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Building Community with Department Houses

January 6, 2025
“Teammates in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology took a creative approach to building in-person community in the post-pandemic virtual work environment. In the fall, OBGYN launched a department house system similar to those in the television series Game of Thrones and the houses in the Hogwarts School of...

Third Annual Clarke-Pearson Lectureship to Highlight Uncommon Cancers

September 19, 2024
The Third Annual Clarke-Pearson Lectureship is set for October 16, 2024, from 7 AM to 8 AM EST, and will be held virtually via Zoom. After last year’s success with over 200 attendees from across the country, this year’s event will feature Dr. Amanda Nickles Fader, a Professor of Gynecology,...

Dr. Genevieve Neal-Perry accepts Society for Reproductive Investigation’ most prestigious annual award 

March 28, 2024
  OBGYN Department of Chair, Dr. Genevieve Neal-Perry accepted the Mentorship Award from SRI, Society for Reproductive Investigation, on March 15, 2024, at the 71st Annual Scientific Meeting in Vancouver, Canada. The award was established in 2003 to annually recognize mentoring within the scientific community, with special emphasis on...

New NIH Funded Endometriosis Research Center To Be Led by Steven Young, MD, PhD

September 20, 2021
has been awarded one of only two NIH-funded center grants (P01 mechanism) to establish an Endometriosis Research Center. The Center will be led by Steven Young, MD, PhD, a professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Endometriosis is a common...

Food Allergy and Eczema Observational Study

August 27, 2021
Food Allergy & Eczema Observational Study: Help us learn more about what factors put babies and toddlers at higher risk for developing food allergies and eczema. This is an observational research study, which means we will follow you and your child from birth to 3 years to learn more about...

Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV

February 24, 2021
New Rochelle, NY, February 17, 2021—Nearly half (46.7%) of women in the U.S. at risk for HIV have been incarcerated, according to a new study. The study is published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Women’s Health. Click here to read the article now. The incarceration rate for women at risk for HIV was...

Gates Foundation awards Global Women’s Health $6.2 million to study pregnancy outcomes in Zambia

December 10, 2020
Global Women’s Health has received two new grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for work on pregnancy outcomes in Zambia. The first grant funds the “Multi-omics for Mother and Infants (MOMI) Consortium,” which seeks to identify new predictive biomarkers for preterm birth, preeclampsia, stillbirth and fetal growth restriction....

Knittel appointed as Women’s Reproductive Health Research Scholar

December 2, 2020
The Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program is pleased to announce that Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD, FACOG, has been appointed as a WRHR Scholar effective December 1, 2020. Dr. Knittel completed her research fellowship in the Division of General Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2018 and was subsequently...

CenteringPregnancy® at : Group 48 Finds Community through a Pandemic

October 7, 2020
by Shannon Keller, CNM As my excitement to meet new families and see their friendships begin with the start of a new CenteringPregnancy® group rose, a new threat to this connection— COVID-19—hit the world.  At , we did not cancel our centering groups. Instead we transitioned to  a virtual social...

New research could help caregivers identify exclusive breastfeeding challenges in the first week of life

March 11, 2020
From the Gillings School of Global Public Health More women than ever are choosing to breastfeed with widespread recognition of the benefits. Breastfeeding is recommended as the sole source of nutrition for the first six months in a child’s life, followed by continued breastfeeding with the addition of nutritious...

New positions open at Horizons Program

February 27, 2020
The Horizons Program has a number of new positions open: Residential Advisor (temporary) Early Childhood Development Practitioner Social Work Practitioner The Horizons Program (part of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at -Chapel Hill) is a substance use disorder treatment program for pregnant and/or parenting women and their...