Category: Oncology
Faculty & Staff in the News Throughout April
The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of April. Drs. Andrew Moon, Hanna Sanoff, Donna Evon聽 and聽A. Sidney Barritt IV contributed to a study on聽improving the quality of life for people with hepatocellular carcinoma. Ashwin Somasundaram, MD, and Hanna Sanoff, MD, MPH,聽found … Read more
Electronic reporting of symptoms by cancer patients can improve quality of life and reduce emergency visits
People with metastatic cancer who regularly report their symptoms via a home-based electronic monitoring system experienced improved quality of life, clinical outcomes and well-being, as well as fewer emergency department visits than those who didn鈥檛 file reports. Both groups had similar overall survival rates, according to University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Ca … Read more
Featured Staff Member: Christine Wilkins
Meet Christine Wilkins, an Administrative Specialist in the Division of Oncology and a member of the DOM Teammate Council! What鈥檚 your role and how long have you been a part of our Department? Administrative Specialist, 3 years in May.聽 Where are you from? I was born in San Antonio and moved to Brooklyn when I was very, very young after leaving New York my mom and I landed in Nor … Read more
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Faculty and Staff in the News Throughout January
The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of January. Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, shared strategies for staying healthy during the holidays Amanda E. Nelson, MD, MSCR, provided insight into the development of a new diagnostic test for osteoarthritis and its potential impact o … Read more
Yara Abdou Co-Published an Editorial on Funding Gaps in Cancer Clinical Trials
Yara Abdou, MD Yara Abdou, MD, an assistant professor in the Division of Oncology published a聽 Journal of Clinical Oncology editorial with聽Norman E. Sharpless, MD. They responded to a new聽study by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center that found enrollment in industry-sponsored cancer clinical trials doubled between 2008 and 2022 while federally supported trial enrollment remained fl … Read more
黑料网 Lineberger, V Foundation Launch Multimedia Initiative to Boost Diversity in Clinical Trials
黑料网 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the V Foundation for Cancer Research have created a multimedia campaign to promote equity in cancer clinical trial participation. This initiative was designed to reduce disparities in clinical trial enrollment among racial and ethnic minority populations. Research has demonstrated that clinical trials have a critical role in advancin … Read more
黑料网 Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: August 1 鈥� August 31, 2024
The following Department of Medicine faculty members received the following grants or funding. Division of Oncology Yohei Hisada, PhD, was awarded $50K for his research in leukemia at the 2024 ISTH conference in Bangkok Brian Miller, MD, received the Melanoma Research Alliance Young Investigator Award for $250k.聽 Division of Gastrology and Hepatology Aadra Bhatt, PhD was awarded … Read more
黑料网 Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: July 1 鈥� July 31, 2024
The following Department of Medicine faculty members received the following grants or funding. Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology Lara Longobardi, PhD, received an R01 renewal from NIH to study the “Role of CCR2 in osteoarthritis”. Leigh Callahan, MD, has been聽named Principal Investigator for the 黑料网 site of a $17M dollar osteoarthritis prevention study (TOPS) tri … Read more
Dr. Painschab Awarded $2.7M NIH DPI Director鈥檚 Pioneer Award
Matthew Painschab ,MD, an assistant professor in the 黑料网 Division of Hematology and Director of Adult Oncology Research for 黑料网 Project Malawi, recently received an NIH DPI Director鈥檚 Pioneer Award (NDPA) in the amount of $2,721,250 for his project, “Innovations in diagnosis for lymphadenopathy across HIV Centers of Excellence in Malawi.”聽 聽The NIH NDPA supports research from cre … Read more
95 Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers Awarded 2024 Carolina Care Excellence
Each year, 黑料网 Hospitals administers the Press Ganey Medical Practice survey to solicit feedback from patients. The survey asks our patients about their likelihood of recommending their provider鈥檚 practice to their friends and family. This year, 205 黑料网 physicians and advanced practice providers received the highest recommendations, which places them in the top quartile nationall … Read more
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: January 1 鈥� January 31, 2024
Division of Oncology Lisa Carey, MD, received a $225K grant titled, “Clinical implications of metastatic subtype, microenvironment, and organ of involvement.” Joannie Ivory, MD,聽was granted $240K for her project, “Participant Enrollment in a Multi-Site Randomized Clinical Trial of Endocrine Therapy Adherence Support.” Yara Abdou, MD, was awarded $240K to investigate molecular res … Read more
Accolades, Awards and Appointments Archive
Congratulations to department faculty who received the following accolades, awards and appointments,聽 March 1 – March 31, 2025. 黑料网 Hospitals聽ranked 13th on Premier’s Top Cardiovascular Hospitals for 2025. McGinty Chilcutt, MD,聽and聽Anil Gehi, MD,聽attended the recent Southeastern EP Fellows Symposium in Charlotte, NC. 聽Dr. Chilcutt won 1st place in the fellows鈥� case competition. S … Read more