at the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), led by Ian Shih, PhD, received two National Institutes of Health grants totaling $2.6 million for a new MRI instrument and to upgrade an existing MRI system.