Brody School of Medicine at ECU
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Earn an M.D. at one of the nation's top medical schools for primary care training. At the Brody School of Medicine, students pursue their passion for medicine and physician leadership while accumulating a low four-year debt load on average.
MedPals, the reigning @eastcarolina Educational Program of the Year award winner, hosted a MedVentures event here today with Ayden-Grifton, Farmville Central, Greene Central, J.H. Rose and North Pitt.
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
MedPals, the reigning @eastcarolina Educational Program of the Year award winner, hosted a MedVentures event here today with Ayden-Grifton, Farmville Central, Greene Central, J.H. Rose and North Pitt.
Thank you Henry Hinton - Talk of the Town for inviting our own Executive Dean Jason Higginson on this Veterans Day week to talk about his service in the U.S. Navy and his retirement at the end of this month at the rank of Captain. We're pretty proud of him, his service and his leadership.
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Thank you Henry Hinton - Talk of the Town for inviting our own Executive Dean Jason Higginson on this Veterans Day week to talk about his service in the U.S. Navy and his retirement at the end of this month at the rank of Captain. We're pretty proud of him, his service and his leadership.
Our Executive Dean Jason Higginson soon retires from the U.S. Navy after 26 years at the rank of Captain. Here, he reflects on values such as mission, honor, integrity, service and recognition that guide his leadership of our school with WCTI News 12. https://bit.ly/4qS7Axb
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Our Executive Dean Jason Higginson soon retires from the U.S. Navy after 26 years at the rank of Captain. Here, he reflects on values such as mission, honor, integrity, service and recognition that guide his leadership of our school with WCTI News 12. https://bit.ly/4qS7Axb
Congrats, Elody Bensch, doctoral candidate in Dr. Morgan Milton's lab, GRAND CHAMPION of @eastcarolinauniv.bsky.social's 12th Three-Minute Thesis competition. She'll rep ECU at the regionals in Baton Rouge. And bravo Daniel Stevens, People's Choice winner! https://bit.ly/3JULycz
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Congrats, Elody Bensch, doctoral candidate in Dr. Morgan Milton's lab, GRAND CHAMPION of @eastcarolinauniv.bsky.social's 12th Three-Minute Thesis competition. She'll rep ECU at the regionals in Baton Rouge. And bravo Daniel Stevens, People's Choice winner! https://bit.ly/3JULycz
Generous donors and scholarship students celebrated the gift of encouragement, of hope, of community, and yes, of lower student debt load at the ECU Health Foundation 2025 scholarship luncheon today at Eastern AHEC. “We all are the recipients of someone else's generosity," said Dr. Mary Raab.
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Generous donors and scholarship students celebrated the gift of encouragement, of hope, of community, and yes, of lower student debt load at the ECU Health Foundation 2025 scholarship luncheon today at Eastern AHEC. “We all are the recipients of someone else's generosity," said Dr. Mary Raab.
Drs. Mark and Suzanne Hess met at the medical school in the 80s. Their son, Justin, met his wife, Aubrey Allen, here, too. You'd be surprised how many matches are made by Match Day. Alumni weekend kicks off tomorrow! https://bit.ly/3JjDdiA
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Drs. Mark and Suzanne Hess met at the medical school in the 80s. Their son, Justin, met his wife, Aubrey Allen, here, too. You'd be surprised how many matches are made by Match Day. Alumni weekend kicks off tomorrow! https://bit.ly/3JjDdiA
CHEERS to all the years of Brody School of Medicine alumni joining us for Reunion 2025 🎉 - ’75, ’82, ’85, ’86, ’87, ’89, ’90, ’95, ’96, ’00, ’10, ’13, ’15, ’16 and ’20. The prescription for a great time is here. 🩺
November 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
CHEERS to all the years of Brody School of Medicine alumni joining us for Reunion 2025 🎉 - ’75, ’82, ’85, ’86, ’87, ’89, ’90, ’95, ’96, ’00, ’10, ’13, ’15, ’16 and ’20. The prescription for a great time is here. 🩺
Jackson Poulnott got to perform a punch biopsy and suture it under the supervision of Dr. Michael Lincoln at his preceptorship this month in Anson Co. “I have worked with [him] since ’19, and our plan is for me to return home and inherit the clinic. ... This is the community that helped raise me.”
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Jackson Poulnott got to perform a punch biopsy and suture it under the supervision of Dr. Michael Lincoln at his preceptorship this month in Anson Co. “I have worked with [him] since ’19, and our plan is for me to return home and inherit the clinic. ... This is the community that helped raise me.”
500 ECU students including our future physicians were inspiring by this deep-dive interprofessional event celebrating housekeepers. They are some of the most dedicated and unsung members of the patient care team. We see you! 🌟 #FutureHealthcareLeaders https://bit.ly/47wBTRl
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
500 ECU students including our future physicians were inspiring by this deep-dive interprofessional event celebrating housekeepers. They are some of the most dedicated and unsung members of the patient care team. We see you! 🌟 #FutureHealthcareLeaders https://bit.ly/47wBTRl
M2 Angie Gibson drove to what may be the most remote clinic in the state for her preceptorship at Ocracoke Health Center. “I come from Iron Station, [and] my family didn’t always have health insurance. I know firsthand how rural areas suffer when it comes to health care.”
October 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
M2 Angie Gibson drove to what may be the most remote clinic in the state for her preceptorship at Ocracoke Health Center. “I come from Iron Station, [and] my family didn’t always have health insurance. I know firsthand how rural areas suffer when it comes to health care.”
💜💛 Don’t miss your chance to be part of the pulse of Brody!
Register for the Brody Alumni Reunion Weekend (Nov. 7-8, 2025).
A reunion without you and your classmates just doesn’t have the right heartbeat. 💓 🩺
Don’t skip a beat - register today at https://medicine.ecu.edu/alumni/
Register for the Brody Alumni Reunion Weekend (Nov. 7-8, 2025).
A reunion without you and your classmates just doesn’t have the right heartbeat. 💓 🩺
Don’t skip a beat - register today at https://medicine.ecu.edu/alumni/
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
💜💛 Don’t miss your chance to be part of the pulse of Brody!
Register for the Brody Alumni Reunion Weekend (Nov. 7-8, 2025).
A reunion without you and your classmates just doesn’t have the right heartbeat. 💓 🩺
Don’t skip a beat - register today at https://medicine.ecu.edu/alumni/
Register for the Brody Alumni Reunion Weekend (Nov. 7-8, 2025).
A reunion without you and your classmates just doesn’t have the right heartbeat. 💓 🩺
Don’t skip a beat - register today at https://medicine.ecu.edu/alumni/
Dr. Jennifer Stahl is our latest Mission Champion. “Our mission as Brody physicians is to deliver expert health care to eastern North Carolina while simultaneously teaching the future physicians of our community. We’re all mission champions here at Brody," she said.
October 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Dr. Jennifer Stahl is our latest Mission Champion. “Our mission as Brody physicians is to deliver expert health care to eastern North Carolina while simultaneously teaching the future physicians of our community. We’re all mission champions here at Brody," she said.
Well done, Alessio! The Brody Scholars program was created through gifts from the Brody family and the Brody Foundation. Since the program began in 1983, 163 medical students have received the award. Thank you, Brodys!
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Well done, Alessio! The Brody Scholars program was created through gifts from the Brody family and the Brody Foundation. Since the program began in 1983, 163 medical students have received the award. Thank you, Brodys!
Our Center for Medical Education (coming in '27) will have 360-degree screens in the Learning Studio and a WhiteBox simulation room. Students, picture yourself here! Thanks Golden LEAF Foundation. Huge investment in physician learning in #ENC. More here >> https://bit.ly/4oCeiFY
October 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our Center for Medical Education (coming in '27) will have 360-degree screens in the Learning Studio and a WhiteBox simulation room. Students, picture yourself here! Thanks Golden LEAF Foundation. Huge investment in physician learning in #ENC. More here >> https://bit.ly/4oCeiFY
Thanks WITN for the coverage. It's going toward 360-screens and WhiteBox simulation in the Learning Center. Amazing ed tech for our medical students!! https://bit.ly/42VFWVP
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Thanks WITN for the coverage. It's going toward 360-screens and WhiteBox simulation in the Learning Center. Amazing ed tech for our medical students!! https://bit.ly/42VFWVP
Students from Camp Schreiber made the trip from Wilmington at the invitation of Brody Scholar Hailey Lewis (M2) for a field day that included sim lab exercises, med ed, and a visit to the East Care helipad. Lots of M2s helped. Loved having you Schreibers!
October 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Students from Camp Schreiber made the trip from Wilmington at the invitation of Brody Scholar Hailey Lewis (M2) for a field day that included sim lab exercises, med ed, and a visit to the East Care helipad. Lots of M2s helped. Loved having you Schreibers!
For his preceptorship, Tim Patron worked under Dr. David Gilbert last week at AccessMedicine in Williamston, a majority-minority city of about 5,000 where 3 in 10 are on Medicaid or Medicare. Tim wants to be a Family Medicine physician.
October 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
For his preceptorship, Tim Patron worked under Dr. David Gilbert last week at AccessMedicine in Williamston, a majority-minority city of about 5,000 where 3 in 10 are on Medicaid or Medicare. Tim wants to be a Family Medicine physician.
A Brody Scholar financial award comes out to about $118,000 per student over four years of medical school. Congrats, Gage, and thank you Brody family!
October 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A Brody Scholar financial award comes out to about $118,000 per student over four years of medical school. Congrats, Gage, and thank you Brody family!
Congrats M2s on wrapping up your preceptorship week! Here's Brody Scholar Rebecca Cloninger with OBGYN Dr. Natalie Broadway (Brody CO '19) at Catawba Valley Medical Center. "I saw more than 40 women ... all of whom had an amazing relationship with their OBGYN!"
October 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Congrats M2s on wrapping up your preceptorship week! Here's Brody Scholar Rebecca Cloninger with OBGYN Dr. Natalie Broadway (Brody CO '19) at Catawba Valley Medical Center. "I saw more than 40 women ... all of whom had an amazing relationship with their OBGYN!"
Thank you, Brody Foundation, and way to go Ben! More than 70% of Brody Scholars remain in North Carolina to practice, a majority of those in #ENC.
October 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Thank you, Brody Foundation, and way to go Ben! More than 70% of Brody Scholars remain in North Carolina to practice, a majority of those in #ENC.
Tick tock, tick tock. We're less than a month away from Alumni Reunion, celebrating milestone classes of 1975, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020. Seats are filling up like a lecture hall on exam day! Register >> medicine.ecu.edu/alumni
October 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Tick tock, tick tock. We're less than a month away from Alumni Reunion, celebrating milestone classes of 1975, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020. Seats are filling up like a lecture hall on exam day! Register >> medicine.ecu.edu/alumni
TY The Robesonian for highlighting our #EarlyAssurance partner #UNCPembroke. We recruit the brightest in #ENC for world-class medical training, producing primary care physicians for North Carolina. That's our distinctive culture, _servire_. https://bit.ly/3KG3fNb
October 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
TY The Robesonian for highlighting our #EarlyAssurance partner #UNCPembroke. We recruit the brightest in #ENC for world-class medical training, producing primary care physicians for North Carolina. That's our distinctive culture, _servire_. https://bit.ly/3KG3fNb
Teaching is our why. Here are two of the greats, Drs. Benjamin Degner, the new Travis and Cassandra Burt Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences, and Dr. Wiley Nifong, inaugural Dr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Privette Distinguished Professor of Cardiac Surgery. TY Burt and Privette families!
October 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Teaching is our why. Here are two of the greats, Drs. Benjamin Degner, the new Travis and Cassandra Burt Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences, and Dr. Wiley Nifong, inaugural Dr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Privette Distinguished Professor of Cardiac Surgery. TY Burt and Privette families!
Which works better to prevent catastrophic cardiovascular and kidney events in type 2 patients, GLP-1 receptor agonists or SGLT2 inhibitors? Dr. Shiv Patil and Dr. Beatriz Ramirez want to know, and they just got research $$$ from @brighamandwomens.bsky.social for the PCORI-funded PRECIDENTD study.
October 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Which works better to prevent catastrophic cardiovascular and kidney events in type 2 patients, GLP-1 receptor agonists or SGLT2 inhibitors? Dr. Shiv Patil and Dr. Beatriz Ramirez want to know, and they just got research $$$ from @brighamandwomens.bsky.social for the PCORI-funded PRECIDENTD study.
Recently our school, our university and ECU Health in conjunction with the ECU Health Foundation celebrated the development of world-class cardiovascular services in #ENC at an event at The Martinsborough. It featured a stirring retrospective that's worth a watch.
Celebrating 40 Years of Cardiovascular Sciences at East Carolina University and ECU Health
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October 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Recently our school, our university and ECU Health in conjunction with the ECU Health Foundation celebrated the development of world-class cardiovascular services in #ENC at an event at The Martinsborough. It featured a stirring retrospective that's worth a watch.