UNC Family Medicine

09/04/2026

Please note our holiday hours for Monday, September 7th:

The UNC Family Medicine Center at Chapel Hill:
Same-Day Clinic: 8am-12pm
Urgent Care: 12pm-5pm

The UNC Family Medicine Centers at Carraway Village, Durham, and South Durham:
CLOSED

We hope everyone has a fun, safe Labor Day!

09/03/2026

It's been a busy summer, and you haven't heard much from us, so we'd like to kick things back off by letting you all meet the new docs in town - the UNC Family Medicine Residency Class of 2029!

You'll get to know this diverse group of highly skilled doctors from all over the United States in the next three (plus, hopefully!) years.

Pictured from left to right (back row):
Jack O’Hara, MD, MPH; Matthew Hutchens, MD; Cathleen Beliveaau, MD, MPH; William Dabbs, MD; William Zofkie, MD; Alexander Casimir, MD, MPH, MS; Claire Sibold, MD;(front row): Raven Cox, MD, MS; Joy Zhang, MD; Amber Peacock, MD; Brianna Ramirez, MD; Vidhya Suresh, MD; Molly Sohn, MD; and Michelle Moffa, MD! Also welcome to the matriculating Class of 2028 member, Andrea Filozof, MD!

We look forward to growing with and learning from these future leaders in medicine! Let's give these new residents a warm welcome!

07/23/2026

Have you used crisis behavioral health services? Would you like to make changes to North Carolina’s crisis behavioral health system? Participate in our research study by completing a virtual interview lasting 45-60 minutes to tell us about your experience using crisis services. You will receive a gift card if you complete the interview.

Eligibility criteria:
• 18 and older
• Have had experience with mobile crisis, co-response/CIT teams, behavioral health urgent care, facility-based crisis or psychiatric walk-in centers in the last 2 years

If interested, reach out to our team’s email: [email protected] or complete this link to get signed up for an interview: go.unc.edu/NC-Crisis-Study.

For questions or concerns about your rights as a research subject, please contact the Institutional Review Board at 919-966-3113 or by email to [email protected].

06/30/2026

The UNC Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Class of 2026 also graduated this past weekend! Pictured: Fellows Brendon Martin, MD; Hagar Elgendy, MD, MS; and Blake Barton, MD.

The UNC Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship utilizes the extensive local, regional, and national resources of UNC (including the UNC Sports Medicine Institute, UNC Orthopaedics, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, UNC-CH) and our many affiliated institutional, faculty, and staff partners to provide an unsurpassed breadth and depth of Sports Medicine training to physicians from non-surgical specialty backgrounds, preparing our fellows for success in whatever career path they elect to pursue.

UNC Primary Care Sports Medicine operates out of our Durham and Chapel Hill locations. Specializing in non-surgical and minimally invasive treatment modalities, our physicians offer ultrasound-guided injections, cortisone, hyaluronic acid, and platelet-rich plasma, trigger point injections, dislocation and fracture management, and more.

06/29/2026

Congratulations to the UNC Family Medicine Residency Class of 2026, who graduated this past weekend! This group of skilled, compassionate doctors provided full-spectrum care for patients at the UNC Family Medicine Center at Chapel Hill, our Family Medicine Inpatient Service (FMIS) at UNC Health - Hillsborough Campus, our Family Centered Perinatal Care service at the main UNC Hospitals location in Chapel Hill, our Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Track sites at Piedmont Health Services Prospect Hill and Siler City clinics, and more. Many of these doctors will be moving on to other practices, so please wish them well in their new endeavors!

Join us in applauding these future leaders in medicine:
Front row: Anna Gilleskie, MD, MPH; Rikhel Johnson, MD, MPH; Karen Monuszko, MD; Delia LoSapio, MD; Kelley Mark, MD; Leah Hollander, MD, MPH; Caitlyn Syptak, MD. Back Row: Jordan Holmes, DO, MA; Brandon Garcia, MD; Alex Repko, DO; Brian Elgart, MD; Will Garrison, MD; Miles McConner, MD, M.Biol, S.

A new group of residents that you'll get to know just started with us, and we'll also have more from our Sports Medicine Fellowship and Preventive Medicine Residency graduations soon!

06/25/2026

06/22/2026

UNC Family Medicine has received a grant through the UNC System Rural Residency Medical Education and Training Fund to support a new project focused on strengthening rural residency training in agricultural and farmworker health.

The project, North Carolina Rural Residency Training Collaborative for Agricultural Health, is led by Modjulie Moore, MD, Assistant Professor and Medical Director for the North Carolina Farmworker Health Program. It is part of a larger $6.4 million statewide investment supporting rural and interprofessional health training programs across North Carolina.

The new initiative will help build training pathways for residents and providers serving rural communities, with a focus on understanding current and future learning opportunities in agricultural health. The collaborative will also bring forward community-led recommendations to guide training and resources that support providers caring for farmworker and agricultural worker populations across the state.

The work builds on UNC Family Medicine’s longstanding commitment to rural and community-based care, as well as its partnership with the North Carolina Farmworker Health Program, which supports agricultural worker communities through outreach, training, technical assistance, and access to care.

Key partners in the collaborative include the NC Agromedicine Institute, represented by Dawn Caviness, MD, Medical Director; Alyssa Spence, EdD, Executive Director; and McKayla Robinette, MS, along with Kelsey Ross Dew, MPH, CHES, Research Project Manager in UNC Family Medicine, and the NC Department of Health and Human Services Office of Rural Health Farmworker Health Program.

Together, the partners will work to strengthen the rural health workforce and support more informed, community-responsive care for agricultural worker communities in North Carolina.

06/17/2026

We ❤ our Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Track residents and our faculty and colleagues at the best FQHC, Piedmont Health Services!

06/10/2026

We'd like to offer congratulations to Tommy Koonce, MD, MPH, who has been appointed Associate Dean of Admissions for the UNC School of Medicine!

From UNC Family Medicine Chair Margaret Helton, MD:

"It is a pleasure to announce that Thomas Koonce, MD, MPH, has been appointed Associate Dean of Admissions for the UNC School of Medicine, effective July 1, 2026.

As associate dean, Tommy will lead the recruitment, admission, and enrollment of prospective medical students, working closely with colleagues in the Office of Medical Student Education and UNC Chapel Hill. Tommy brings a well-established passion for medical student education to the position, and an understanding of the needs of the state and nation regarding medical training. He has a deep commitment to the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead Scholar as an undergraduate, attended medical school, and now serves as a professor in our department.

Tommy will continue his role as Associate Chief Medical Officer for outpatient services for the UNC Faculty Practice. He will also continue to lead our department’s nationally acclaimed Faculty Development Fellowship and will continue to see patients in the family medicine center.

Please join me in congratulating Tommy on this appointment. He will bring leadership and perspective to medical school admissions and to the future of our medical student community.

Sincerely,
Margaret Helton, MD
William B. Aycock Distinguished Professor & Chair"

06/05/2026

UNC Family Medicine will help lead a new effort to improve care for patients with complex health and social needs through the Bridge to Health initiative.

Supported by a $1.3 million grant from The Duke Endowment to the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health, the pilot program will expand hospital-based transitional clinics and strengthen partnerships among health systems, primary care providers, and community organizations.

Led at UNC by Timothy Daaleman, DO, MPH, the initiative also includes Marni Holder, MSN, RN, director of community health initiatives, and Tim Smith, MPA, who bring extensive experience in community partnerships, program development, and care coordination for vulnerable populations.

Through Bridge to Health, UNC will support patients after hospitalization by addressing acute medical, behavioral health, and social needs while connecting them to ongoing care and community-based resources.

Read more at go.unc.edu/BridgetoHealth