Health Sciences Archives

Mar 11, 2020
  • ECU News Services

ECU Alumni Association names 2020 Robert H. Wright Alumni Leadership Award recipients

The East Carolina University Alumni Association selected five student recipients of the 2020 Robert H. Wright Alumni Leadership Award. The award recognizes students’ academic achievement as well as commitment to...

Mar 09, 2020
  • Janiya Winchester

Student: Ongeri Ayako

Ongeri Joseph Ayako, second-year medical student at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, believes in balance in his approach to becoming a doctor and his family life. Ayako, originally...

Mar 06, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Rural Health Symposium addresses rural health issues including opioids, poverty

When Dr. Venus Evans-Winters was growing up on the south side of Chicago, stress made her grind her teeth – but luckily the problem was caught by good dental care....

Mar 05, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

CORE VALUES

Building Capacity for Underserved Areas Twenty-one students who completed the Public Fellows Internship program, funded by the State Employees’ Credit Union Foundation, were honored for their service in rural communities...

Mar 05, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Looking to lose weight? New ECU study suggests that intensive behavioral therapy can help.

A new study from ECU’s College of Allied Health Sciences and Brody School of Medicine recently highlighted by CNN demonstrated that intensive behavioral therapy provided by registered dietitians can help...

Mar 03, 2020
  • Rob Spahr

CORONAVIRUS EXPLAINED

ECU Experts ECU’s Division of Health Sciences has experts available to answer questions related to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other infectious diseases. Infectious diseases: Paul Cook, MD, chief of Brody’s...

Feb 26, 2020
  • Matt Smith

SERVICE THROUGH RESEARCH

East Carolina University researchers will be recognized Monday, March 2, at the university’s fourth annual Research and Scholarship Awards. The awards honor ECU faculty with the Lifetime Research & Creative...

Feb 26, 2020
  • Matt Smith

SOUNDS OF RESEARCH

The click-clack-tap of a keyboard’s plastic keys fills the room in East Carolina University’s Auditory Prosthesis Lab. While the average person takes a keyboard’s sound for granted, Ning Zhou, an...

Feb 24, 2020
  • Rob Spahr

RESEARCHING MUSCLE FUNCTION

East Carolina University researchers – in collaboration with researchers from Florida State University and the University of Hannover, Germany – discovered that a small region in the cardiac protein, troponin...

Feb 20, 2020
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

MASTER EDUCATORS

A trio of physicians - Drs. Adam Kansagor, Susan Schmidt and Diane Semer - were recently named master educators by the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. The...