👏 Congrats to Ruben A. Mesa, MD, president and executive director of cancer programs at Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute, on being named a University of Illinois 2024 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient. Learn more: bit.ly/3JBIUoq

A new study reveals how #dopamine and #serotonin influence social behavior. Learn more about the study bit.ly/3ViWGDF, which was published in Nature Human Behaviour.

This past Friday, March 1st we hosted our annual Graduate School Research Day event and Open House! At this event we had over 80 student research posters, 14 students compete in a 3 Minute Thesis competition. We look forward to this event each year for everyone to come together!

🏆 Congrats to Terry L. Hales Jr., MBA, executive vice chief academic officer, administration and chief operating officer, Health Sciences System, who was recently named by Becker's Hospital Review as one of “60 academic medical center COOs to know.” bit.ly/3P4cu9d

Our researchers have been awarded $1.5 million from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust and will partner with local non-profit Action4Equity to support community-led efforts to eliminate disparities in outcomes for moms and babies bit.ly/4c01vHw.

'It’s about access and equity.' New obesity medications like #Ozempic are trending in the media, but what about older, generic options like phentermine? Learn more about Kristina Lewis and Jamy D. Ard and their #LEAP research: bit.ly/3Tg18Bm

“To me, #BlackHistoryMonth signifies a miraculous internal flame of joy, perseverance, and love that cannot be extinguished by adversity–only augmented.” - Makell Stephen Brown, first year medical student from Riegelwood, NC.

Latiyuana Thompson is a first year medical student from Winston-Salem, NC: “ #BlackHistoryMonth is a time to intentionally celebrate African-American culture and our ancestors who sacrificed and paved the way for us to be where we are today.”

Funded by a $30 million grant from by the The National Institute on Aging (NIA), a research study on a novel rehabilitation program designed for older patients hospitalized with #heartfailure with preserved ejection fraction expands to @AdvocateHealth. Learn more: bit.ly/42QF2su

There’s also a growing need for improved care and support for people living with #dementia and their caregivers. Our researchers have developed recruitment strategies to be more inclusive of diverse groups to better represent everyone. bit.ly/3UJCA53

Meet Chelsey Wylder, WakePA Class of 2025, “I am incredibly proud to be a first generation college student! It took a lot of sacrifices from my mom, and I love being able to show her that everything she has done for me isn’t going to waste.'

“ #BlackHistoryMonth is a yearly reminder of the remarkable achievements of Black Americans throughout history while also showing us that there is more work to do.” - Terrence Pugh, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation.

A groundbreaking new study in Frontiers shows the successful implementation of a neural prosthetic system that uses a person’s own #memory patterns to facilitate the brain’s ability to encode and recall memory. Learn more: bit.ly/3I1xuth

Meet Sydney Warner, Class of 2027 from Atlanta, GA: “ #BlackHistoryMonth is an opportunity to celebrate, appreciate, and reflect on the successes in my community. It also reminds me of the improvements I hope to see be addressed through my lifetime and beyond.”

Words of wisdom from Jaelen King, MS1, Class of 2027 from Columbia, SC: ' #BlackHistoryMonth is an opportunity to highlight our predecessors in order to inspire ourselves to achieve a better tomorrow.”

👏 Congratulations to Seth Hawkins, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine, who was recently inducted as a fellow of The Explorers Club, which supports #scientific expeditions of all disciplines. bit.ly/4bGBP2z

Researchers at Atrium Health and Atrium HealthWFB were 2️⃣ of 25 medical centers participating in the The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute PREPARE trial, recently published in NEJM. The results could prevent thousands of surgical-site infections each year. Learn more: bit.ly/3HT46VV

Meet Ashley Vines WakePA Class of 2025: ' #BlackHistoryMonth is a time to celebrate Black excellence, culture and joy and honor the inspiring people that came before us. After graduating 🎓 I will be a triple #Deac 🎩 with 3️⃣ master's from @WakeForest!”

As we honor #BlackHistoryMonth , meet Kenysha Clear, PhD Candidate from Providence, RI. She is proud to have an abstract accepted to present her thesis work during the national Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer conference.

#ICYMI : Our faculty Laura Baker, PhD, Gerontology and #Geriatric Medicine, was quoted in Everyday Health about taking a daily #multivitamin to improve #cognitive function. Read more: everydayhealth.com/dementia/can-t…