Health Sciences Archives

Dec 15, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU dental students, providers reflect on providing oral health care to veterans

The ECU School of Dental Medicine provided dental care for dozens of veterans last month during the school’s annual ECU Smiles for Veterans program at its community service learning center...

Dec 14, 2020
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

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...

Dec 14, 2020
  • Erin Ward

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SCHOLARSHIPS

We fill our days with regular activities — we get dressed, eat breakfast, brush our teeth, text a friend, drive the car, check email — often without having to put...

Dec 11, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

GROWING SOLUTIONS

In a garden that grows upon a ribbon of old family farmland in the mountains of Ashe County, dreams are harvested alongside vegetables. The garden is a vision nurtured by...

Dec 10, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

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...

Dec 10, 2020
  • Natalie Sayewich

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...

Dec 03, 2020
  • ECU News Services

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...

Dec 01, 2020
  • Ken Buday

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...

Grad Profile: Darren Sanders
Nov 30, 2020
  • Lacey L. Gray

ASPIRING FAMILY PHYSICIAN

East Carolina University senior biology major Darren Sanders aspires to become a family medical doctor and help the underserved populations of North Carolina. Originally from Charlotte, Sanders said his family...

Fall 2020 Grad Profiles
Nov 25, 2020
  • ECU News Services

FULL SPEED AHEAD

East Carolina University’s graduating class of fall 2020 includes more than 2,000 students who will turn their tassels this week (from home — the Friday, Dec. 4 ceremony is virtual...