TY The Robesonian for highlighting our #EarlyAssurance partner #UNCPembroke. We recruit the brightest in #ENC for world-class medical training, producing primary care physicians for North Carolina. That's our distinctive culture, _servire_. https://bit.ly/3KG3fNb

Teaching is our why. Here are two of the greats, Drs. Benjamin Degner, the new Travis and Cassandra Burt Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences, and Dr. Wiley Nifong, inaugural Dr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Privette Distinguished Professor of Cardiac Surgery. TY Burt and Privette families!

Which works better to prevent catastrophic cardiovascular and kidney events in type 2 patients, GLP-1 receptor agonists or SGLT2 inhibitors? Dr. Shiv Patil and Dr. Beatriz Ramirez want to know, and they just got research $$$ from @brighamandwomens.bsky.social for the PCORI-funded PRECIDENTD study.

Recently our school, our university and ECU Health in conjunction with the ECU Health Foundation celebrated the development of world-class cardiovascular services in #ENC at an event at The Martinsborough. It featured a stirring retrospective that's worth a watch.

Researchers published this hopeful study of a couple of brain receptors. One is the cannabinoid receptor. The other “a signaling partner” that raises oxidative stress. When that one was blocked, the heart and brain were better protected! https://bit.ly/4pYxzms

Why is this family physician calling himself the "poster boy" for the Brody School of Medicine? https://news.ecu.edu/2025/09/30/longtime-family-doctor-and-educator-picked-for-new-dr-james-g-jones-distinguished-professorship/

Over the weekend NC Student National Medical Association chapters mingled in Raleigh at Boxcar Bar + Arcade. Our chapter is pretty active. Give 'em a follow on IG and FB, @BrodySNMA. Way to represent, future physicians!

ECU Pediatrics’ Dr. Maria Alejandra Canas-Galvis is doing a poster presentation at @ameracadpeds.bsky.social in Denver. Check out the release >> https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2025/majority-of-eco-influencer-tiktoks-contain-contradictory-medical-information/
#AAP2025

As #SickleCellAwarenessMonth wraps, some pics from earlier this month at @easternahec and this bit of hope. Standardized order sets and point-of-care tools are prioritizing patients’ pain inside emergency depths, as are their individualized care plans. Ask your provider.

Kudos @Roper_Lab for spending a day last week at @icahnschool sharing your virology research and the development of improved poxvirus-based vaccines for infectious diseases and cancer.

Nominate today! Each year the medical school honors a deserving alumnus at reunion weekend (Nov. 7-8, 2025). Those honorees come from nominations such as yours. Visit https://medicine.ecu.edu/alumni/reunion-weekend/ and visit reunion weekend!

The #BrodyScholars, begun in 1983, has grown to 163 current and former students. ECU grads Gage Outlaw and Alessio Fratarcangeli along with Ben Woodard are this year's. Thank you, Brody family and foundation! https://news.ecu.edu/2025/09/22/brody-foundation-announces-2025-brody-scholars/

ECU is offering several opportunities for students, employees and their family members to receive their annual flu vaccine this fall. Employees must bring their ECU 1 Card, insurance card and banner ID number to any of the four flu shot clinics to receive a FREE FLU SHOT!

Alumni award noms due! Honor a deserving Brody alumnus. Nominations close next Wednesday. Awards presented at reunion weekend, Nov. 7–8. All alumni welcomed, but we’re celebrating Classes of ’25, ‘20, ’15 … on down to 1975. Learn more and nominate! https://medicine.ecu.edu/alumni/reunion-weekend/

The deans of Allied Health Sciences Robert Orlikoff, Dental Medicine Gregory Chadwick, Nursing Bim Akintade, and the medical school, Mike Waldrum and Jason Higginson, along with Laupus Library chief Beth Ketterman (middle), at a board meeting to discuss plans to meet the health care needs of #ENC

Happy Healthcare Simulation Week! September 15-19 celebrates professionals who use simulation to improve the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care delivery and simulation based education. Learn more about our Simulation Center here https://medicine.ecu.edu/clinicalsimulation/

$1.3m for THCAS and us to dispense mental and behavioral health services locally. 4th straight successful HRSA grant app for @eastcarolinauniv and the 10th year for Robert Carels and Marissa Carraway.
https://news.ecu.edu/2025/09/15/grant-supports-community-mental-health-services-student-training/

Corynebacterium are diverse but were thought to be non-pathogenic. Today we know better, says our own Dr. John Markantonis in this minireview in the J of Clinical Microbiology (@asmfan). Clinical microbiology laboratories can spot this tiny threat.
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jcm.01552-24

The fourth Tate Holbrook Sickle Cell Update last week @easternahec was great. One of the themes was empowerment. Patients are much more empowered today ... but the advocacy continues, right Jackie Cannon? #SickleCellAwarenessMonth

Check out the latest bird's eye from the site of our $265m Center for Medical Education Building! Thank you TA Loving, Barnhill, Metcon! (No girders yet but ask our faculty and students if the work isn't _continuous_.)

Congrats to Dr. Todd Savitt, the fourth Charles W. Daeschner III, MD Excellence in Sickle Cell Care award winner. And Jacque Sauls, welcomed into the august Order of the Long Leaf Pine Society by state rep and faculty Dr. Tim Reeder.
#SickleCellAwarenessMonth