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Dolly Penn, MD wins Award at NCPHA

NCNC congratulates Dolly Penn, MD for her  presentation, Evaluating a Group Based Lifestyle Modification Program: The Raleigh Wellness Project, winning an award for Academic Practice-Based Research (APBR) at the Fall North Carolina Public Health Association Meeting in Winston-Salem. The North

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Tamera Coyne-Beasley elected President-Elect of SAHM

Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH, FAAP, FSAHM elected President-Elect of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine Jan 15,2016 — The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) is an international multidisciplinary organization committed to improving the physical and psychosocial health

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Alexa Waters’ poster won the student competition at the NCAFP

Alexa Waters, a medical student at UNC and a Primary Care and Population Health (PCPH) Scholar, has been working with NCNC on the Monitor Trial.  Her poster presenting her work has won the student competition at the NC Academy of

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Collaboration to Improve Blood Pressure in the U.S. Black Belt

September 28, 2015 UNC Part of Collaborative Receiving Large Award to Reduce Health Disparities in Rural South Researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, in partnership with

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Duke Physicians Accepted to Certificate Program in PBRN Methods

Congratulations to Duke Physicians Alex Cho, MD, MBA (GIM) and to Brian Eichner, MD (Pediatrics), who have been accepted to the Certificate Program in Practice-Based Research Methods. This training program begins now through June 2016 and seeks to develop a new generation of

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Duke, UNC and Vanderbuilt University Form the NIDA CTN Mid-Southern Node

Congratulations to researchers from Duke, UNC, and Vanderbuilt University on being funded by NIDA on Sept 15, 2015 to form the Clinical Trials Network Mid-Southern Node NCNC looks forward to a rich and rewarding collaboration that will improve outcomes for

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UNC Receives $15M AHRQ Award to Advance Heart Health in NC Primary Care

Chapel Hill NC (May 26, 2015) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a cooperative team of health care and quality improvement experts were recently awarded a $15M federal grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and

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NAPCRG PBRNS conference – NCNC presentations

NCNC is proud to announce the abstracts to be presented at the Annual North American Primary Care Research Group’s (NAPCRG) Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) Conference on June 29 and 30 in Bethesda. This year’s conference theme is: engagement of communities

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Upcoming NAPCRG Practice Based Research Conference

The NAPCRG Practice Based Research Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda on June 29 and 30. This year’s conference theme is ENGAGEMENT of communities of practice based research networks, patients, clinicians and practices. NCNC has submitted abstracts

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NCNC Gives Back

      NCNC is supporting Piedmont Health Services and UNC-PN in improving the self-management of their diabetic patients by distributing the Living with Diabetes/Viviendo con Diabetes guides. Andrea Wallace from the University of Iowa came to the 2014 NCNC

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