Health Sciences Archives

Jul 02, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

Standardized patients continue helping ECU health sciences students learn despite COVID

For 15 years, Ann Flake has helped students across the East Carolina University Division of Health Sciences practice their clinical skills—and the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t changed that. Flake serves as...

Jul 01, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

POST-PANDEMIC CARE

Mental health care will become more critical during the COVID-19 pandemic and after it subsides, says one East Carolina University psychiatrist. Through the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program (NC-STeP) based...

Jun 29, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

Student: Jonathan Nowlin

Whenever Jonathan Nowlin is in Ross Hall, he knows he’s home. The second-year student in the ECU School of Dental Medicine doesn’t take for granted any of the time he...

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Jun 29, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Holly Wei

Dr. Holly Wei is a magician. And as an associate professor in East Carolina University’s College of Nursing, she is teaching her students to become magicians themselves. “When I was...

Jun 25, 2020
  • Natalie Sayewich

ADDRESSING NURSING SHORTAGE

An East Carolina University faculty member who helps Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students conceptualize and strategize their four-semester projects is now on the other side, working on her own...

Jun 24, 2020
  • Rich Klindworth

Talk Like a Pirate: As country reopens, COVID-19 cases rise

The majority of the United States has “reopened” following the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown. However, since Memorial Day weekend, COVID-19 cases have been on the rise. “The slope of the curve...

Jun 22, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

Study examines how LGBT communities view health risks

While a majority of LGBT members rate HIV and AIDS as the most serious health issues today, researchers at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

Jun 19, 2020
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

ECU medical students resume clinical rotations for the first time since COVID-19

Medical students at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine recently returned to clinical rotations for the first time since rotations were halted because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Third-and-fourth year...

Jun 19, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

GRANTING SMILES

The East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine has received a $3.1 million grant to enhance resident training in the care of patients with special needs in eastern North Carolina...

Jun 10, 2020
  • Natalie Sayewich

COVID-19 CLINICAL TRIAL

A new clinical trial headed by an East Carolina University ­­­­infectious disease specialist at Vidant Medical Center aims to prevent COVID-19 from causing the type of lung damage in patients...