Division News

Stephen Greene, MD, and Julia Xu, MD, MSc-GH, have received 2021 Chair's Research Awards from the Department of Medicine.

Anish Karpurapu was among the 410 students awarded Goldwater Scholarships on March 26 for the 2021-2022 academic year. Karpurapu is a Duke undergraduate student working in Ravi Karra’s lab in the Duke Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC) to identify and model growth niches in the heart that underlie heart regeneration. In the future, he plans to pursue an MD/PhD and direct his own research program focused on drug discovery through stem cell biology. 

Congratulations to the faculty from the Department of Medicine who were selected as winners of the inaugural 2021 DCRI/DIHI Innovation Campfire season. 

The March 16, 2021 session of Duke Medicine LEADS featured a discussion led by George Sipa Yankey Jr., MD, "Altered Mental Status...Oh No!"

Panelist included, Anna Lisa Crowley, MD, Dorlan Kimbrough, MD, and Andrew Vekstein, MD, who weighed in for the diagnostic reasoning discussion.

The Feb. 2, 2021 session of Duke Medicine LEADS featured E. Magnus Ohman, MD, FACC, presenting "New Medications and New Uses: Advanced Cardiovascular Prevention Strategies."

The School of Medicine Office for Faculty Development has announced the 2021 participants in its ALICE program, a yearlong leadership development program for mid-career women faculty in leadership roles.

28 faculty from the School of Medicine, including 9 faculty from the Department of Medicine, have been selected for the School of Medicine's 2021 Duke Clinical Leadership Program cohort.

Jennifer Rymer, MD, MBA, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology), is one of five recipients of the Women As One 2021 Escalator Research Awards.

14 faculty from the Department of Medicine have been selected for the School of Medicine Office for Faculty's 2021 LEADER program.

Larry Jackson, MD, and Jonathan Velez-Rivera, MD, have been selected in the 2021 class of ADVANCE-UP Scholars.