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...
Health Sciences Archives
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...
BUILDING HEALTHIER FAMILIES
Annie Andrews’s doctor said she needed to lose weight, but that wasn’t a simple request for the Parmele resident. “Some of the ingredients I needed (for healthier recipes), I couldn’t...
'Death and Diversity in Civil War Medicine' explains the disparity of mortality
The American Civil War occurred during a time when medicine was just beginning to make great strides. Contemporary doctors did not fully understand the origin of disease, the importance of hygiene,...