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Five tips for surviving the holidays


Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz, an expert in anxiety disorders and professor of psychiatry and psychology at Carolina, offers five tips for coping with holiday-related stress.

“We don’t have to like the holidays, and they might not be stress free, but going into them thinking, ‘This is temporary, I can get through this,’ instead of “Oh, God, this is going to be awful,’ prepares you to get through them,” Abramowitz says. read more
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An expert on new digital mammography techniques that can be used to possibly save more women from breast cancer,  Etta Pisano, M.D. directs UNC-Chapel Hill's breast imaging lab and is conversant on the latest treatment strategies. Find more experts

Home arrow Health & Medicine arrow Dedication of the UNC McAllister Heart Institute marks new era in heart research
Dedication of the UNC McAllister Heart Institute marks new era in heart research E-mail
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Hugh “Chip” McAllister, M.D., an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, has made a three-part gift to establish the UNC McAllister Heart Institute.

An official ceremony celebrating the gift was held today (Nov. 4, 2009) at UNC.

Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, UNC’s chief of cardiology and director of the Institute, says the McAllister gift, which formally changes the name of the Carolina Cardiovascular Biology Center, acknowledges the excellence in research and clinical care at UNC and will help the program expand its depth and breadth. For full release