EXCELLENCE IN RURAL HEALTH
East Carolina University has announced plans to establish a new School of Rural Public Health in August of 2020, after the plans were approved by the UNC System Board of...
Health Sciences Archives
Eastern AHEC, ECU and Camp Lejeune partner on new military-civilian cardiac conference
More than 250 military and civilian health professionals came together for a new educational conference entitled Premature Cardiac Death in Eastern North Carolina on May 8 at Camp Lejeune. This...
Student: Peter Eischens
Peter Eischens is a second-year doctoral student in the rehabilitation counseling and administration program at East Carolina University. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at St. Cloud State University,...
BRODY ALUMNA RETURNS TO ECU
Dr. Lisa Callahan’s life has not played out according to plan. But that’s only because she is not a fan of planning. Instead, Callahan – a 1983 East Carolina University...
ECU MAKES MINDGAMES FINALS
A team of East Carolina University psychiatry residents training at Vidant Medical Center was the top qualifier for the finals of a nationwide competition organized by the American Psychiatric Association....
NEW LEASE ON LIFE
“It was a life-changing experience.” That’s how Brandon Hodges describes the kidney transplant he received a couple of months ago at Vidant Medical Center (VMC). Hodges, 42, is a physical...
Clinton's lead surgeon returns to Brody for lecture
The chest surgeon who led the team that once operated on former President Bill Clinton gave a lecture at the East Carolina Heart Institute on April 25. The surgeon, Dr....
TREATING ACHALASIA
Eating is one of the basic functions of life, but something that is often not possible for the approximately 200,000 U.S. residents living with achalasia. The rare disorder occurs when...
PIRATES VS. CANCER
Music from a live band pumped through speakers outside of ECU’S Health Sciences Student Center on Friday afternoon, as gusting winds provided relief from the eastern North Carolina springtime heat...
Dr. Emmanuel Zervos named to Raab Professorship
After years of preparation, an endowed professorship through the East Carolina University Medical & Health Sciences Foundation was conferred on its first recipient Thursday at the East Carolina Heart Institute...