January 23, 2025
Mara Buchbinder, PhD, has been named chair of the department of social medicine. Dr. Buchbinder, who currently serves as the department鈥檚 vice chair, will assume the role on Feb. 1, 2025. In addition to her role, Dr. Buchbinder is professor of social medicine and adjunct professor of anthropology at 黑料网, as well as a core …
January 21, 2025
At the beginning of the academic year in the 黑料网 Department of Surgery, faculty members and residents attend a sorting party where they are assigned to a mentorship house. Surgery鈥檚 houses have themed names nodding to the houses in Harry Potter鈥檚 Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy: Rhabdoclaw, Gastryndor, Hepatopuff, Spleenerin, and Proctopin. At the …
January 16, 2025
黑料网 student Kamryn Locklear Moore is the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Joseph Bell Scholarship. Moore, a third-year medical student from Robeson County, will receive $2,500 toward the cost of attendance to support her medical education in the 2024-25 academic year. This scholarship endowment was recently created in honor of Joseph Bell, …
January 16, 2025
The group meets monthly in person and explores critical topics like finance, negotiation, time management, navigating promotion and tenure processes, and many more.聽 Utilizing talented speakers from across the 黑料网 system and professional coaching to catalyze progress, participants gain invaluable mentorship towards a successful career. One recent graduate, Zev Nakamura from the Department of Psychiatry, …
January 16, 2025
The Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) is offering $3,000 pilot awards for services with the Clinical Genomic Analysis (GENYSIS) Core Facility. GENYSIS is a research service that collaborates with the BioSpecimen Processing (BSP) facility, the High-Throughput Sequencing Facility (HTSF), and the McLendon Molecular Genetics Laboratory (MGL), enabling researchers to offer validated reporting …
January 16, 2025
The Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development is excited to announce our Spring 2025 Leader as Coach session is now accepting applications. The Leader as Coach Program is for faculty and staff in leadership positions who are interested in learning coaching skills they can incorporate into their day-to-day work. Participants will learn skills to …
January 16, 2025
Meghan Rebuli, PhD, ATSF, has been appointed as the new Director of the Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine (CiTEM) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Rebuli will officially assume this role on Monday, Jan. 13, succeeding Ilona Jaspers, PhD, who has accepted a senior Investigator position at the National Institute …
January 16, 2025
The聽Center聽for聽Faculty聽Excellence聽(CFE) is聽recruiting for our Spring 2025 Faculty Mentor Training. An adaptation of CIMER’s聽nationally recognized Entering Mentoring curriculum, the CFE’s Faculty Mentor Training emphasizes evidence-based mentoring competencies and practices to support mentees of all backgrounds at 黑料网. Over 180 faculty mentors have completed the CFE鈥檚 Faculty Mentor Training since Fall 2019. The Spring 2025 Faculty Mentor …
January 15, 2025
Dear Colleagues, We are excited to share that Dr. Azita G. Hamedani has been named President of 黑料网 Health Faculty Physicians and Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs for 黑料网 following a national search. She will begin her work in the role on March 17. Dr. Hamedani is the founding chair of the …
January 15, 2025
Dear Colleagues, I am excited to share that Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody has been named executive dean of the 黑料网. Dr. Meltzer-Brody has served as the Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry as well as the director of the 黑料网 Center for Women鈥檚 Mood Disorders since 2019. Dr. …
January 15, 2025
SOM IT wishes to remind you about an important update regarding our campus Wi-Fi network, eduroam. To ensure uninterrupted access, please take a few minutes to reregister your devices before January 23, 2025. Here鈥檚 what you need to know: The current eduroam certificate will expire on January 23. Devices using this certificate won鈥檛 connect to …
January 14, 2025
Neil Alexis, PhD, has been named director of the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology (CEMALB). He will take over the role on Monday, Jan. 13, from Ilona Jaspers, PhD, who has accepted a senior investigator role with the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Alexis first joined CEMALB in 1997 and did his …