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Baby Brain Development Study

October 31, 2019
Help us learn how baby brain and behavior develop during the first year of life. See study page here.

Fertility faculty part of NIH-funded study to improve IVF outcomes for women with endometriosis

October 28, 2019
Steven Young MD, PhD, and Mary Peavey MD, MSCI, both faculty in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, received a five-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of a multi-center, prospective trial aimed at improving...

Announcing a new Health Care clinic for reproductive women with kidney disease

October 27, 2019
This month, Dr. Christina Herrera of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Dr. Monica Reynolds of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at ’s School of Medicine opened a joint nephrology / maternal-fetal medicine clinic at Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Vilcom to provide evidence-based, patient-centered, multidisciplinary care to reproductive women...

Transitioning to Attending-Hood

October 23, 2019
The following post from Dr. Angelica Glover, assistant professor in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, appeared in the latest e-newsletter from the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine: Fall has finally arrived to most of the continental U.S. and, with it, a plethora of change – cooler weather, the colors of a...

New grant will ‘re-engineer postnatal care’ to improve maternal and infant outcomes

October 17, 2019
  Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s Alison Stuebe, MD, MSc, and the Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Kristin Tully, PhD, in collaboration with partners at North Carolina State University and The Ohio State University, have received...

celebrates Women in Medicine

October 15, 2019
Wanda Nicholson, professor at OB-GYN and president of the Association of Professional Women in Medicine and Science helped organize the ’s 2019 Women in Medicine Conference on October 4, 2019, at the Carolina Inn. Each year, the event celebrates women in medicine at and...

Honoring Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle and Recovery Role Model Dawn Haywood for their support of Horizons

October 11, 2019
In mid-September, Horizons honored two amazing women for their help and support of Horizons’ programs. The Horizons team voted and chose Mayor Lydia Lavelle to be the 2019 recipient of the Big Heart Award. This is an award established in honor of Horizons’ founding medical director and his wife,...

Chelsea G. receives a life-changing gift to complete her education and become economically self-sufficient

October 11, 2019
Chelsea G. has worked hard to overcome every obstacle life puts in her way. She grew up in Wake County and has called Chapel Hill home for many years. During her formative years she experienced many difficulties. She turned to drugs to help ease the pain of life and its...

Janet Thompson makes legacy gift to Horizons for women to pursue their education

October 11, 2019
Janet Thompson, otherwise known as Ack to her friends and family, made two extraordinary gifts to Horizons in memory of her late husband, Jim. When talking about her family and her beloved Jim, Ack’s eyes sparkle, and her entire face lights up.  Ack and “her honey” met on a...

Elizabeth Stringer promoted to professor

October 2, 2019
Elizabeth M. Stringer, MD, MSc, a maternal-fetal medicine expert with a long career of improving the lives of women across the world, has been promoted to full professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Stringer arrived at Carolina – by way of Lusaka, Zambia – in 2012 and joined...