About

Dr. Westmoreland is a general pediatrician, pediatric hematologist oncologist, and clinician scientist. As a general pediatrician she specializes in the unique care of individuals with Down syndrome and is the medical director of the UNC Down syndrome program. She spent nearly a decade living in sub-Saharan Africa providing both general pediatrics and specialty hematology oncology care to her patients. She is a NIH-funded clinician scientists who researches patient reported outcomes and chemotherapy toxicity in unique patient populations, including Burkitt lymphoma patients in Africa and Down syndrome patients in the USA.

Awards and Honors

• Pope Clinical Trainee Award, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2018
• Best Global Capacity Building Poster – American Society of Hematology (ASH) Meeting, 2018
• Best Case Report – UNC Day of Scholarship, 2018
• International Society for Pediatric Oncology (SIOP) – Best poster in section, 2017
• Fifth International Symposium on Childhood Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma – Best poster at conference, 2015
• Mead Johnson Travel Award, 2012
• Western Society for Clinical Investigation Travel Award, 2011
• Dr. Sergio Huerta Resident Research Award, 2011
• International Elective Award, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2011
• Spirit of Residency Award, 2011
• Resident of the Year, Primary Children’s Medical Center, 2011
• Pediatric Global Health Resident Travel Award, 2011
• R.W. Pritchard History of Medicine Award, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2009
• Wake Forest University School of Medicine International Service Scholarship, 2006, 2009
• Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, 2009

In the news

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  NIH grant expands capacity to train emerging cancer researchers in Malawi

    A five-year training grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute expands the capacity of UNC’s Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to train the next generation of cancer researchers in Malawi, Africa. The Malawi Cancer Outcomes Research Program, or M-CORP, includes funding for advanced degree … Read more

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  Malawi-based team receives $500,000 to improve capacity for sickle cell care, research

    A team of researchers led by UNC Project-Malawi has received a one-year, $500,000 grant to build clinical and research capacity in Malawi to better diagnose and treat children with sickle cell disease. The funding is a joint award from the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious … Read more

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  In memoriam: UNC Project-Malawi colleagues pay tribute to Dr. Peter Kazembe

  Our dear friend, Dr. Peter Kazembe, a Malawian colleague, pediatrician and adjunct professor of medicine with the University of North Carolina’s Institute for Global Health and Infection Diseases, died on August 11, 2020 at the age of 65 while receiving treatment for cancer in South Africa. He is survived by his wife, Hilda, and three … Read more

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  Institute research sampling, 2018-2020

  By the spring of 2020, the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic caused many researchers affiliated with UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases to pivot their studies to focus on testing, treatment and prevention of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Here, a look at some of the projects underway in the last two years.   Development … Read more

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