Women face challenges in academics, research, surgeon says
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Apr. 6, 2010) — Dr. Patricia Numann – renowned surgeon, academic leader – is proof women have accomplished much in medicine and medical research. But even...
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Brody sending 58 percent into primary care residencies
GREENVILLE, N.C. — More than half of the medical students graduating from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University this spring will go into primary care residencies. Those...
Match Day to be Thursday
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Graduating East Carolina University medical students will learn where they will spend the next few years as doctors-in-training during the annual Match Day at noon Thursday, March...
Bell of Hope dedicated at cancer center
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Mar. 5, 2010) — Joseph Purington paused before becoming the first cancer patient to ring the new Bell of Hope at the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer...
ECU ‘tops out’ Family Medicine Center
GREENVILLE, N.C. — East Carolina University marked a milestone in the construction of its new Family Medicine Center with a "topping out" event Tuesday, March 2. "This building will...
Social factors and obesity topic of upcoming Pediatric Healthy Weight Summit
GREENVILLE, N.C. — The effects of families, friends, churches and other social factors on childhood obesity will be the topic of the seventh annual Pediatric Healthy Weight Summit. The...
New clinic for breast cancer survivors opens
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Breast cancer survivors in eastern North Carolina have a convenient place to turn for continuing care following their cancer treatments. The Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center is...
Medical resident taken by cancer
GREENVILLE, N.C. — An East Carolina University family medicine resident has succumbed to her four-and-one-half-year battle with cancer. Dr. Katherine Bray-Strickland died Wednesday. She was 27. She was diagnosed...
Rotondo to Chair National Trauma Committee
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Dr. Michael F. Rotondo has been appointed chair of the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons. He is professor and chair of surgery at...
Embracing change key to survival, Cunningham says
GREENVILLE, N.C. — With challenges as well as opportunities at home and abroad, embracing change and learning from it are more important than ever, according to Dr. Paul Cunningham, dean...