Medical Archives

Architectural rendering of a new medical education building at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, showing a landscaped plaza with trees, steps and walkways as people walk and gather outside the modern glass and brick building.
Mar 10, 2026
  • ECU News Services

ECU names new Center for Medical Education Building to honor Brody family

A transformational $10 million gift from David and Laura Brody of Raleigh, and Hyman and Stacy Brody of Greenville, will support and expand the Brody Scholars Program, East Carolina University...

Mar 05, 2026
  • Bobby Ampezzan

On YouTube, clinical psychologist counsels global community of heart warriors

The Heart Warrior Project may be the most popular YouTube channel for people living with implantable-cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), and on an episode earlier this year, East Carolina University psychology professor...

Two students lean over a yellow table to fill out a postcards. Purple pens and event flyers are spread across the table.
Mar 02, 2026
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU set to celebrate 10th day of giving Wednesday

When all of Pirate Nation participates, all of East Carolina University benefits. That’s the idea behind Pirate Nation Gives, the university’s annual giving day set for March 4. ECU is...

An older, professional dressed man stands with two younger women in an atrium with a large sculpture of a human heart being cradled by human hands.
Feb 24, 2026
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Research finds early exertion plateau in patients with new implanted cardiac devices

Research at East Carolina University is shedding light on how patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) recover physically in the months following surgery, and specifically, tracks a surprising early...

A man wearing a blue suit jacket and purple tie holds a glass award in front of a white projector screen
Feb 13, 2026
  • Steven Grandy

Board of Trustees honors Womack, acknowledges student achievements

The East Carolina University Board of Trustees honored Vern Davenport and David Womack with the Trustees Award for Distinction during its first meeting of 2026. The Trustees Award for Distinction...

A woman and a man in business attire stand before an office building smiling for the camera.
Jan 26, 2026
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Two medical school alumni take top careers to the Motor City’s health department

DETROIT — It is said of the East Carolina University Pirates’ football fanbase that it travels well. The same could be said of our best trained health and medical professionals....

A young, smiling man stands in front of a building marked “Financial Services.”
Jan 06, 2026
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Student finds a job offer and career at the end of work-study program

Ebrahim Rezk “Abe” Al Quhshi could be anywhere right now. Born in Yemen and raised for a time in Sudan, he moved to New York City as a youngster before...

Dec 18, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Society inductees spark a bright future through planned gifts

What is the outcome and impact of a charitable planned gift in an estate plan? For East Carolina University Bea Chauncey Scholarship recipient Caroline Kuskowski, a planned gift created the...

Dec 17, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Dr. Michael Warren leads March of Dimes’ plan of action against premature births

Is medical school the place for big-picture topics like population health and public policy? Opinions differ, and many satisfied students say they did not get such training. Dr. Michael Warren...

Two teenagers sit looking at a computer screen while a medical student points and appears to explain something.
Dec 11, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Hands-on anatomy broadens horizons for eastern North Carolina high schoolers

On the seventh floor of the Brody School of Medicine, in the pathology lab space, Rachel Smith stood in scrubs and nitrile gloves and lifted a dissected aorta, then a...