Spaine Stephens Archives

Feb 02, 2022
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Pitt County Care Clinic offers community care led by ECU medical students

On a blustery, sunny Sunday afternoon in January, physicians and medical students hurried into the Pitt County Health Department’s Earl Trevathan Jr., M.D. Public Health Center and disappeared into a...

Feb 01, 2022
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CARING FOR SMILES

Although Darian Askew has worn out the beaten paths between Greenville and Ahoskie, the roads in both directions lead home. Askew, a fourth-year dental student in the East Carolina University...

Jan 24, 2022
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Bone marrow donation virtual event highlights need for donors, diversity

Participants in a virtual panel Jan. 20 learned about the process of signing up for the bone marrow donation registry through Be the Match, operated by the National Marrow Donor...

Jan 19, 2022
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Student: Bridget Gallagher

For Bridget Gallagher, medicine is personal. The second-year student in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University balances a rigorous academic schedule while also immersing herself in community...

Jan 12, 2022
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ECU, Vidant OB-GYN earns award for advocacy on rights of incarcerated women

A faculty member and obstetrician in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and Vidant Health has been honored for her efforts to pass legislation that, among other...

Dec 01, 2021
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Agromedicine director wins national Professional Recognition Award

Dr. Robin Tutor Marcom, director of the North Carolina Agromedicine Institute, has received a national award for her work in educating North Carolina employers and workers on pesticide safety. Tutor...

Nov 12, 2021
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ECU medical, dental schools partner to improve telehealth access

Faculty in East Carolina University’s Division of Health Sciences are collaborating on grant-funded efforts to enhance connectivity for home-based telehealth primary care access for patients in rural eastern North Carolina...

Fourth-year ECU School of Dental Medicine student Victoria Hardy prepares to perform a root canal on her mother, Barbara Hardy. The School of Dental Medicine is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Nov 04, 2021
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DECADE OF DENTISTRY

Several years ago, Victoria Hardy stared out the window of an East Carolina University Transit bus at Ledyard E. Ross Hall, the new home of the School of Dental Medicine...

Dr. Tom Irons, East Carolina University's associate vice chancellor for health sciences, was awarded the 2021 Jim Bernstein Community Health Career Achievement Award on Oct. 22 by the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 26, 2021
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CAREER KUDOS

Wherever Dr. Thomas G. “Tom” Irons goes, his reputation as a tireless advocate for health care access for all North Carolinians precedes him. Irons is an East Carolina University fixture,...

Oct 14, 2021
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ECU researcher explores bacteria behaviors

A professor in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study the structural and functional properties of bacterial enzyme...