Health Sciences Archives

Aug 10, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Brody offers glimpse of life in medical school

Since her childhood, Melenis Lopez has dreamed of becoming a physician who heals patients in underserved communities and makes an impact on every life she encounters along the way. Thanks...

Dr. Tom Irons gives first-year medical students at the Brody School of Medicine a historical tour of Greenville.
Aug 09, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

MEDICAL STUDENT BUS TOUR

Groups of first-year medical school students boarded an ECU bus on Aug. 1, knowing only that they were going to get a tour of Greenville. What they actually received was...

Aug 07, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Brody administrator named fellow in newest class of emerging women leaders

A dean at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine has been awarded an international fellowship that recognizes her potential for executive leadership in academic medicine. Dr. Leigh Patterson, associate dean for...

Kenneth Lowery II receives his coat during the Brody School of Medicine White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2022. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Aug 03, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

2018 WHITE COAT CEREMONY

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University officially welcomed the most diverse class of medical students in its 42-year history during its annual White Coat Ceremony on Friday...

Jul 31, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU Physicians nurse practitioner earns dermatology certification

A nurse practitioner with ECU Physicians has earned a certification in dermatology. Erin McGillicuddy Hurd has been awarded the Dermatology Certified Nurse Practitioner (DCNP) designation by the Dermatology Nursing Certification...

Jul 30, 2018
  • Bri Deel

Student: Katelyn Kincer

Katelyn Kincer, a rising senior in the Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses (RIBN) program at East Carolina University, is at the top of her class. “Katelyn has been an amazing student...

Jul 25, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Boys & Girls Club members explore nursing at ECU

A group of middle school and high school students from the Farmville Boys & Girls Club paid a visit to the ECU College of Nursing Thursday, July 19, to learn...

Jul 24, 2018
  • ECU News Services

After wife’s death, professor creates nursing scholarship in her name

Dr. Tom Irons keeps a voicemail on his phone of his wife laughing. It’s just a short giggle in an otherwise mundane message, but her laugh is one of the...

Sustainability Manager Chad Carwein, left, Recycling Coordinator Terry Little and Dr. Mark Stacy, dean of the Brody School of Medicine, listen as Eddie Johnson, assistant director of ECU’s Office of Prospective Health, discusses the functionality of newly installed solar tables at Brody. (Photo by Rhett Butler)
Jun 29, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

BUILDING A BETTER BRODY

Upon being appointed dean of ECU’s Brody School of Medicine, Dr. Mark Stacy did something unprecedented. He challenged the medical school’s staff to help “Build a Better Brody” and announced...

Dr. Darla Liles with patient Raynelle Phipps
Jun 22, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

TREATING ITP

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University took part in the study of a new drug recently approved by the FDA to treat a bleeding disorder. Idiopathic thrombocytopenic...