Health Sciences Archives

David Murray, from left, Arvind Mallikarjunan, Valentine Okafor and Vaishnavi Siripurapu — all North Carolina residents — have been chosen for the Class of 2026 Brody Scholar and Brody Fellow award, valued at approximately $118,000.
Oct 26, 2022
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

BRODY SCHOLARS

Four students at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine have been awarded the university’s most prestigious medical scholarship. David Murray, Valentine Okafor, Arvind Mallikarjunan and Vaishnavi Siripurapu — all...

Oct 25, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

Albernaz Lecture speakers encourage medical students to embrace storytelling

The noon-time crowd that filed into the East Carolina Heart Institute Oct. 24 was fairly typical, headed to a catered luncheon to listen to a speaker talk about something related...

Oct 21, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

BIOENERGETICS TO BEDSIDE

A researcher in the Brody School of Medicine has joined forces with a Brody/ECU Health surgical oncologist on a two-year, $200,000 Department of Defense Melanoma Research Program funded project that...

Dr. Suzanne Lazorick, left, professor of pediatrics and chair of the Department of Public Health at the Brody School of Medicine, discusses rural adolescent activity research with Brody student Sina Kazemzadeh, center, and Brody alumna and ECU Health resident Dr. Chloe Opper.
Oct 13, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

LET’S GET PHYSICAL

A student in the Brody School of Medicine and a pediatric resident at ECU Health have published their research on physical activity in adolescents attending rural schools. Their findings suggest...

Oct 06, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

Sickle cell disease conference brings patients, providers together to learn, advocate

The inaugural Tate Holbrook Annual Sickle Cell Disease Update brought patients, providers and experts together Sept. 30 at the East Carolina Heart Institute to share information on history, treatments, impact...

Dr. Kelsey Fisher-Wellman, center, works with students during a lab at the East Carolina Heart Institute. Fisher-Wellman teaches a unique course where instead of final grades, students strive for journal publication.
Oct 06, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

STUDENT AUTHORSHIP

When Dr. Kelsey Fisher-Wellman began teaching students in his biochemistry lab at the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine he knew two things — he needed to be productive...

Physical Therapy student Junae Staples, and occupational therapy student Ayoola Ajani, in blue scrubs, work with a family during a student-run clinic for eastern North Carolina patients.
Sep 22, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

SERVICE CLINIC

Physical therapy students from East Carolina University’s College of Allied Health Sciences have been at the helm of a free, student-run clinic for several years, delivering quality health care to...

Markis’ Hamilton, an undergraduate student from Fayetteville State University, works in a hood in the East Carolina University Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building.
Sep 20, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

HEALTH PROMOTION GRANT

An East Carolina University and Fayetteville State University partnership has secured more than $1.3 million in grant funding from the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation to address regional public health needs....

Sep 20, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

Nursing students welcomed into profession with Lamp of Learning Ceremony

The East Carolina University College of Nursing’s Class of 2024 were formally welcomed as initiates into the nursing profession during a ceremony Sept. 8 where they were presented with Lamp...

Sep 16, 2022
  • Doug Boyd

ECU graduate wants to solve the mysteries of migraine headaches

It might start with an aura — a scintillating scotoma of zigzag lines, opaque circles, rings of colors. You might turn or blink, but it just gets worse. Then the...