Division News

Three Department of Medicine faculty members have been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) Class of 2017. 

​Haider Warraich, MD, a cardiovascular diseases fellow at Duke, was a guest on NPR's "Fresh Air," where he discussed his book "Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life."

School of Medicine Office for Faculty Development has announced the next class in its ALICE program, a leadership development opportunity for mid-career women faculty in the School of Medicine. Seven participants in the next class are from the Department of Medicine.

Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, will present his research at the Department's Research Seminar Series at noon on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 in Duke Hospital Room 2002. Dr. Lefkowitz will discuss G-Protein Coupled Receptors.

Robert Lefkowitz, MD, and Howard Rockman, MD, are colleagues and collaborators. They recently sat down to talk about what they've learned in their long careers in biomedical research. Hear more from Dr. Lefkowitz at noon on Fri., Jan. 27, at Medicine Research Seminar.

Four faculty in the Division of Cardiology have received awards from the Mandel Center for Hypertension and Atherosclerosis at Duke. The faculty are members of the Duke Cardiovascular Research Center, which has a mission of scholarship, training, and mentoring that includes developing the next leaders in cardiovascular discovery research.

Duke Cardiology news, updates, reflections and accolades

Duke Heart Center Grand Rounds – Mitral Regurgitation

Robert M. Califf, MD, who is on leave from Duke to serve as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, received the American Heart Association's Research Achievement Award for 2016 “for his visionary clinical research leading to paradigm-changing procedures that have directly and significantly improved, in innumerable ways, the management of patients with cardiovascular disease.”

Duke Cardiology news, updates, reflections and accolades 

American Heart Association Meeting

Three from Cardiology named to new Duke Health Scholars and Duke Health Fellows program

This inaugural program was created with a transfer of funds from the Duke University Health System. Its aim is to support the research efforts and enhance the academic success of early to mid-career clinician-scientists in School of Medicine clinical departments.