Medical Archives

Aug 18, 2022
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

Forum celebrates medical and dental student research, distinction track projects

East Carolina University medical and dental students in the Summer Scholars Research and distinction track programs showcased their scholarly work on Aug. 1 during the 25th Annual Medical Student Scholarship...

Dr. Ogugua Ndili Obi, assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care, listens to a patient’s lung sounds at Brody School of Medicine’s sarcoidosis clinic.
Aug 15, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

TREATING SARCOIDOSIS

An East Carolina University clinic is gaining international recognition for its efforts to tackle a bedeviling systemic inflammatory disease that affects an unusually high number of people in eastern North...

Aug 12, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU leads blood pressure clinical trial using home monitoring, team approach

Researchers at East Carolina University will lead a five-year randomized clinical trial aimed at improving blood pressure control in rural and urban patients using targeted home-based monitoring and telehealth and...

Aug 05, 2022
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

Brody School of Medicine researchers advancing brain health knowledge

Two researchers at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine have been selected as the 2022 recipients of the Wooten Family Initiative for Brain Health Research Grant. Dr. Alessandro Didonna,...

Dr. Jeffrey Eells, Brody School of Medicine associate professor of anatomy and cell biology, led a study on the relationship between COVID-19 exposure and the likelihood of development of Parkinson’s disease.
Aug 04, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

COVID-PARKINSON’S LINK

A team of scientists, led by researchers from East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, have identified another problem stemming from COVID-19 infections — the potential for greater risk of...

First-year medical student Haris Shehzad receives his white coat during The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University’s annual White Coat Ceremony on July 29.
Jul 29, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

2022 WHITE COAT CEREMONY

Excitement resonated from East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus on Friday morning as the Brody School of Medicine officially welcomed 86 new medical students  — all North Carolina residents  —...

Jul 26, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

Lumbee Tribe STEM students visit ECU

High school students from North Carolina’s largest state-recognized Indian tribe — and who have particular interest in science, technology, engineering and math fields — visited East Carolina University’s Health Sciences...

Jul 22, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

Brody School of Medicine dean named to AAMC’s Board of Directors

Dr. Michael Waldrum, dean of East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine and chief executive officer of ECU Health, has been named to the board of directors of the Association...

Jun 24, 2022
  • Rob Spahr

RESEARCHING PFAS

Dr. Jamie DeWitt, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, was one of four researchers to be awarded an inaugural fellowship through the...

Jun 16, 2022
  • Rob Spahr

FIGHTING COVID-19

A pair of researchers at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine have discovered that a new nanotechnology could potentially have therapeutic benefits in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2, the virus...