Jul

National Parkinson Foundation designates UNC as ‘Center of Excellence’

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The National Parkinson Foundation has designated the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an NPF Center of Excellence.

UNC Hospitals again ranked among nation’s best medical centers by U.S. News & World Report magazine

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Seven medical specialties offered at the University of North Carolina Hospitals rank among the top 50 programs of their kind nationwide, reports the July 12 issue of U.S. News & World Report.

UNC research accelerates discovery of novel gene function

CHAPEL HILL -- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have developed a new technique for rapidly identifying the functions of genes.

UNC emergency medicine physician on a mission to save lives in Panama

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – In a tiny village near the border of Panama and Costa Rica, a community waits for a group known as United Methodist Volunteers in Mission.

Study examines residency’s influence in doctors’ decisions to use smoking cessation methods

CHAPEL HILL -- Primary-care doctors who use smoking cessation methods while training as residents are twice as likely to continue doing so in their medical practice more than eight years later, new research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows.

79 UNC physicians named ‘state’s best doctors’ by Business North Carolina

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Seventy-nine UNC physicians are identified as among the state’s best doctors in the July 2004 issue of Business North Carolina magazine.

Funding approved for new cancer hospital at UNC

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The N.C. General Assembly has approved $180 million in funding for a new cancer hospital to be built by the University of North Carolina Health Care System.

W. Alan Stewart appointed chief financial officer for UNC Health Care

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Dr. William L. Roper, dean of the UNC School of Medicine and CEO of the UNC Health Care System, has appointed W. Alan Stewart chief financial officer for UNC Health Care.

David Strong named president of Rex Healthcare

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – David W. Strong, chief operating officer of Mercy Health Center in Oklahoma City, Okla., has been named president of Rex Healthcare in Raleigh.

UNC physician named Emergency Physician of the Year

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Cherri D. Hobgood, MD, FACEP, assistant professor and director of education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine has been named 2004 Emergency Physician of the Year by the North Carolina College of Emergency Physicians (NCCEP).

UNC researchers awarded $8.65 million from National Institute on Aging

CHAPEL HILL -- A team of scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has been awarded a federal grant of $8.65 million to investigate the molecular basis of blood vessel aging and its role in the development of vascular disease, including heart attack.

Bacon receives Hospital Association’s Meritorious Service Award

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Thomas Bacon, DrPH, program director of the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) program, has received the 2004 Meritorious Service Award from the North Carolina Hospital Association (NCHA).

Study reveals surprising ‘remodeling’ property of gene regulation process

CHAPEL HILL -- Much like moving furniture around to create more space, cells dramatically rearrange their entire genome in order to allow the right genes to be turned on at the right time, new research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows.