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25700
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Dr. Randolph W. Chitwood, Jr. chairs the Department of Surgery at the East Carolina University School of Medicine and Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Chitwood has built the cardiovascular surgery program from the ground up, and has become an international pioneer in minimally invasive heart surgery with the use of robotics.
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36274
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Medical advancements possible over the next decade included cryopreservation, controlling prosthetic limbs with the mind, and nanotechnology. Areas projected for improvement or further development over the next ten years included gene therapy, noninvasive technology, and cure of Dementia diseases. As for an area the author acknowledges is not clear, it involves medical ethics: when to cease providing procedures, especially where age is concerned.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 36 Issue 2, February 2016,
p52-57
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25773
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Exercise is usually the solution to what ails us, but researchers in the Human Performance Laboratory, a partner with the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, what to make sure we know how exercise works, what works best, and how much is too much.
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36049
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Talent was present; absent was funding. In a campus meeting, Senator Burr heralded Johnson and Johnson’s offer to help ECU fulfill medical missions like curing diabetes. A research university springing from a teacher’s training school, then, may seem off the beaten path. Realizing this intent—improving the quality of life—made it obvious ECU has stayed on course.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 5 Issue 3, Spring 2007,
p12-17
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25846
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Doctors, at the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, in physiology and emergency medicine have shown some success in using stem cells to restore sensory function and reduce pain after spinal cord injuries in mice.
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8607
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In the spring of 1977, after twelve years of planning and preliminary accreditations, East Carolina University was approved for the enrollment of its first four-year medical class. Approval was granted by the joint accrediting agency of the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges. The first class of twenty-eight students will begin on the Greenville campus in August 1977. The curriculum will emphasize family practice. Dr. William E. Laupus is the dean of the East Carolina University School of Medicine.
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31601
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East Carolina University, after twelve years of planning and preliminary accreditations, was approved this spring for the enrollment of its first four-year medical class. Dr. William E. Laupus, dean of the School of Medicine, believes the family medicine program will be one of the school’s strongest assets and offer the training needed to prepare doctors for rural medical practices.
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8432
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The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University opened in 1977. Its mission is to train North Carolina residents to become family doctors in the eastern section of the state. When the medical school opened, fewer than 800 family doctors practiced east of I-95. Tyrrell County did not have a doctor, and Camden County had only one. Today there are over 1,600 primary care physicians practicing in the east. Over one-fourth of them are Brody graduates. Row discusses the work of some of the doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals that the Brody School graduates who are improving the lives of small-town families.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 5 Issue 2, Winter 2007,
p12-17, il, por
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24170
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W. Randolf Chitwood, Jr. is a cardiothoracic surgeon who many believe is the best when it comes to using highly technical equipment to conduct various heart surgeries. The author discusses his experience having heart surgery and how Greenville, North Carolina became an important medical research hub.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 28 Issue 7, July 2008,
p72-81, il
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25603
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To follow suit with recent studies that show effective communication among health care providers as an aid in reducing preventable medical errors, East Carolina’s Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School encourages inter-professional education in the curriculum.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 12 Issue 1, Fall 2013,
p26-31
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