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Camilia Kamoun, MD, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Endocrinology, was recently awarded a grant by the Greenwall Foundation through its Making a Difference Program, in support of her project, "Moving Away from Race-Ethnicity Based Clinical Care of Early Female Puberty Towards Race and Ethnicity Conscious Puberty Justice". Congratulations Camilia!

Dr. Kenya McNeal-Trice will be serving as an American Pediatric Society (APS) representative to the AMSPDC Pediatrics Workforce Initiative for a  three-year term, beginning June 1, 2024.

Samantha Morrissey, MD, PhD, a ºÚÁÏÍø Med-Peds resident, has been honored with the prestigious Bondurant-Ehringhaus Award for her groundbreaking research conducted at the ºÚÁÏÍø McAllister Heart Institute under the guidance of Brian Jensen, MD, a professor of medicine in the division of cardiology.

At PAS 2024, the NEC Society awarded the Early Career Research Award to Lauren Frazer, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Congratulations!

The Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (CASP) honored three collaborators with Super Steward Awards. The award recipients were Jenny Boyd, MD; Joseph Stromberg, MD; and David J. Weber, MD, MPH. CASP created the awards in 2022 to recognize colleagues’ efforts to champion stewardship in their settings.

We are excited to recognize our faculty and trainees for their recent Academy of Educator (AOE) accomplishments.  We are so grateful for their enthusiasm, dedication, and talents as ºÚÁÏÍø AOE educators. Founded in 2006, the Academy of Educators is designed to emphasize teaching and support faculty development both in Chapel...

Laura Cannon, Assistant Professor in Rheumatology, was accepted to the 2024-2025 NC TraCS Clinical Trialist Training Program. The Clinical Trialist Training Program (CTTP) is a NC TraCS initiative that provides didactic and experiential training that fosters the development of faculty who are interested in being new site investigators for multicenter...

Dr. Brittany Raffa, Assistant Professor in General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, has been named to the School of Medicine's Physician Scientist Training Program. Congratulations!

Afsaneh Pirzadeh, MD, Associate Professor in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, has had her proposal accepted to implement a standardized care pathway for pediatric patient falling within the defined criteria for acute stroke has been selected for support through the IHQI Improvement Scholars Program for the period October 1, 2024 –...