Medical student receives Hughes fellowship at NIH
GREENVILLE, N.C. (June 5, 2001) — Rob Oxford, a second-year student at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has won a Howard Hughes fellowship award...
Jeannine Manning Hutson Archives
ECU surgeon receives UNC’s highest faculty honor
GREENVILLE, N.C. (May 11, 2001) — Dr. Walter J. Pories Jr., professor of surgery and biochemistry at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, received the...
ECU ranks in annual magazine survey
GREENVILLE, N.C. (May 4, 2001) — The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University moved up in the annual "U.S. News & World Report" annual rankings of...
Photodynamic therapy offers new hope for cancer patients
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Apr. 3, 2001) — For many years, cancer patients were faced with limited treatment options: surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy being the main three. Today, one...
Kragel Likes Challenge of Being Interim Dean
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Mar. 1, 2001) — If you need to schedule an appointment with Dr. Peter Kragel, try calling one of his three offices: there's one he has...
ECU study shows sentinel node biopsy effective tool in breast cancer treatment
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Jan. 17, 2001) — Research at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and seven other medical centers published in this month's edition of...
ECU surgeons to lead FDA multi-center robotic surgery trial
Cardiac surgeons at University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina will lead a national multi-center clinical trial using the da Vinci Surgical System for mitral valve repair. Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood...
FDA approves second clinical trial for robotic heart surgery
Cardiac surgeons at University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina have been granted a second clinical trial from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to continue studying robotic surgery in the...