On April 6th, the UNC Health Care team reported on the expansion of Air Care occurring over the last year and their most recent milestone. “A little over two years ago, UNC Carolina Air Care launched a new orientation program … Read more

The 2017 Innovation Pilot Awards were announced on March 23rd and a team from Otolaryngology and Computer Science was selected. Their project entitled “Development of Augmented Reality Applications to Improve Safety and Efficiency in the Operating Room” will receive funds to support this … Read more

On February 21, Drs. Lew Lampiris and Rumay Alexander presented a session on poverty simulation as an educational tool for dental and nursing students as part of the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy Seminar Series at the Cecil … Read more

At the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) 17th Annual International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) meeting in Orlando, the UNC Anesthesia team was recognized with the top research abstract award. Stiegler M, Martinelli S, Chen F, Arora H, Hobbs … Read more

Two new publications are out to start the new year. Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Richard Feins has two articles in this month’s issue of Annals of Thoracic Surgery. The articles describe the current state of the art in Cardiac Surgery as … Read more

An abstract presented at the Air Medical Transport Conference in September was recently published in the Air Medical Journal. The team at Carolina Air Care has expanded their staff by close to 40% requiring the team to evaluate how they recruit, evaluate, … Read more

Dr. Robert Iassk presented this weekend at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) annual meeting in Seattle, WA this week. His presentation focused on the use of video in assessment of anesthesia resident milestones during an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). … Read more

Today, UNC Trauma Services went live with their new Tarheel Trauma protocol. In the February of 2016, Dr. Daryhl Johnson and UNC Trauma Leaders were awarded a $50,000 seed grant from the Institute of Healthcare Quality and Innovation (IHQI) to … Read more

A team lead by UNC Anesthesiologist Dr. Rob Isaak recently had a paper accepted by the journal Medical Science Educator online. The article will be in print soon but check it out now by clicking the link below. Isaak R, Chen … Read more

The Code Sepsis team and a group of simulation experts at UNC Hospitals partnered on April 12 for an educational simulation focused on sepsis recognition and treatment through nurse empowerment and hands-on practice with realistic scenarios. This interprofessional training session … Read more