Family Medicine
UNC Family Medicine is dedicated to transforming the health care system to work better for everyone, including patients, physicians, employers, and the nation. As a top-ranked Family Medicine Department in the US, we have proven success in innovation, education, and relevant research. Imagine how your gift will meaningfully advance the goals of reducing patient suffering and provider burnout, improve the health of thousands of all ages, and address some of the greatest challenges in health care.
Support the Department of Family Medicine
Family Medicine Fund
Your gift is used where it is needed the most in support of highly promising and innovative opportunities in patient care, research, medical education, and community service. Gifts to the Family Medicine Fund have repeatedly been the difference maker by allowing the Department to quickly and efficiently leverage other funding and respond to new opportunities to transform health care.
Family Medicine Residents Fund
There is a pressing national need for well-trained primary care physicians. You can support high value opportunities for residents with no other funding sources such as educational opportunities, the annual resident retreat, enhanced training courses, technology improvements, innovations proposed by residents, and the development of novel faculty-led curriculum to prepare graduates for emerging clinical venues.
Family Medicine Research Fund
Your gift will support our nationally-recognized faculty conducting leading research in evidence-based practice, practice transformation, and health policy. Your support could lead to new, innovative, and high-risk areas that warrant larger federal and foundation funding or actionable new practices.
Contact Us
Should you have any questions or would like to discuss your support, please contact:
Jen Bowman
Interim Senior Executive Director of Development, Advancing Health
jennifer_bowman@med.unc.edu
919-966-0600
Latest News
View All
By Bobby Hundley, UNC Health Foundation Elizabeth and Trevor Casey met in 2012 and began dating soon after. The couple got married while in graduate school in 2016 and knew that they wanted to start a family as soon as … Read more At UNC Health, our more than 40,000 doctors, nurses, clinicians, researchers and staff members are committed to serving the people of North Carolina, improving health outcomes both here in our state and around the world. And that commitment extends beyond … Read more Mackenzie says that spending the holidays in the burn ICU because her 1-year-old daughter had second- and third-degree burns was not on her bingo card. But that is what happened. The holidays are a special time, but for families with … Read more This story – which includes discussion of issues related to mental health and suicide – was written before Hurricane Helene brought widespread destruction and even greater mental health challenges to Western North Carolina. In the aftermath of the storm, mental … Read more CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The UNC Health Foundation Board of Directors unanimously approved a $2.5 million investment in the UNC Health Employee Assistance Fund in response to the ongoing crisis in western North Carolina. The board approved the immediate transfer … Read more
Casey Family Establishes UNC Fertility Fund
UNC Health FoodWell Celebrates Official Launch
Donors Bring Families to Tears of Gratitude with the Holiday Toy Store
Elmore Family Endows Fund for Mental Health in Western North Carolina
UNC Health Foundation Board of Directors Approves $2.5 Million for UNC Health Teammates