Awards & Achievements

Congratulations to Jen McEntee (PGY2, MedPeds), who was elected President of the National Med-Peds Residency Association.

Congratulations to Lisa Rose-Jones (PYG3, Medicine) for being recognized as an outstanding teacher by the MS3 class.

Congratulations to Loren Robinson (PGY1, MedPeds), who will be receiving the National Medical Association's Billie Wright Adams young pediatrician award.

Congratulations to Jen McEntee (PGY2, MedPeds), who was elected as Secretary of the Housestaff Council.

Thanks to all the residents who participated in our 2009 Medicine Research Day, and congratulations to our winners of the outstanding poster presentations, Alisa Alker (PGY1) and Erika Hamilton (PGY2).  Here is the link to all the abstracts. 

The 2008-2009 Residency Awards Ceremony was held on Tuesday, May 19. Congratulations to all our award winners, listed below. 

Congratulations to Dr. Andy Bomback on the publication of his first book You're Too Wonderful to Die. It's a fiction novel about a UNC Intensivist who forms a special bond with a CF patient awaiting a transplant. You can buy it online at amazon.com or locally at Internationlist Books or Market Street Books.

Congratulations to Cheryl Davis and others on her recent publication in American Journal of Cardiology!

Congratulations to Andy Bomback on his recent publication! Click here to read about Snakes and ACE Inhibitors.

John Vavalle and others recently published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, click for link. Congratulations, John!

Congratulations to Tyler Buckner (PGY-3) on being elected president of the UNC Housestaff Council for 2007-08!

Congrats to residents who have posters accepted to 2007 NC ACP Scientific Meeting: Bridger Clarke, Carrie Cox, Amber Khanna, Jake Marais, Sid Shah, Rebecca Vento, Gretchen Shaughnessy.

Harriet Purves Burns has published What North Carolinians Can Expect from the Healthcare System: Eleven Things Learned During a "Special" Month of Residency Training. in NC Medical Journal Sept/Oct 2006.

Eric Edwards (PGY-2) has published "Lithium Treatment Prevents Neurocognitive Deficit Resulting from Cranial Irradiation" in Cancer Research. Congratulations Eric!

Sachin Patel's (PGY-2) poem "Call Room" has been published in an anthology called Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience, and will be available November 2007 at Barnes & Noble and other retail bookstores.

Bridger Clarke's (PGY-1) abstract: Treatment of Biliary Strictures Secondary to Chronic Pancreatitis: Comparison of Temporarily Placed Covered Self Expandable Metal Stents (CSEMS) vs. Plastic Stents was accepted for presentation at the 2006 American College of Gastroenterology National Conference.

Morgan McDonald (PGY-4, Med-Peds) was elected President of the 2006-2007 UNC Housestaff Council

Dick Wardrop (M-P PGY-5, Medicine Chief) has a paper in the upcoming issue of Gene Therapy on preventing the development of inhibitor antibodies in hemophiliac mice.

Dick Wardrop presented in San Francisco at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Congress in January, 2006. Topic: "Risk factors for development of nosocomial infection in pediatric intensive care".

Nate Lambert (PGY-4, Medicine Chief), Joe Eron and others published a case report in the June 20, 2006 Annals of Internal Medicine titled "Chagasic encephalitis as the initial manifestation of AIDS". PMID# 16785485

Phuong Doan (PGY-4, Medicine Chief) and Evan Dellon published a case report on chronic Budd-Chiari syndrome in a March, 2006 issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. PMID# 16527683

Andy Bomback's (PGY-3, Medicine) piece titled "Errands" was published in the Feb 15, 2006 issue of JAMA. PMID# 16478890

Andy Bomback's piece titled "The physical exam and the sense of smell" was published in the Jan 26, 2006 issue of NEJM. PMID#16436763

John Vavalle (PGY-3, Medicine) presented a poster titled " Diabetic Muscle Infarction: An Often Missed Complication of Diabetes" at the North Carolina ACP conference Feb, 2006

Sid Shah (PGY-3, Medicine) and Holly Humphrey (PGY-2, Medicine) presented a poster titled "Tale of a Broken Heart: Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy" at the North Carolina ACP conference in Feb, 2006

Sid Shah and others presented a poster at the National ACP conference in April, 2005 titled "What Good are the Guidelines? Are Patients with LVSD Receiving Proper Management?"

Cheryl Lowry (PGY-2, Medicine) presented a poster titled "Decreased Exercise Tolerance in Patients with Previously Undiagnosed Diastolic Dysfunction" at the AHA Scientific Sessions in November 2005.

The Carolina Companion - a book of evidence based internal medicine and pediatrics case reports - is the brainchild of Dick Wardrop and Allen Liles. Medicine and pediatrics residents are authoring individual chapters based on real cases taken from the UNC wards.