A new academic year has just begun, with a new group of students.
And we have a new group of leaders for the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health Care.
Not everyone is new, to be sure, but we’ve tapped some new leaders and moved others into new roles and new titles.
• Marschall Runge, MD, PhD, is [...]

Several weeks ago, UNC Health Care was honored to be the site of the most recent HealthLeaders Rounds event on women’s health. Participants included our own Drs. Daniel Clarke-Pearson and Nancy Chescheir, Mary Anne Graf from Bon Secours Richmond and Sue Korth from Methodist Women’s Hospital in Omaha. The half-day panel discussion was shared with [...]

Yesterday our university got a new president-elect, Tom Ross of Davidson, N.C.
The governing board of the UNC System, which has 17 campuses, including this one in Chapel Hill, elected him officially yesterday.
Ross is currently the president of Davidson College — and he has deep roots in our state and its leadership.
I believe he will be [...]

Because of several unrelated developments, we have the opportunity to reload the senior ranks of the UNC School of Medicine.

I welcome this — and see it as a chance for us to prepare ourselves and the institution for the next phase of our work together.

I’m sending a few more photos of our trip while we are waiting in the Brussels Airport.
This is of Will making bricks at the Dufatanye Co-op.

Will with the pitcher he made at the Co-op.

The entrance to the faculty of medicine (the med school) at the National University of Rwanda in Butare.

The rector of NUR (our [...]

This may be my last blog entry written from Rwanda. It has been a simply fabulous trip in every respect.
Will and I are the Hotel des Mille Collines, made famous by the film, “Hotel Rwanda.” It is a very nice upscale hotel. We stopped here because we are early for the airport, [...]

I had a very pleasant weekend in Kigali and beyond.
One of the places I saw was the Hotel des Milles Collines, which was featured in the film “Hotel Rwanda.”
On Saturday evening, I had a dinner meeting with the leader of the Anglican Church in Rwanda, Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini and several others. Our church in [...]

Today I had a very helpful meeting with Dr. Patrick Kyamanywa, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Rwanda. The med school is in Butare, where I will be in a few days, but he and I met in Kigali.
Patrick is a surgeon, with an active medical practice, who [...]

Today I had the privilege of meeting with several health leaders here in Kigali.
I was introduced to them via my friend, Nathan Thielman, MD, who is a faculty member at Duke Med School. Nathan is an internist who does work in infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, and global health.
I visited with two Ob/Gyn physicians [...]

I spent two days at the remote and idyllic Shyira Hospital.
In many respects they lack much of what we take for granted in the US — for example, they only have electricity for two hours each evening, when the generator is running.
But in other respects, they have so much that we lack — [...]