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- 2017-09-23 - Kennedy, Cronkite, the pictures, and progress, we must not forget – Charles van der Horst
Herald-Sun, September 23, 2017 Despite the depressing news in my teenage years, we have made incredible progress since then. Protests, non-violent demonstrations, an independent press, and rule of law in a functioning democracy helped bring about change. We elected some good leaders and won important court cases. Since 1963 we have seen the end of Jim Crow laws, the Vietnam War, and a corrupt presidency. We saw the beginning of equal rights for women, nuclear arms treaties, and powerful environmental legislation in the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts. It is easy to forget that 60 years ago women were stuck in the kitchen, African Americans were in the back of the bus, and gay men and women were in the closet. Remembering this progress gives me strength.
- 2017-11-06 - ‘Vy da minus?’ Mother asked; who’s asking many children today? – Charles van der Horst
Herald-Sun, November 6, 2017 My siblings I count ourselves lucky. Our parents had a wonderful public education that fostered a lifelong love of learning, which they imparted to us. We were exceedingly fortunate that Mother had the time, energy and foresight to nag us and that our teachers had the patience to help us learn. Through their efforts, we graduated to life. Over the last eight years, North Carolina has lost its way, sacrificing the needs of the next generation, for a tax cut today. It’s time to change.
- 2017-12-07 - A mystery illness, and the importance of research dollars – Dr. Charles van der Horst
Herald-Sun, December 7, 2017 During my medicine internship in New York City in 1980, I picked up a new patient in the emergency room one evening.... At that time I did not know that he was one of the first patients with what would be called AIDS. We did not know that a virus was destroying his immune system rendering him susceptible to unusual infections and cancers. There were no tests to diagnose the infection, no measures of monitoring progression of the disease, no medications to treat the disease or prevent its complications.
- 2018-01-19 - Hundreds of physicians kill themselves each year. He didn't want to be one of them. – Dr. Charles van der Horst
Herald-Sun, January 19, 2018 An estimated 300 to 400 physicians die by suicide in the U.S. each year, a higher rate than the general population for both males and females. Somehow I avoided joining that number. In my rearview mirror, thinking of my daughters helped me look up and begin the move away from my inner torment.
- Biography for the Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado Boulder
2018 speaker Charles Michael van der Horst MD, FACP (Duke ’74, Harvard ’79) is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His career encompassed clinical medicine, NIH funded clinical research, teaching, and implementing clinical and research programs.
- Professor van der Horst has a history of activism in his roots
Claire Williams, Daily Tar Heel, Feb. 6, 2014
Charles van der Horst was arrested along with other Moral Monday protesters on May 6 in Raleigh for trespassing, violating building regulations and illegal gathering in the Capitol Building. The day before, he ran a relay race in California and grabbed a red eye flight back to North Carolina.
- real doctors, real people - Charles van der Horst and David Wohl
Nathan Clendenin for UNC Health Care, June 13, 2012
- The State of Things - The Doctor Who Loves Patient-Care: Meet Charlie van der Horst
Amanda Magnus and Frank Stasio, WUNC The State of Things, February 11, 2019.
Host Frank Stasio talks with Dr. Charles van der Horst, an emeritus professor in medicine and infectious diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, about his upbringing, his activism, and his work as a physician. Throughout his career, Dr. Charles van der Horst has always prioritized close relationships with his patients. He was on the front lines of the AIDS epidemic in the state and opened up an AIDS ward at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1980s.
- This NC doctor went to jail to save lives
NC State AFL-CIO, May 30, 2014
- UNC Researcher Tackles HIV, Politics & Marathons
Seasoned athlete. Political activist. HIV investigator. Charles van der Horst, MD, leads a multi-faceted life and passionately tackles any task.