Health Sciences Archives

Feb 28, 2019

ECU Physicians earns Gold Status from American Heart Association

ECU Physicians has been honored for its dedication to improving patients’ blood pressures. The practice’s Adult Medicine and Pediatrics Clinic recently earned a Gold Status designation from the Target: BP...

Feb 22, 2019

ECU Physicians, UnitedHealthcare announce new network relationship

ECU Physicians and UnitedHealthcare have established a new network relationship, giving people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare employer and individual plans greater access to ECU Physicians. The new relationship provides plan participants...

Feb 20, 2019

‘An important step’

The Society for Simulation in Healthcare granted provisional accreditation to the East Carolina University College of Nursing’s simulation program, making ECU the only public university in the state with either...

Feb 15, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

WALK IN THEIR SHOES

More than 50 East Carolina University undergraduate students participated in a poverty simulation on Feb. 8, with the goal of increasing their understanding of the day-to-day realities faced by people...

ECU professor Dr. Stephanie Pitts talks with convenience store owner David Rizik about the healthy food choices available in his store on Old Pactolus Highway in Pitt County. (ECU Photo by Rhett Butler)
Feb 08, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTHIER FOOD OPTIONS

Researchers from East Carolina University have been awarded grant funding to study the effectiveness of a program to improve access to healthy food options in North Carolina. The two-year, $250,000...

Feb 07, 2019

ECU physician receives national service award

A physician at the ECU Brody School of Medicine has received the 2018 Outstanding Service Award from the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry (AMP). Dr. Michael Lang, clinical associate professor...

Dr. Jitka Virag's research received nationwide recognition last year when it was selected as the winner of the STAT Madness contest which searches for the “best innovations in science and medicine.”
Feb 05, 2019
  • ECU News Services

DR. JITKA VIRAG

Imagine that someone suffering from a heart attack could have their life saved by the administration of a protein instead of having to undergo a stent placement or heart transplant...

Dr. Jamie Perry works with lab students Thanh Tran, left, and Katie Pelland on a computer program used for MRI data at the Allied Health Science Building.
Feb 05, 2019
  • ECU News Services

DR. JAMIE PERRY

Dr. Jamie Perry, associate professor in ECU’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, is a leading expert in velopharyngeal anatomy and has developed imaging processes using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRIs)...

Feb 05, 2019
  • ECU News Services

CHANGING LIVES THROUGH RESEARCH

East Carolina University researchers and inventors will be recognized Tuesday evening, Feb. 5, at the university’s third annual Research and Scholarship Awards. The awards will honor ECU faculty with the...

Dr. Shannon Wallet, associate professor in the Department of Foundational Sciences at the ECU School of Dental Medicine, studies the communication of the immune system in her quest to understand diabetes. Along with her own research, she mentors student researchers.
Feb 04, 2019
  • Peggy Novotny

UNDERSTANDING DIABETES

After 20 years in diabetes research, Dr. Shannon Wallet believes that the key to addressing Type 1 diabetes is to understand the immune system processes that lead to the disease....