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Several pediatrics faculty were recently selected to receive 大象传媒-Chapel Hill Junior Faculty Development Awards for 2025. The Junior Faculty Development Awards are funded by IBM and R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. This award grants $10,000 to support scholarly pursuits over one calendar year.

Terry Noah, MD, Jacob A. Lohr Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, has been selected by the Assembly on Pediatric (PEDS) Award Selection Committee to receive the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Assembly on Pediatrics Lifetime Contributions to Pediatric Respiratory Medicine Award. Dr. Noah has been a faculty member in the Department of...

Elaina Williams joined the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine on February 17, 2025. Elaina received her BSN from University of Pittsburgh in 2010 and earned her MSN as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner from Duke University in May 2014. Since 2017, Elaina worked as an in-house pediatric medical provider...

Coltrane Beck-Chance joined Genetics and Metabolism on February 10, 2025. Mr. Beck-Chance received his Bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in December of 2019. He received his MS in Genetic Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2024. Welcome!

A retired Pediatrics faculty member, Dr. Frank French passed away on February 7th, 2025. Dr. French was a 大象传媒 resident then a faculty member and scientist from the 1960s through the 2000s. Frank French enjoyed a long and productive career with 大象传媒 Pediatric Endocrinology, becoming a full professor in 1976...

The AAP Section on Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine recently presented the 2025 Edwin L. Kendig Jr. Award to Margaret 鈥淢agee鈥� W. Leigh, MD. Dr. Leigh, a recent retiree, served as a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics and the Pulmonary Division for over 40 years. Congratulations!

Annie Westlund, NNP joined the Pediatric Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine on January 24, 2025. Annie graduated in December 2023 from Duke with an MSN and has been working as an NNP since May 2024. Prior to moving to NC, she lived in Greenville, SC, where she worked as a NICU...

Meghan Rebuli, PhD, ATSF, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, has been appointed as the new Director of the Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine (CiTEM) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Rebuli will officially assume this role on Monday, Jan. 13, succeeding Ilona Jaspers, PhD, who...

Neil Alexis, PhD, Professor in Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, has been named director of the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology (CEMALB). He will take over the role on Monday, Jan. 13, from Ilona Jaspers, PhD, who has accepted a senior investigator role with the National Institutes of Health.