Doug Boyd Archives

Mar 20, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

ECU sends 66 percent into primary care residencies

Nearly two-thirds of the medical students graduating from East Carolina University this spring will enter primary care residencies. Those are the results of the annual Match Day, celebrated today amid...

Mar 19, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Medical students ready for annual Match Day on Thursday

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 20, in the...

Mar 07, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

UNC Board of Governors endorses plan to expand medical education in North Carolina

The University of North Carolina Board of Governors today endorsed a plan to expand medical education at the state's two public medical schools to address a predicted future physician shortage...

Feb 28, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Links between environment and obesity to be topic of Pediatric Healthy Weight Summit

The role of environmental factors, particularly exposure to certain plastics and pesticides while women are pregnant, in the development of childhood obesity will be the topic of the fifth annual...

Feb 22, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Smiles all around as officials break ground for dental school

Local, state and university leaders didn't let rain dampen their enthusiasm as they broke ground today for the new East Carolina University School of Dentistry. The 112,500-square-foot building will go...

Feb 13, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

ECU Physicians and Eastern Neurosurgical and Spine Associates to merge

ECU Physicians and a private neurosurgery practice plan to merge and take steps toward developing the region's first neuroscience institute at East Carolina University. Eastern Neurosurgical and Spine Associates, a...

Jan 31, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

ECU surgeon elected president of Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr. was elected president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons during the group's 44th annual meeting Jan. 27-29 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Chitwood is senior associate...

Jan 28, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Concert to benefit Grimesland clinic

A Feb. 10 concert by the East Carolina University Symphony Orchestra will help raise money for the Grimesland Free Clinic. The concert begins at 3 p.m. in Wright Auditorium on...

Jan 22, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

ECU, UNC team up on cancer care, research

he University of North Carolina's two medical schools and their cancer centers have created a partnership to advance cancer research and bring leading-edge treatment to North Carolinians. Officials at East...

Jan 17, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

ECU, UNC experts want to hear people’s ideas for cancer research, treatment

The needs of eastern North Carolinians with cancer will be the topic during a Jan. 24 "listening tour" stop in Greenville featuring representatives from the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in...