Carol Woods’ Physicians

Physician services for Carol Woods’ residents are provided through a contract with the Department of Aging of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  All physicians are Board Certified in Geriatrics and in Internal Medicine, except Dr. Helton, who is Board Certified in Geriatrics and in Family Medicine.  The physicians see residents in the Clinic by appointment and in the Health Center, as needed.  The physicians take turns being on call for our residents, so that we have access to a Carol Woods’ physician 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Jan Busby Whitehead,  MD
Serves as Liaison and Manager of the Contract between Carol Woods and UNC, former Medical Director of Carol Woods from 1994- 2007

Serves as a partner in the Carol Woods sponsored Community Connections program

Currently: Professor and Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine; Director, Program on Aging and Health, UNC-CH; Director & Principal Investigator, Geriatric Education Center, UNC-CH

Previously: Assistant Professor of Medicine, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Special Interest: Dir. UNC Continence Clinic & Chair, Urinary Incontinence Research & Practice Group, UNC
Was chosen to receive Southern Gerontological Society’s Best Practices Award in 2000 in recognition of  sustained and significant work on behalf of older adults in NC

Education: MD-University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX;   Fellowship-Geriatric Medicine, VA Medical Center, Gainsville, FL;      Fellowship-National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD

Gary S. Winzelberg, MD (At Carol Woods since 2002)
Current Medical Director for Carol Woods

Currently: Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine, UNC-CH

Special Interests: Removing Restraints; End of Life Care; Was Fellow for Continuing Care Accreditation Commission (for AAHSA), Washington, DC, Revised National Accreditation Standards for CCRC’s; Was Lang Scholar, Untie the Elderly Program, Kendal Corp. (Created protocol to eliminate physical restraints at 3 Nursing Homes and designed & organized US
Senate Committee on Aging Symposium, “Quality Care without Restraints”.

Education: MD-Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH; Masters in Public Health (MPH)-University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Internship-Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA; Residency-Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Fellowship-Geriatric Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Fellowship-Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Washington.      

Andrew M. Greganti, MD  (At Carol Woods since 1988)

Currently: Professor and Vice Chair, Division of Geriatric Medicine, UNC-CH (formerly Assoc. Prof. Of  Geriatric Medicine, UNC-CH  (at UNC since 1977)

Previously: Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Mississippi School of Medicine

Special Interests: Precepts Geriatric Fellows; many Administrative Responsibilities at Div. Of Medicine

Prolific author of Journal articles and other writings; awards too numerous to mention.

Education: MD-University of Mississippi School of Medicine Internship & Residency-Internal Medicine, Strong Memorial Hospital, Univ. of Rochester
Certification in Geriatric Medicine added in 1988.

Laura Hanson, MD  (At Carol Woods since 1990)

Currently: Associate Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine; Co-Director, Center on Health Ethics and Policy, School of Medicine, UNC-CH

Special Interests: Ethics, End of Life Care

Education: MD-Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Masters in Public Health (MPH)-UNC-CH; Residency-Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Residency-Internal Medicine, NC Memorial Hospital, CH; Fellowship-Geriatrics, UNC-CH; Fellowship-Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, UNC-CH

Margaret Helton, MD  (At Carol Woods since January 2007)

Currently: Associate Professor,  Dept. of Family Medicine, UNC-CH;   Chief Operations Officer, Dept. of Family Medicine, UNC-CH

Education: MD-University of Michigan; Residency-Family Medicine, UNC-CH; Fellowship-Family Medicine, UNC-CH; Fellowship-Geriatric Medicine, UNC-CH

Thomas Miller, MD  (At Carol Woods since 1992)
(Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Pediatrics)

Currently: Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, UNC-CH; Director, Internal Medicine Clinic, UNC-CH

Previously: Medical Director, Orange-Chatham Comprehensive Health Services, Inc, and Clinical; Prof. of Medicine and Pediatrics, UNC-CH;    Attending MD, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Director of Geriatric Consultation Services, Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, and Asst. Prof. of Medicine, Columbia Univ.

Education: MD-UNC-CH; Internship- Medicine and Pediatrics-University of Rochester Associated Hospitals; Residency- Medicine and Pediatrics-NC Memorial Hospital