COVID-19 RESPONSE
East Carolina University researchers and medical professionals continue to work diligently on the prevention, detection, treatment and long-term impacts of the coronavirus. Dozens of extraordinary projects are underway on the...
Medical Archives
‘GAME CHANGER’
East Carolina University will test wastewater from residence halls this semester in an effort to detect coronavirus as early as possible to reduce transmission and avoid outbreaks where students live....
WHITE COAT DRIVE-THRU
People all over the world were required to adjust their plans and traditions during 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The nation’s medical students were not immune. First-year...
2020: YEAR IN REVIEW
Some may wish to pack the year 2020 and all of its contents into a box never to be seen again — no judgment here — but this year's 1,907...
State Attorney General selects ECU physician for 2020 Dogwood Award
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein recently honored an ECU physician for her devotion to caring for COVID-19 patients during the coronavirus pandemic. Each year, the attorney general presents Dogwood...
ECU holds inaugural healthcare-centric interprofessional case competition
The ECU Health Sciences Leadership Council created a new healthcare-centric interprofessional case competition held on Oct. 31, bringing together teams of health professions students from across multiple schools and programs...
ECU med students add health disparities certificate to service-learning track
Four students in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University are the first to earn a graduate certificate in ethnic and rural health disparities (ERHD) as part of...
IMPROVING DIABETES CARE
Dr. Shiv Patil, a family physician, diabetologist and faculty member at the ECU Brody School of Medicine, was named the recipient of the 2020 Health Care Provider Award from the...
FALL 2020 COMMENCEMENT — COLLEGE CELEBRATIONS
Graduates, parents, families and friends, please join us at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 4 for our virtual Fall 2020 Commencement Ceremony. Watch the ceremony live on the commencement website, or...
Faculty: Dr. Greg Kearney
A temporary job turned into a lifelong passion for public health for Dr. Greg Kearney, an associate professor in East Carolina University’s Department of Public Health in the Brody School...