Doug Boyd Archives

Mar 18, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Mar 16, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Mar 05, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Mar 02, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Feb 18, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Feb 12, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Feb 11, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Jan 25, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Jan 21, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Jan 15, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Best Banquet to be Jan. 23

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University will hold its 26th annual Andrew A. Best M.D. Senior Recognition Banquet Jan. 23 at the East...