PATIENTS AS TEACHERS
Ernestine Wilkins couldn’t recall having ever won anything — until Brody School of Medicine student Shahzeb Khan chose to honor her for the impact she had on his path as...
Health Sciences Archives
Graduate student earns ECU’s first Schweitzer Fellowship in public health
Graduate student Gabriel Beattie-Sergio has earned ECU’s first-ever Schweitzer Fellowship in public health, to create and sustain a project aimed at determining and eliminating different factors that contribute to childhood...
IMPROVING PATIENT COMMUNICATION
East Carolina University students interested in careers in health care will soon have a new tool to help them better communicate with Spanish-speaking patients, a rapidly increasing segment of the...
IMPROVING QUALITY OF CARE
A surgical oncologist at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine was recently awarded a grant aimed at improving the care provided to breast cancer patients across the region. Dr. Jan Wong...
ECU WINS NATIONAL COMPETITION
In a nationwide contest searching for the “best innovations in science and medicine” – out of a field of more than 64 prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale and MIT...
BRODY RECEIVES NATIONAL PRAISE
In 2013, 80 percent of the nation’s medical schools applied for grant funding through the American Medical Association’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative. East Carolina University’s Brody School of...
Brody School of Medicine names vice dean of operations
East Carolina University (ECU) has named a new vice dean of operations for the Brody School of Medicine. Dr. Peter Schmidt will begin serving as Brody’s second in command on...
College of Allied Health Sciences celebrates scholarship recipients, donors
A relatively small donation nearly 40 years ago created a domino effect of generosity that continues to help students in the ECU College of Allied Health Sciences. On March 26,...
BEAR HUGS
East Carolina University’s TEDI BEAR Child Advocacy Center was recently awarded a landmark $1.2 million grant to further its efforts in aiding adolescent victims of abuse. The grant comes from...
ECU, PCC AGREEMENT
The College of Allied Health Sciences at East Carolina University is the only school in North Carolina to offer an accredited undergraduate program in health information management. And there were...