Amy Adams Ellis Archives

Nov 11, 2016
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CLINICAL CATALYSTS

The Department of Family Medicine at East Carolina University has landed several large grants this year aimed at enhancing primary health care in rural areas. Collectively totaling $4.5 million, the...

Oct 20, 2016
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AIMING HIGH

Twenty-five health sciences professionals and administrators from East Carolina University and Vidant Health gathered for a daylong session recently at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium’s Club Level to learn about improving quality in...

Oct 05, 2016
  • Amy Adams Ellis

FAMILY TRADITION

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University was ranked among the nation’s top five medical schools again this year for the high percentage of its graduates pursuing careers...

Class of 2020 Brody Scholars (from left) Katherine Mulligan, Chantel Morey and Bryan Morales (Photos by Gretchen Baugh)
Aug 25, 2016
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LIVING LEGACIES

Three medical students at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine have been awarded the most prestigious scholarship available at the university. Bryan Morales, Chantel Morey and Katherine Mulligan have...

Dr. Darrell Neufer, director of the East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, works with Maria Torres, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in bioenergetics, in an East Carolina Heart Institute lab. Torres is studying how menopause affects insulin-resistance. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 15, 2016
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RAISING THE GAME

On the first three floors of the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University, medical specialists are immersed in providing world-renowned care to patients living with cardiovascular diseases. But...

Jun 07, 2016
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TARGETED TREATMENT

Physicians at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine are the first in the mid-Atlantic region to offer a new treatment option for pancreatic cancer. The treatment involves the use...

Jun 07, 2016
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Student: Jim Eubanks

Jim Eubanks is passionate about helping people who suffer from the No. 1 cause of disability worldwide: spine-related disorders. The rising third-year medical student entered the Brody School of Medicine...

May 16, 2016
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CONSISTENT CARING

A nurse specialist in pediatrics has been selected by her peers as this year’s top nurse at ECU Physicians, the group medical practice of the Brody School of Medicine at...

May 09, 2016
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MARVELOUS MULTIPLES

It was all hands on deck when six Pirate patients from across the East came together recently to celebrate their healthy babies. Six new mothers of triplets – who all...

Apr 11, 2016
  • Amy Adams Ellis

EMERGENCY EXPERIENCE

Amid blinking lights, shattering glass and thumping helicopter blades, adrenaline was pumping at the Winterville Fire-Rescue-EMS station April 9 as students from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina...