Allied Health Archives

Dec 19, 2022
  • Matt Smith

ECU 2022: YEAR IN REVIEW

If one word sums up Pirate Nation in 2022, it's "renewal." Pirates returned to campus with a rejuvenated sense of hope in response to COVID-19. Chancellor Philip Rogers was officially...

Almost 2,000 graduates were recognized at East Carolina University’s fall 2022 commencement ceremony in Minges Coliseum.
Dec 16, 2022
  • ECU News Services

AUDACITY TO ASPIRE

Nearly 2,000 East Carolina University graduates turned their tassels in Minges Coliseum on Friday, celebrating fall commencement 2022 along with their families, friends, and university faculty, staff and administrators. Chancellor...

Dec 13, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

Nursing researcher breaks communication barriers with HIV-positive women

One thread that East Carolina University health sciences researchers keep pulling at to unravel the heavy burden of chronic disease in eastern North Carolina is disconnectedness. Many of the people...

Nov 30, 2022
  • Rob Spahr

ECU’s Laupus Library celebrates more than 120 health sciences authors

More than 120 authors from across East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus were honored during Laupus Health Sciences Library’s 17th annual Health Sciences Author Recognition Awards on Nov. 8. The...

Nursing student James Orefice, left, physician assistant student Bree Steele and medical student Arden Vessie attend to a victim during a mock disaster drill.
Nov 28, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

EMERGENCY TRAINING

The bleeding mannequins, the cries of ‘help me, help me,’ and the eyeball drooping from an actor’s face? Not real. But the learning was. On a beatific fall day, more...

A van from ECU’s Brody School of Medicine travels through rural eastern North Carolina enroute to providing free health screenings and COVID-19 vaccines to patients in underserved communities.
Nov 17, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel
  • ECU Health News
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda
  • Spaine Stephens

RURAL HEALTH DAY 2022

Beginning in 2010, organizations across the United States have reserved the third Thursday in November to celebrate National Rural Health Day and highlight unique challenges residents of rural communities face...

College of Nursing Assistant Professor Dr. Courtney Caiola leads research into the HIV epidemic in eastern North Carolina.
Nov 17, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

RURAL RESEARCH

Doctors, nurses, therapists — none can do their clinical jobs without facts: proof, by way of blood tests, X-rays and hands-on observations in order to determine a clear path forward...

Dr. Amy White-Jones, one of the first residents in Brody and ECU Health’s Rural Family Medicine Residency program, examines a patient at Goshen Medical Center in Beulaville.
Nov 17, 2022
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

RURAL HEALTH EDUCATION

The college and schools on East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus share a mission produce top-notch health care professionals to serve North Carolina. A key component of that commitment is...

Dr. Leigh Atherton, College of Allied Health Sciences associate professor, leads Engage Eastern North Carolina with assistance from doctoral student Sara Coltrain.
Nov 09, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

RECOVERY GRANT

Dr. Leigh Atherton, an associate professor in East Carolina University’s College of Allied Health Sciences, has a simple-sounding proposition — engage individuals who are being tested for HIV to gauge...

Nov 09, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU Allied Health students awarded prestigious national scholarships

The East Carolina University College of Allied Health Sciences is famous for its selectiveness — last year about 600 potential students applied for just 36 spots in the school’s physician’s...