Medical Archives

Ruba Raza gets her hair cut by Stephani Funez during the 2019 Pirates Vs. Cancer event in the Health Science Campus student center.
Apr 08, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

PIRATES VS. CANCER

Stefani Funez spends most of her days trying to entertain herself in a hospital room. This has been the case for the 15-year-old Duplin County resident since she was diagnosed...

Apr 08, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Brody chapter of Gold Humanism Honor Society inducts new members

The East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) recently inducted nine new members. Third-year medical students Ryan Accomazzo, Matthew Drake, Kelsey Evans,...

Apr 02, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Agricultural health, safety issues addressed during collaborative N.C. symposium

Agromedicine experts from around the country descended on the Research Triangle on March 27 to discuss issues facing agricultural industry workers and their families. The 2019 North Carolina Agricultural Health...

Shayna Mooney reacts after learning she will complete her internal medicine residency at Carlilion Clinic-Virginia Tech School of Medicine.
Mar 15, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

MATCH DAY 2019

Fourth-year medical students gathered in the auditorium of ECU’s Brody School of Medicine on Friday – surrounded by their peers, professors and family members – to open letters telling them...

Nurse Wanda Carter prepares Greenville resident Jason Glisson for an intravenous antibiotic treatment at ECU Physicians’ new infusion center on Hemby Lane in Greenville.
Mar 01, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

MORE EFFICIENT CARE, FOR LESS

Eastern North Carolina residents in need of long-term intravenous antibiotic treatments now have an alternative to receiving those treatments in a hospital. ECU Physicians, the medical practice for the Brody...

Gloria Savage gets her blood pressure checked during the Jean Mills Health Symposium on Feb. 22.
Mar 01, 2019
  • Natalie Sayewich

IMPLEMENTING CHANGE

When Rev. Richard Joyner noticed a concerning trend of young people dying of chronic, preventable diseases in his small community of Conetoe, he went looking for solutions at the institutional...

Feb 28, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU Physicians earns Gold Status from American Heart Association

ECU Physicians has been honored for its dedication to improving patients’ blood pressures. The practice’s Adult Medicine and Pediatrics Clinic recently earned a Gold Status designation from the Target: BP...

Feb 22, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU Physicians, UnitedHealthcare announce new network relationship

ECU Physicians and UnitedHealthcare have established a new network relationship, giving people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare employer and individual plans greater access to ECU Physicians. The new relationship provides plan participants...

Feb 07, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU physician receives national service award

A physician at the ECU Brody School of Medicine has received the 2018 Outstanding Service Award from the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry (AMP). Dr. Michael Lang, clinical associate professor...

Dr. Jitka Virag's research received nationwide recognition last year when it was selected as the winner of the STAT Madness contest which searches for the “best innovations in science and medicine.”
Feb 05, 2019
  • ECU News Services

DR. JITKA VIRAG

Imagine that someone suffering from a heart attack could have their life saved by the administration of a protein instead of having to undergo a stent placement or heart transplant...