TEACHERS OF QUALITY
The Brody School of Medicine’s innovative Teachers of Quality Academy (TQA) – which trains healthcare professionals to improve quality in health care delivery – recently welcomed its fourth cohort. The...
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Student: Liz Blumthal
Liz Blumthal wants to leave her legacy at East Carolina University while preparing to care for others. Blumthal, a junior from Suwannee, Georgia, is an Honors College student with a...
ECU College of Nursing celebrates 122 student scholarships provided by generous donors
An annual scholarship reception at the ECU College of Nursing on Sept. 27 celebrated 122 students receiving nursing scholarships totaling $327,550 – all made possible through the generosity of donors....
VIRTUAL REALITY COMES TO ECU
User-friendly virtual reality has arrived on ECU’s Health Sciences Campus. Laupus Library has unveiled a new Virtual Reality Lab, a virtual reality learning, experimentation and development workspace on the second...
HEALTHY FARMWORKERS
Heat-related illnesses, pesticide exposure and other occupational hazards face migrant and seasonal farmworkers each day. But a new three-year, $427,551 health disparities grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National...
DEDICATED TO DENTISTRY
On a hot summer day in New Bern, long lines of people waited to get into the Garber United Methodist Church, but not to worship. On this day, the pews...
ECU faculty member joins leadership of National Nursing League
ECU faculty member Dr. Mark Hand has been elected to serve as a member of the National League for Nursing (NLN) Board of Governors for a three-year term beginning this...
COLLABORATIONS IN CARE
A unique grant celebrates East Carolina University’s commitment to using interprofessional collaboration to address emerging and challenging trends in health care, including opioid use and substance abuse prevention and treatment....
Fallon takes helm of Brody’s pathology department
Dr. John T. Fallon was named chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, effective Sept. 1. Most recently, Fallon was...
NURSES ADDRESSING NEEDS
Thanks to new grant funding, graduates from several ECU College of Nursing departments will be poised to provide health care that makes a big difference in small communities. The four-year,...