Student: Ongeri Ayako
Ongeri Joseph Ayako, second-year medical student at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, believes in balance in his approach to becoming a doctor and his family life. Ayako, originally...
Medical Archives
Rural Health Symposium addresses rural health issues including opioids, poverty
When Dr. Venus Evans-Winters was growing up on the south side of Chicago, stress made her grind her teeth – but luckily the problem was caught by good dental care....
CORE VALUES
Building Capacity for Underserved Areas Twenty-one students who completed the Public Fellows Internship program, funded by the State Employees’ Credit Union Foundation, were honored for their service in rural communities...
Looking to lose weight? New ECU study suggests that intensive behavioral therapy can help.
A new study from ECU’s College of Allied Health Sciences and Brody School of Medicine recently highlighted by CNN demonstrated that intensive behavioral therapy provided by registered dietitians can help...
CORONAVIRUS EXPLAINED
ECU Experts ECU’s Division of Health Sciences has experts available to answer questions related to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other infectious diseases. Infectious diseases: Paul Cook, MD, chief of Brody’s...
RESEARCHING MUSCLE FUNCTION
East Carolina University researchers – in collaboration with researchers from Florida State University and the University of Hannover, Germany – discovered that a small region in the cardiac protein, troponin...
MASTER EDUCATORS
A trio of physicians - Drs. Adam Kansagor, Susan Schmidt and Diane Semer - were recently named master educators by the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. The...
EXPLORING MEDICAL CAREERS
During conversations about the future, Delisa Davis’s mother always reminds her to step into new experiences ready to take advantage of opportunity. That’s why when Davis learned about the Rise...
Student: Nakaya Melvin
East Carolina University student Nakaya Melvin is always up for a challenge. Melvin, a senior from Fayetteville, is an Honors College student double majoring in public health studies and chemistry....
ECU faculty member awarded national ‘Outstanding Mentor of the Year’ honor
Dr. Danielle Walsh, associate professor of surgery at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine and the director of the surgery residency program at ECU and Vidant Medical Center, was recently awarded...