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Dr. Bluth Research by Karen Bluth, PhD, an instructor in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation’s Program on Integrative Medicine, is being featured in several mainstream magazines and online blogs. Dr. Bluth is co-investigator of a grant from the The John Rex Endowment to evaluate the feasibility of implementing two evidence-based mindfulness...

Dr. Bockenek ºÚÁÏÍø Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation’s Research Day took place on Thursday, June 16th in the Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB). William Bockenek, MD, Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, gave the Patricia C. Gregory, MD Memorial Lecture. Dr. Bockenek’s lecture, “Achieving the...

Congratulations to Dr. Lambertus! Dr. Lambertus ºÚÁÏÍø PM&R Resident Brittany Lambertus, MD, has been selected as the 2016 recipient for the ºÚÁÏÍø Internal Medicine Department’s James A. Bryan Award. The James A. Bryan Award is given to residents who demonstrate excellence in ambulatory general internal medicine. Their performance embodies the...

Joshua Alexander, MD, has been awarded a 2016 ºÚÁÏÍø Health Care and Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence. The award recognizes “leadership in helping to create an exceptional patient experience at ºÚÁÏÍø Health Care,” notes Gary L. Park, president of ºÚÁÏÍø Hospitals. A remarkable 100% of Dr. Alexander’s patients...

Kaye Gooch, Executive VP, National MS Society Greater Carolinas Chapter, presents the award to Diane Meyer, PT, MSCS, of ºÚÁÏÍø Health Care’s Center for Rehabilitation Care. The ºÚÁÏÍø Health Care Center for Rehabilitation Care was presented with a certificate recognizing its new designation as a “Partners in MS Care –...

Dr. Susan Gaylord The Program on Integrative Medicine (PIM) in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the ºÚÁÏÍø-Chapel Hill School of Medicine has been awarded $109,998 to evaluate the feasibility of implementing two evidence-based mindfulness programs, in partnership with Southeast Raleigh Assembly (SERA), to reduce violence, improve academic...

Congratulations to the following faculty at ºÚÁÏÍø Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation who made the list of Best Doctors in America® for 2015-2016! Joshua J. Alexander, MD Associate Professor James J. Hill III, MD, MPH Associate Professor Michael Y. Lee, MD, MHA Professor and Chair Only five percent of doctors in...

“What I have grown to recognize about myself is that I spend a great deal of time taking care of everyone…This class…taught me about my origin and my environment, and the role it all played in how I have learned to survive and cope with life. I feel better about...

ºÚÁÏÍø Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation’s outpatient clinic at the Center for Rehabilitation Care (CRC) recently won an award for superlative and consistent patient satisfaction. The Exceptional Patient Services Awards recognized clinics showing high patient satisfaction for all four quarters in fiscal year 2015, according to the Press Ganey Satisfaction Survey....

Thirteen months ago, incoming Carolina freshman Colin Thompson was on his way home to Houston from summer camp when he was involved in a life-threatening accident and air-lifted to an Austin hospital. Today, he’s an outpatient at the ºÚÁÏÍø Center for Rehabilitation Care, treated by physiatrists such as William Filer,...