ECU Family Medicine

11/14/2025

Family Medicine residents are well represented in the newest ECU Health GME video.

ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University are building the national model for academic rural health care. We invite you to brin...

11/12/2025

It’s National Nurse Practitioner (NP) Week, and we are honored to celebrate our clinics’ nurse practitioners (NPs and FNPs), who provide comprehensive and compassionate care to countless numbers of family medicine patients each year. 🩺🏥

NPs evaluate patients, order and interpret tests, make diagnoses, write prescriptions and bring a comprehensive perspective to health care. Thank you for being a valued member of our clinics and care teams!

11/07/2025

Next up in the series is Devin Cregan, DO! When asked why he picked ECU Family Medicine, Dr. Cregan said, "Growing up in eastern NC, I knew that ECU has an excellent hospital that is always growing and improving. I've always wanted to come back to eastern NC to practice and having the opportunity do residency out here made it an easy choice."

11/03/2025

🎉💚 Congratulations to our Fire Tower Clinic & Team on being recognized for Excellence in Quality Performance by ECU Health Physicians last week!

Providing high-quality care isn’t only a part of our mission, it’s a part of what we do. 💚

10/24/2025

Our next is on Ghada Bedwan, DO! Dr. Bedwan spent a rotation here at ECU Family Medicine as an Acting Intern, and chose to do residency here because she "had such a great month and felt like I got along well with the residents, and could sense a cohesiveness among the residents and faculty as a whole. Additionally, I noticed that a lot of the family medicine program administrators, attending and faculty had been here either for undergrad, med school or residency, or all of the above, and were still here till now, which showed to me that ECU wants to keep its people and that they’re good enough to be kept here, as well as those individuals wanting to stay here."

10/22/2025

This week is National Medical Assistants Week, and we want to celebrate and thank our Medical Assistants and our Med Serve Fellows who work alongside our nurses and providers supporting the needs of our patients before, during, and after their visit. These hard-working and dedicated professionals provide a valuable service to our clinics every day.

10/18/2025

💡Scholarship Spotlight💡

Members of our Behavioral Medicine team joined hundreds from across the country at the 2025 Integrated Care Conference hosted by the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association
in Raleigh, NC this week.

Behavioral Medicine Director & Clinical Associate Professor, Dr. Marissa Carraway, LP, Behavioral Medicine Clinical Assistant Professor, Dr. Patricia Huerta, LMFT, and former Behavioral Medicine Consultant and ECU Health Psychology Doctoral Candidate, Kallie Maloney, MA, presented a podium presentation entitled, “Access in Action: Transforming Healthcare by Training Tomorrow’s Providers.”

Additional faculty from ECU Department of Public Health joined alongside Behavioral Medicine faculty member, Erika Taylor, MS, LMFT-S, and Kallie Maloney, MA, in presenting a poster presentation highlighting the integration of school-based telehealth services in rural school districts across ENC.

Congrats to our behavioral medicine faculty!

Collaborative Family Healthcare Association - CFHA
ECU Department of Public Health

10/16/2025

This week's featured guest speaker Dr. Kelley E. Haven, Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology here at ECU. Her talk was entitled "Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Overview for PCPs."

Thank you for giving an informative presentation, Dr. Haven!

10/13/2025

The second Saturday in October each year marks World Hospice and Palliative Care Day. We would like to honor the incredible work of our own hospice, palliative, and geriatric care teams at ECU Family Medicine. These services provide comfort, dignity, and support to patients and families facing serious illness.
We also celebrate our Fellowship programs, which train future leaders in compassionate, patient-centered care.
https://family-medicine.ecu.edu/fellowships/hospicepalliative/program/

Thank you to our dedicated providers who make a difference every day.

10/08/2025

Congratulations to our very own, Shiv Patil, MD, MPH, BC-ADM, FAAFP, Director of Research & Education at ECU Family Medicine, on being approved for a new research grant in collaboration with East Carolina Diabetes & Obesity Institute!

GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors are approved for type 2 diabetes, but which works better to prevent catastrophic cardiovascular and kidney events? That’s what Dr. Shiv Patil (PI), Family Medicine, and Dr. Beatriz Ramirez (Co-I), Endocrinology, want to know. They were approved for a research grant from Brigham and Women's Hospital to lead the East Carolina University site for the PCORI-funded PRECIDENTD study. A collab w/ East Carolina Diabetes & Obesity Institute.

10/06/2025

It’s Physician Assistant Recognition Week and we are grateful to have 4️⃣ incredible Physician Assistants on our team! Their expertise, compassion, and dedication help keep our ECU and ENC community healthy every day.

Thank you for all you do! 🩺💉

10/01/2025

Proud to call Dr. Edwards one of our own!
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Dr. Justin Edwards is the inaugural Dr. James G. Jones Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine.