Health Sciences Archives

Jun 24, 2019

ECU Nursing professor appointed to FDA advisory committee

An ECU College of Nursing faculty member has been appointed to serve on a committee for the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the nation’s foremost authority on protecting public...

Jun 21, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

FARM STRESS

Farmers in eastern North Carolina are facing a crisis of compounding issues that are threatening their mental health and that of their families. There’s the increased competition from foreign trade...

Dr. Eugene Nelson of Dartmouth gives a keynote on value-based care at Re-Designing Health Care for Eastern NC: The Next 20 Years conference. The event was held at the Eastern Area Health Education Center on Friday, June 14, 2019. (Photo by Rhett Butler)
Jun 20, 2019
  • Jackie Drake

REVOLUTIONIZING HEALTH CARE

Twenty years ago, Amazon and Netflix were just starting out; now these mainstays of everyday life can offer valuable lessons for the health care industry. This was the focus of...

Jun 19, 2019

Donica tapped as new occupational therapy chair

The new chair of ECU’s Department of Occupational Therapy in the College of Allied Health Sciences hopes to retain the department’s stellar reputation and its balance of research opportunities to...

Jun 16, 2019
  • Janiya Winchester

EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has selected ECU clinical nutrition specialist Kay Craven as the recipient of its 2019 Excellence in Practice – Community Dietetics Award. The award recognizes...

Jun 14, 2019

Health Sciences vice chancellor awarded alma mater’s highest honor

Dr. Mark Stacy, dean of the Brody School of Medicine and vice chancellor of ECU’s Division of Health Sciences, was recently awarded the University of Missouri School of Medicine’s highest...

Jun 14, 2019
  • Peggy Novotny

PREPARING TOMORROW’S DENTISTS

As an offensive lineman on East Carolina University’s football team, Travish Hicks was tasked with defending the quarterback—a challenging assignment. During a recent three-day workshop at the ECU School of...

Jun 10, 2019

Laupus Library exhibits “The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ‘The Yellow Wall-paper’”

Laupus Library is hosting the traveling exhibit “The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ‘The Yellow Wall-paper’” in the Evelyn Fike Laupus gallery on the fourth floor of the...

Jun 07, 2019
  • Natalie Sayewich

ADDICTION & REHABILITATION

The first study abroad trip for ECU’s Department of Addictions and Rehabilitation studies gave a group of graduate students and a couple of faculty members new perspectives on drug policies,...

Jun 07, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

SCHOOL-BASED TELEMEDICINE

East Carolina University, the Duplin County School District and health professionals in Duplin County collectively launched an initiative in 2016 in hopes of removing some of the barriers to health...