Runge named cardiology editor of eMedicine

Feb. 27, 2007

Runge named cardiology editor of eMedicine

Dr. Marschall S. Runge, professor and chair of the department of medicine in the UNC School of Medicine and president of UNC Physicians, is the new editor of the cardiology section of eMedicine.
 
Launched in 1996, eMedicine is an online clinical knowledge database available to physicians and other healthcare professionals. Nearly 10,000 physician authors and editors contribute to the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, which contains articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders. The evidence-based content, updated regularly, provides the latest practice guidelines in 59 medical specialties.

Before coming to UNC in 2000, Runge held the John Sealy Distinguished Centennial Chair in Internal Medicine and was director of the Division of Cardiology and the Sealy Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

An honors graduate of Vanderbilt University with a bachelor’s degree in biology and a doctorate in molecular biology, Runge graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he was an intern and resident in internal medicine. He then completed a cardiology fellowship at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital and was a faculty member there prior to moving to Emory University as an associate professor of medicine in 1989.