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OB-GYN faculty are honored with 2019 Carolina Care Excellence Awards

June 3, 2019
This year 18 providers from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology have received the 2019 Health Care and Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence for creating exceptional experience for patients. Across Health Care, 189 providers total received the 2019 award. View all Health Care...

Clarke-Pearson honored with Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Education

May 28, 2019
Daniel Clarke-Pearson, MD, Robert A. Ross Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Education from the Academy of Educators at the . This School confers this award annually on an exceptional member...

-Chapel Hill awarded $14 million to make childbirth safer for mothers and infants

May 2, 2019
(Chapel Hill, N.C. – May 2, 2019) – A team of clinical researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received $14 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct two studies aimed at improving pregnancy outcomes in the world’s poorest countries. An interdisciplinary team...

OB-GYN resident Dr. Sharon Vaz wins best presentation at state OB-GYN meeting

April 9, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Sharon Vaz, a resident in the OB-GYN Class of 2019, for winning Best Resident Presentation at this year’s North Carolina OBGYN Society meeting. Vaz was honored for her presentation entitled, “The Breaking Point: Delayed vs Early Amniotomy in Labor Induction.” Vaz’s study was a retrospective cohort...

Mersereau to lead Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility

April 8, 2019
Dr. Jennifer Mersereau will become the next chief of OB-GYN’s Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) on May 1, 2019. The division’s longtime chief Dr. Marc Fritz has decided to step down after 26 years and will continue as a fulltime clinician and as practice director for Fertility....

Berreth receives nursing award from the School of Medicine

April 4, 2019
Meg Berreth, MSN, CNM, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Division of Midwifery, is one of eight nurses who were honored April 3 at the 2019 School of Medicine Nursing Recognition Awards. Each year the medical school and its physicians recognize outstanding achievement by nursing professionals as a...

New grant allows Vora to collaborate with Duke to identify novel genes critical to human brain development

April 2, 2019
Dr. Neeta Vora, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and Dr. Erica Davis at the Duke University Center for Human Disease Modeling have been awarded an exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.  Their research was initially funded by...

Dr. Erin Carey’s gynecologic pain project wins $50,000 innovation award

March 29, 2019
Erin Carey, MD, director of the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at OB-GYN, is principle investigator for a project on gynecologic pain that has received a 2019 Innovation Pilot Award of $50,000 from the School of Medicine. Her co-principle investigator is Dr. Rahima Benhabbour of The Department of...

Announcing the Class of 2023

March 29, 2019
’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has announced its residency Class of 2023, who found out they had matched with our department on March 15, 2019. They come from as far as Kansas and as close as our own Our incoming residents are: Jenna Adams –...

Gynecologic Oncology faculty have large presentation presence at SGO meeting

March 26, 2019
Many members of the Gynecologic Oncology faculty presented at Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, March 16-19, 2019. This was SGO’s 50th meeting on women’s cancers. To see a list of faculty and their posters and presentations, view the list here.

Where she needed to be

March 25, 2019
When University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physician and researcher Elizabeth Stringer, M.D., M.Sc., finished her OB-GYN residency in 2001, she and her husband, Jeff, had one young child and another on the way, and were considering the next steps in their careers and lives. “We had both become...

‘I’ve learned recovery is possible.’

March 7, 2019
Samantha had “a million excuses” for why she didn’t want to come to the Horizons Program, she says. She had a family who needed her – a loving son, a dedicated husband who was her high-school sweetheart, and three dogs as beloved as her child. She was also embarrassed...