The UNC Transition interdisciplinary team is composed of enthusiastic and dedicated members whose goal is to improve patients' health outcomes with evidenced based information. The members of this team include patients, coordinators, nurses, social workers, educators, psychologists, pharmacists, public health scientists, recreational therapists, adolescent specialists, students of several disciplines, dieticians, administrators, computer scientists and physicians. We have established collaborations that go beyond the walls of our institution and welcome interested researchers to join our team.
The #1 team member in our group is the adolescent. This program has been built with the input of all the adolescents and their families who participate.
This page is still under construction.
Email: Kristi_Bickford@med.unc.edu
Phone: 919.966.2561 x246
Fax: 919.966.4251
Office: 7032-B Burnett Womack Bldg
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Kristi Bickford
Adolescent Transition Coordinator
Specialty Areas: Adolescent transition coordination of patients with chronic health conditions; patient and family support, education, and resource coordination; liaison between adolescent patients and their health care providers.
Chronology: 2001: Graduate of Univ. of North Carolina - Wilmington (BA); 2001-2003: Intensive Aftercare Juvenile Counselor for the Maryland Dept. of Juvenile Justice; 2003-2006: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Lead Case Manager for children and adolescents; 2006 - present: Adolescent Transition Coordinator at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. |
E-mail: maria_ferris@med.unc.edu
Phone: (919) 966-2561 x237
Fax: (919) 966-4251
Office Location: 7021 Burnett-Womack
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Maria Ferris, MD, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Specialty Areas: Renal epidemiology; early markers of adult kidney disease
Chronology: MD: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1983; MPH; University of Texas, 1985; PhD: University of Texas, 2006
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Email:lynn_mccoy@med.unc.edu
Phone: (919) 966-2561 x244
Fax: (919) 966-4251
Office: 7015c Burnett Womack
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Lynn Woodall McCoy, RN, CNN
Pediatric Nephrology Care Coordinator
Specialty Areas: Nephrology Nursing in areas of pre- and post transplantation; patient and family education; outreacha nd support of community care providers.
Chronology: 1979: Graduate of Lenoir Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Kinston, North Carolina;1979-1983: Emergency nursing at LMH and UNC Hospitals, MICN and ACLS certified (currently expired);1983-1985:Staff nurse with the American Red Cross Blood Services in both Durham and Wilmington, NC locations; 1985- 1989: Hemodialysis staff nurse and supervisor of the inpatient acute dialysis unit at UNC Hospitals;1989 to present: Certified Nephrology Nurse via the American Nephrology Nursing Association;1989-2005:Transplant Nurse Coordinator at UNC Hospitals;2005- present: Pediatric Nephrology Nurse Care Coordinator
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