NURSING EXCELLENCE
A nurse manager in adult and pediatric health care has been selected by her peers as the 2018 Nurse of the Year at ECU Physicians, the medical practice of the...
Rob Spahr Archives
BETTER HEARING AND SPEECH
The ECU College of Allied Health Sciences’ Speech-Language & Hearing Clinic wanted to do more than simply raise awareness about hearing and speech problems during Better Hearing and Speech Month...
EXCELLENCE IN RURAL HEALTH
East Carolina University has announced plans to establish a new School of Rural Public Health in August of 2020, after the plans were approved by the UNC System Board of...
BRODY ALUMNA RETURNS TO ECU
Dr. Lisa Callahan’s life has not played out according to plan. But that’s only because she is not a fan of planning. Instead, Callahan – a 1983 East Carolina University...
ECU MAKES MINDGAMES FINALS
A team of East Carolina University psychiatry residents training at Vidant Medical Center was the top qualifier for the finals of a nationwide competition organized by the American Psychiatric Association....
TREATING ACHALASIA
Eating is one of the basic functions of life, but something that is often not possible for the approximately 200,000 U.S. residents living with achalasia. The rare disorder occurs when...
PIRATES VS. CANCER
Music from a live band pumped through speakers outside of ECU’S Health Sciences Student Center on Friday afternoon, as gusting winds provided relief from the eastern North Carolina springtime heat...
IMPROVING PATIENT COMMUNICATION
East Carolina University students interested in careers in health care will soon have a new tool to help them better communicate with Spanish-speaking patients, a rapidly increasing segment of the...
ECU WINS NATIONAL COMPETITION
In a nationwide contest searching for the “best innovations in science and medicine” – out of a field of more than 64 prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale and MIT...
BRODY RECEIVES NATIONAL PRAISE
In 2013, 80 percent of the nation’s medical schools applied for grant funding through the American Medical Association’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative. East Carolina University’s Brody School of...