Medical Archives

Apr 10, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Graduate student earns ECU’s first Schweitzer Fellowship in public health

Graduate student Gabriel Beattie-Sergio has earned ECU’s first-ever Schweitzer Fellowship in public health, to create and sustain a project aimed at determining and eliminating different factors that contribute to childhood...

Apr 03, 2018
  • Angela Todd

IMPROVING QUALITY OF CARE

A surgical oncologist at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine was recently awarded a grant aimed at improving the care provided to breast cancer patients across the region. Dr. Jan Wong...

Research by Dr. Jitka Virag, an associate professor in the Department of Physiology at the Brody School of Medicine at ECU.
Apr 02, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

ECU WINS NATIONAL COMPETITION

In a nationwide contest searching for the “best innovations in science and medicine” – out of a field of more than 64 prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale and MIT...

Officials from the American Medical Association visited ECU’s Brody School of Medicine on March 29, 2018. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 02, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

BRODY RECEIVES NATIONAL PRAISE

In 2013, 80 percent of the nation’s medical schools applied for grant funding through the American Medical Association’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative. East Carolina University’s Brody School of...

Mar 29, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Brody School of Medicine names vice dean of operations

East Carolina University (ECU) has named a new vice dean of operations for the Brody School of Medicine. Dr. Peter Schmidt will begin serving as Brody’s second in command on...

ECU’s TEDI BEAR Child Advocacy Center recently received a $1.2 million grant to expand their services.
Mar 28, 2018
  • Angela Todd

BEAR HUGS

East Carolina University’s TEDI BEAR Child Advocacy Center was recently awarded a landmark $1.2 million grant to further its efforts in aiding adolescent victims of abuse. The grant comes from...

Mar 23, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

BUILDING HEALTHIER FAMILIES

Annie Andrews’s doctor said she needed to lose weight, but that wasn’t a simple request for the Parmele resident. “Some of the ingredients I needed (for healthier recipes), I couldn’t...

Mar 23, 2018
  • ECU News Services

'Death and Diversity in Civil War Medicine' explains the disparity of mortality

The American Civil War occurred during a time when medicine was just beginning to make great strides. Contemporary doctors did not fully understand the origin of disease, the importance of hygiene,...

Mar 22, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Dean emeritus receives medal for contributions to medical profession

Dr. Paul Cunningham, dean emeritus of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, was recently honored in New York City for his contributions to the medical profession and...

Dr. Phil Boyer speaks to the Brody School of Medicine Class of 2018.
Mar 19, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

STRING OF PEARLS

Each year, on the eve of finding out where they matched for their residency training, graduating medical students at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine select a group of their professors...