Medical Archives

Feb 28, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU Physicians earns Gold Status from American Heart Association

ECU Physicians has been honored for its dedication to improving patients’ blood pressures. The practice’s Adult Medicine and Pediatrics Clinic recently earned a Gold Status designation from the Target: BP...

Feb 22, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU Physicians, UnitedHealthcare announce new network relationship

ECU Physicians and UnitedHealthcare have established a new network relationship, giving people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare employer and individual plans greater access to ECU Physicians. The new relationship provides plan participants...

Feb 07, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU physician receives national service award

A physician at the ECU Brody School of Medicine has received the 2018 Outstanding Service Award from the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry (AMP). Dr. Michael Lang, clinical associate professor...

Dr. Jitka Virag's research received nationwide recognition last year when it was selected as the winner of the STAT Madness contest which searches for the “best innovations in science and medicine.”
Feb 05, 2019
  • ECU News Services

DR. JITKA VIRAG

Imagine that someone suffering from a heart attack could have their life saved by the administration of a protein instead of having to undergo a stent placement or heart transplant...

Feb 05, 2019
  • ECU News Services

CHANGING LIVES THROUGH RESEARCH

East Carolina University researchers and inventors will be recognized Tuesday evening, Feb. 5, at the university’s third annual Research and Scholarship Awards. The awards will honor ECU faculty with the...

Dr. Mark Williams shares a hug with a friend after a ceremony for the establishment of the Travis and Cassandra Burt Professorship in Cardiovascular Sciences at the ECHI, as Dr. Randolph Chitwood, left, the founder and former head of ECHI, looks on. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Jan 31, 2019
  • Erin Ward

HEARTFELT DONATION

When Travis Burt felt intense pain shoot down his left arm and an acrid taste fill his mouth, he knew something was wrong. His normally tanned face became deeply flushed...

Jan 31, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Bright named associate dean for ECU Brody School of Medicine admissions

Cedric M. Bright, associate dean for inclusive excellence at the UNC School of Medicine, has been named associate dean for admissions for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina...

Jan 24, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU surgeon inducted into prestigious Academy of Master Surgeon Educators

Dr. Carl E. Haisch, a transplant surgeon and professor at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, recently became one of 91 esteemed international surgeons to be admitted...

Jan 23, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU, Eastern AHEC host Rural Health Symposium

Developing community relationships to improve the health of the region was a major direction of the second annual Rural Health Symposium hosted by the Brody School of Medicine at East...

Jan 10, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

RESEARCHING HEALTH EFFECTS OF PFAS

A professor at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine has received state and federal funding to study the health effects of potentially harmful chemical compounds that were found in North Carolina...