By combining best practices in education and mental health care, Christina Cruz works to enhance interventions for elementary-aged patients before concerns become crises.
Medical student Joshua Romero competed last month and raised more than $3,000 to support the UNC School of Medicine’s Student Health Action Coalition, a free student-run clinic available to the Chapel Hill community.
Meredith Stiehl received a partial-liver transplant from her daughter Kenan, the first-ever living donor procedure at UNC Hospitals to be conducted in 20 years. Dr. Chirag Desai led the care team that performed the procedure.
UNC School of Medicine’s Dr. Alex K. Gertner and Dr. Beat D. Steiner led a study on a new “enhanced primary care” model, which resulted in lower blood pressure and hemoglobin A1c and increased screening for people with severe mental illness.