Medical school growth focus of ECU, UNC-CH By Jimmy Ryals
The Daily Reflector Monday, February 25, 2008 After several decades as sometimes testy sister institutions, East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have built a successful partnership. Since 2004, the pairing has yielded a cardiovascular institute and dental school in Greenville, a cancer hospital and dental expansion in Chapel Hill, and new cancer partnerships between the universities' medical schools. Read more...
Filling needs - Medical school expansion worth exploration Editorial
The Daily Reflector Sunday, February 17, 2008 When East Carolina University founded its medical school in the 1970s, it did so with the intention of improving access to health care in one of the state's poorest regions. In the three decades since, residents of eastern North Carolina have been fortunate to see the dramatic expansion of medical services, thanks in large measure to the men and women who hold East Carolina medical degrees. Read more...
Medicare Won't Pay Hospitals for Errors By LAURAN NEERGAARD
Feb 18, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a new way to push for patient safety: Don't pay hospitals when they commit certain errors. Medicare will start hitting hospitals where it hurts in October, and other insurers are hot on the trail. That has the nation's hospitals exploring innovative programs to prevent injury and infection: Hand-washing spies. Surgical sponges that sound an alarm if left in the body. Even a room sterilizer that promises to wipe out bacteria left lurking on bedrails. Read more...
ECU announced enrollment task force ECU News Bureau GREENVILLE(Jan. 30, 2008)—East Carolina University has announced the formation of a task force on strategic enrollment management to develop goals and plans that will determine what its student body will look like in coming years. “We have been the fastest-growing public university in North Carolina for the last five years,” Chancellor Steve Ballard said. “Clearly students and parents all across the state are finding more and more to like about East Carolina, and this is key to our success. Our growth is also illustrative of our historical commitment to access and opportunity.” Read more...
Pulmonary group to meet Community news
The Daily Reflector Wednesday, February 27, 2008 The Pulmonary Hypertension Support Group will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at the McConnell-Raab Hope Lodge, 930 Wellness Drive. Dr. Thomson Pancoast of East Carolina University's Physicians Pulmonary will speak. Dinner will be provided. For more information, call Kathleen Craigens 412-5909. The Yash P. Kataria IM Research Day is being established to honor the many contributions of Dr. Yash P. Kataria, and to support the educational and research program in the Department of Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at ECU. The annual Internal Medicine Research Day will be held this year on Thurs May 29th at BSOM and the keynote speaker will be Dr. Phil Bromberg, a giant in pulmonary environmental medicine and former chief of pulmonary at UNC-CH, a mentor and friend of Dr. Yash P. Kataria. Dr. Kataria continues to contribute actively to the clinical, educational, and research mission of the pulmonary & critical care division at BSOM. He was the first pulmonologist in eastern NC and helped to establish the pulmonary specialty at BSOM 30 years ago and has been an integral force since the inception of the medical school. Yash was the first division chief of pulmonary medicine at BSOM and successfully recruited and established a clinical and active laboratory research program. Yash is of course known regionally, nationally, and internationally for his passion in translational research with a particular focus on sarcoidosis. Over his 30 year career, he has cared for thousands of patients with sarcoidosis and he arguably has one of the largest sarcoid cohorts in the US. Yash is revered by his patients and families. Yash has literally trained hundreds of medical students and housestaff and is cherished by them as a role model and outstanding teacher at the bedside and in clinics. Yash has been a fixture in the international sarcoid community and has contributed actively at ACCP, ATS, and WASOG. Scientifically, Yash is perhaps best known for promulgating a paradigm shift in our understanding of sarcoid immunology. While it was accepted dogma in the 70s that sarcoidosis was a disease of “depressed immunity” and anergy, Yash proposed and championed the concept that it is a pro-inflammatory disease with involvement of activated T-cells, cytokines, etc. Yash and his group also proposed that the active “sarcoid factor” was localized to the cell walls of alveolar macrophages and monocytes (this remains an intriguing hypothesis!). Yash was instrumental in recruiting the new divisional leadership and establishment of a successful translational research program with and carry the trajectory that Yash established.
We are honoring Dr. Kataria by dedicating our annual Medicine Research Day, which he started in 1987, to the Yash P. Kataria IM Research Day. We will continue to build on the tradition of encouraging research by inviting leading guest speakers and facilitating scholarship and interaction by our trainees and faculty.
FCC Chairman to Announce Hospital Grant. 11/18/2007. Learn more... |
Dr. Cynthia Brown gave a talk at the National Medical Association meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, titled "Recognizing Health Care Disparities in Lung Cancer Surgery Decision Making" on August 8, 2007.
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Moye Medical Center
521-A Moye Boulevard
Greenville, NC 27834
Map To schedule an appointment or to get driving directions to Moye Medical, click here. | We've Moved!
The pulmonary outpatient clinic now has triple the clinical space! ECU Press Release (6/4/07) (Source: ECU Physicians)—Cardiologists, pulmonologists and other East Carolina University physicians are now seeing patients in the new Moye Medical Center, a three-story facility at 521 Moye Blvd.
University officials said the new practice site, which opened today, is one of many steps to move ECU Physicians, the group practice of the Brody School of Medicine at ECU, into modern, expanded sites during the next three years.
In the 43,000-square-foot building, ECU’s cardiology and pulmonary and critical care medicine practices will occupy the 12,637-square-foot first floor. With 19 exam rooms plus special procedure rooms, the facility gives these practices more clinical space than they had before at Medical Pavilion, a facility built in 1966 on West Fifth Street. Moye Medical's opening featured June 8, 2007 in:
Health Sciences News
ECU's Pieces of Eight Faculty/Staff Newsletter
Greenville's the Daily Reflector |
PCMH projects $1 Billion in income. 6/20/2007 Learn more...
COPD and Asthma, the second installment of the Better Breathing-Better Health conference series, was held May 9, 2007 in the Monroe Center. Patients are able to ask questions about COPD, asthma, and smoking cessation. This conference was presented by Mani Kavuru, MD and Terry Icard, PA-C. View news announcement here. Check back for more education conferences to be held this fall!
Physician Collaborates on Lung Health Program 11/3/2006
Dr. Mani Kavuru speaks to the Pieces of Eight faculty/staff newsletter. Read more.
Respiratory in the News Evidence-Based Articles Salmeterol and Fluticasone Propionate and Survival in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Peter M.A. Calverley, M.D., Julie A. Anderson, M.A., Bartolome Celli, M.D., Gary T. Ferguson, M.D., Christine Jenkins, M.D., Paul W. Jones, M.D., Julie C. Yates, B.S., and Jørgen Vestbo, M.D., for the TORCH investigators.
[abstract] [Download PDF Full Text] New Guidelines Issued for Family Support in Patient-Centered ICU CME/CE Our Presenters and Research at CHEST 2007 in Chicago, IL
October 20-25, 2007 | Presenter | Topic | Session | Get it! | | Chirag Patel, MD
Pulmonary Fellow | Flexible Bronchoscopic Deployment of Removal Polystyrene Stents | Wednesday, October 24
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Posters: Bronchoscopy, Stents, and Related Session | [Abstract] | | | | | | | | | Our Scientists at ATS - May 18-23, 2007 in San Francisco, CA! | Presenter | Topic | Location & Time | Download Abstract | | Mary Jane Thomassen, PhD | PPAR-g and Lung Disease (SS301) | Assembly on Allergy, Immunology and Inflammation
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 7:00 AM-8:00 AM | | | Achut Malur, PhD | Novel approach towards characterizing transcription factors in lung biology (SS218) | Assembly on Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 - 7:00 AM-8:00 AM |
[abstract] | | Anagha Malur, MS | Macrophage PPARg deletion disrupts lipid gene expression in murine alveolar macrophages | Poster presentation at a Thematic Poster session, D38 - Surfactant Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 8:15 AM-4:15 PM |
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| | Anna Armstrong, PhD Candidate | Lenti-mediated expression of PPARg in human and murine alveolar macrophages (3153) | Monday, May 21, 2007 10:15-12:15, Area L, Moscone Center |
[abstract] | | David Kasa, MD
Pulmonary Fellow | | Monday, May 21, 2007 8:00am-4:00pm | [abstract]
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