A generous anonymous gift in honor of Dr. Bill Roper has established a new fund designed to bolster patient support services at UNC Children’s. The William L. Roper, MD Fellows Fund was established recently thanks to a $500,000 anonymous gift … Read more| UNC Health Foundation
For A Leslie Morrow, PhD, renowned neuroscientist and longtime faculty member at UNC School of Medicine, the opportunity to give back to the institution that shaped her career is both personal and profound. Together with husband Michael Lish, MD – … Read more| UNC Health Foundation
On the afternoon of Sunday, June 1, an enthusiastic group of franchise owners, store managers and team members from across the state gathered at Tobacco Road Sports Café in downtown Raleigh—all there to celebrate the culmination of Jersey Mike’s Month … Read more| UNC Health Foundation
This generous gift will support melanoma research and care for patients from all corners of the state and beyond in memory of Mitchener’s late father, Dr. Calvin Mitchener. A $5 million gift from Western North Carolina-based UNC-Chapel Hill alumni John … Read more| UNC Health Foundation
UNC Health leaders in rare pediatric cancer research and treatment have received a grant of $171,382 from the Charlotte-based Isabella Santos Foundation through the organization’s TORCH Initiative. ISF’s TORCH (Transformational Outcomes for Rare Cancer Heroes) Initiative is a bold extension … Read more| UNC Health Foundation
The third annual UNC Health “Fill the Pantry” food drive, hosted at the Wegmans Chapel Hill store, collected nearly 2,000 pounds of non-perishable food items. Running from February 1 to February 28, the initiative supported the UNC Health FoodWell program, … Read more| UNC Health Foundation
This story – which includes discussion of issues related to mental health and suicide – was written before Hurricane Helene brought widespread destruction and even greater mental health challenges to Western North Carolina. In the aftermath of the storm, mental … Read more| UNC Health Foundation
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The UNC Health Foundation Board of Directors unanimously approved a $2.5 million investment in the UNC Health Employee Assistance Fund in response to the ongoing crisis in western North Carolina. The board approved the immediate transfer … Read more| UNC Health Foundation
Jeffrey S. A. Stringer, MD, FACOG, has been named the inaugural recipient of this distinguished professorship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dan and Katchy Clarke-Pearson have extended a decades-long legacy of supporting women’s health through the establishment of … Read more| UNC Health Foundation
Mackenzie says that spending the holidays in the burn ICU because her 1-year-old daughter had second- and third-degree burns was not on her bingo card. But that is what happened. The holidays are a special time, but for families with … Read more| UNC Health Foundation
