A TOUGH SWAB

CYNTHIA LEE, DNP

The work Cynthia Lee and the staff of Campbell Health Clinic performed in January was crucial to the University’s efforts to conduct in-person classes and on-the-field athletics in 2021. From the moment the University learned of its first positive COVID-19 case on March 12, 2020, through the administering of its first vaccines to local residents nearly a year later, Lee and the team at the Campbell Health Center have conducted thousands of tests in the Campbell community and in Harnett County.

That’s meant thousands of nose swabs. Thousands of anxious minutes between tests and results. And while the positive rates on campus were been relatively low compared to other institutions, Lee delivered more than her fair share of bad news to those who were found to have the virus.

Much of Lee’s work for the past year has been performed in a brown and tan one-room aluminum “shed” full of personal protective equipment, filing cabinets and testing kits. She came to Campbell in May 2019, less than a year before the pandemic turned the world upside down. While her job currently isn’t what she expected then, she said she feels like this was a calling.

members of the med school’s graduating class this year matched into residency programs in the U.S. Armed Forces in January.

Cape Fear Growth

Cape Fear Valley Health broke ground on Jan. 14 on a state-of-the-art education and research center for medical residency programs that will benefit Campbell University medical students for generations to come.

The Center for Medical Education & Research and Neuroscience Institute will span five floors and 120,000 square feet and will include lecture halls, classrooms and simulations labs to provide resident medical students with hands-on, applied learning with sophisticated technology. The facility will open this summer.

“This new facility will be transformative in the way our medical students and residents are trained to serve patients in the Cape Fear Valley system,” said Campbell President J. Bradley Creed.

Cape Fear Valley is one of the six hospitals partnered with Campbell’s School of Osteopathic Medicine’s post-graduate residency programs. It offers residencies for Campbell students in emergency medicine, internal medicine, cardiology, OB/ GYN, surgery, psychiatry and transitional year training.