Amy Adams Ellis Archives

Camp Needles in the Pines participant Dylan Simpson packs his gear in preparation for leaving on the final day of camp. The one-week camp offered each summer by the Department of Pediatrics in the Brody School of Medicine helps children learn strategies for coping with their Type 1 Diabetes. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Aug 04, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

INDEPENDENCE DAYS

Right after breakfast on the final day of Camp Needles in the Pines, the director led 75 young campers in a rousing rendition of the camp song, complete with hand...

ECU alumnus and MATCH Program Director Tim Hardison, right, and Dr. Suzanne Lazorick, pediatrician and child obesity expert with ECU’s Pediatric Healthy Weight Research and Treatment Center, collaborated on an obesity intervention program targeting middle school children. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 14, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

EMPOWERING YOUTH

When seventh-grade science teacher and East Carolina University alumnus Tim Hardison learned his fellow Martin County residents had the shortest life expectancy in the state, he wanted to know why....

ECU Physicians’ online patient portal, MyChart, allows individuals like ECU student Summer Tillman, pictured above using the MyChart web site, to access their health care team electronically. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 17, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

PAPERLESS PRACTICE

The clinical practice of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has been recognized for significantly improving patient care through the use of their electronic medical record system....

ECU professor Dr. Vivek Anand has completed research that demonstrates a large number of teens in eastern North Carolina are using e-cigarettes, with minimal knowledge of associated health hazards. Anand is pictured above with a sample of e-cigarette advertising, at right, compared with tobacco advertising from years past. (Photo by Jay Clark)
Jun 02, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

GATEWAY TO ADDICTION

An East Carolina University psychiatrist has published research that shows what adolescents in eastern North Carolina think of electronic cigarettes and how they’re using them. Dr. Vivek Anand, clinical assistant...

ECU pediatric surgeon Dr. Danielle Walsh accepts the SAGES Education and Research Foundation’s Excellence in Medical Leadership Award during the organization’s Surgical Spring Week conference in Nashville, Tennessee. (Contributed photo)
May 21, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

‘GOLDEN TICKET’

An East Carolina University pediatric surgeon has been named an outstanding medical leader by the international Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons. Dr. Danielle Walsh, associate professor of surgery...

May 12, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

QUALITY OF CARE

A nurse specialist in vascular surgery 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...

May 08, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis
  • Doug Boyd

GRADUATION DAY

Sunshine lighted the smiles of graduates as they marched into Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium for the 106th spring commencement at East Carolina University today. And even as clouds from Subtropical Storm Ana...

At the first Medical Education Day at ECU, Dr. Elizabeth Baxley, senior associate dean for academic affairs at the Brody School of Medicine, left, speaks with keynote speaker Dr. Rajesh Mangrulkar, associate dean for medical school education at the University of Michigan. ECU and the University of Michigan are among 11 schools selected nationwide to reshape medical education. (Photos by Gretchen Baugh)
Apr 24, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

LEARNING AND LEADING

Innovations in medical education were showcased and shared April 22 as health sciences faculty and learners from across East Carolina University gathered at the East Carolina Heart Institute at ECU...

Nursing professor Dr. Pamela Reis, left, and nurse-midwifery student Farrah Forney review information about a virtual patient online. The virtual patient is being used in a plan of treatment that includes faculty and students from multiple disciplines at ECU. (Photos courtesy of Pamela Reis)
Apr 21, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

TEACHING TEAMWORK

Students and residents representing three of East Carolina University’s health sciences programs recently participated in the university’s first interprofessional virtual patient case. Between April 6 and 10, a dozen nurse-midwifery...

ECU professor Dr. MD Motaleb, pictured above, was awarded $423,000 to investigate disease mechanisms related to bacteria that transmit Lyme disease from infected deer ticks. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 08, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

‘DEBILITATING DISORDER’

A researcher in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the...