A PERFECT MATCH
For the first time since 2019, one of East Carolina University’s most exciting annual events returned to an in-person format Friday when 82 fourth-year medical students learned where they will...
Medical Archives
Emergency medicine professor earns national award in medical toxicology
A Brody School of Medicine emergency medicine professor has received a national award for his work in medical toxicology research. Dr. Jason Hack, vice chair for research and chief of...
ECHI hosts annual meeting of reproductive biology consortium
The Triangle Consortium for Reproductive Biology had its 30th annual meeting this month at the East Carolina Heart Institute. Dr. Chris Geyer, associate professor of anatomy and cell biology at...
BLUE CROSS FUNDING
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is awarding $1.54 million to East Carolina University to provide telepsychiatry services over the next five years for students at Elizabeth City...
Rural Health Symposium highlights equity, oral health, COVID-19 impact
Health equity, oral health, resilience and the impact of COVID-19 on rural health care were some of many topics covered at the fifth annual Rural Health Symposium on Feb. 23-25....
MEDITERRANEAN DIET
Evidence increasingly supports the idea that plant-based dietary patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, may play an important role in the risk reduction of many chronic diseases. To better educate...
KEEPING HEARTS HEALTHY
New research on an image-assisted approach to radiation treatment of breast cancer conducted by East Carolina University’s Dr. Jae Won Jung accurately evaluates partial radiation exposure to the heart during...
ECU dental school hosts annual Celebration of Research and Scholarship
The East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine held its seventh annual Celebration of Research and Scholarship (CORAS) on Feb. 9, honoring student exploration and discovery through oral health focused...
ECU’s Laupus Library to host Love Data Week
A tradition of information-sharing and conversations about data gathering and use will continue this year during Love Data Week, hosted by Laupus Health Sciences Library. Love Data Week, an international...
Pitt County Care Clinic offers community care led by ECU medical students
On a blustery, sunny Sunday afternoon in January, physicians and medical students hurried into the Pitt County Health Department’s Earl Trevathan Jr., M.D. Public Health Center and disappeared into a...