Division News

Congratulations to the following faculty members for their recent promotion in the Department of Medicine. The following changes were approved during the November 4, 2022 Board of Trustees meeting.

Faculty Member	Promotion to	Effective	Division

Risk analysis strategy reduces the number of costly stress tests and has better outcomes

The award honors a physician whose scientific achievements have contributed profoundly to the advancement and practice of clinical cardiology.

Study offers clarity after one of the diuretics had been perceived as more effective

DOM faculty Rasheed Gbadegesin, MD, and Christopher Kontos, MD, share the importance of training future physician-scientists

Faculty New to the Department of Medicine - October 1, 2021, through October 1, 2022

Medicine Faculty, Adrian Hernandez, MD, and Susanna Naggie, MD, are leading the trial being facilitated through the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI)

Duke University cardiology researchers are teaming up with North Carolina emergency care personnel—EMS, fire, police, 911 dispatch and community members—across the state in a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial that will test community interventions to improve survival for out of hospital cardiac arrest, a leading cause of death in the U.S.

Read Heath's story Heath and how community interventions, like the RACE-CARS pragmatic cluster-randomized trial, saved his life.

A new model to predict the life expectancy of older people relies less on their specific disease diagnoses and more on factors such as the ability to grocery shop, the amount of certain small cholesterol particles circulating in their blood, and whether they never or only occasionally smoked.