6 from Medicine honored at SoM Spring Faculty Meeting
Six Department of Medicine faculty were recognized with awards at the School of Medicine's annual Spring Faculty Meeting on May 9.
DCRI and SAS open heart-disease data to researchers
A new collaboration will give more researchers access to the largest and oldest cardiovascular database in the world. The DCRI and analytics leader SAS will provide researchers worldwide with data management and analytics tools to explore 45 years of cardiovascular patient data collected by the Duke University Health System.
4 from Medicine receive 2016 ENABLE research funding
Four Department of Medicine faculty were recently awarded Enhanced Academics in a Basic Laboratory Environment (ENABLE) program research grants from the PDC.
Warraich essay on seeing the cycle of life in his baby daughter's eyes
Haider Warraich, MD, a cardiovascular diseases fellow, has an essay in today's New York Times about the parallels between the beginning and end of life. Take a moment to read an excerpt below and find the full article here.
Medicine faculty to teach special course on diabetes at ACP Internal Medicine meeting
Diana McNeill, MD, professor of medicine (Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition), has organized a diabetes precourse for the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting in May.
4/28/16: Duke MEDx Symposium on modeling anatomy and flow in congenital heart disease
Duke MEDx will host a symposium on "Modeling Anatomy and Flow in Congenital Heart Disease" from 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Thur., April 28, in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center.
Alexander and Gbadegesin inducted into ASCI
Two Medicine faculty members were inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation during the 2016 annual meeting April 15-17:
John Alexander, MD, MHS, professor of medicine (Cardiology)
Rasheed A. Gbadegesin, MD, associate professor of medicine and pediatrics
Rao appointed to VA Field Advisory Group for Cardiology
Sunil Rao, MD, associate professor of medicine (Cardiology), has been appointed to the VA Field Advisory Group for Cardiology.
Department selects five for Chair's Research Award, bridge funding
Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the department, and Scott Palmer, MD, MHS, vice chair for research, have announced the recipients of the 2016 Chair’s Research Award.
The annual award funds junior investigators who are making the transition to becoming independent scientists prior to their acquisition of extramural funding.
Study by Navar and Rymer on open access platforms for clinical trial data accepted in JAMA
Research by cardiovascular diseases fellow Ann Marie Navar, MD, PhD, and Duke University Hospital Chief Resident for Internal Medicine Jennifer Rymer, MD, MBA, has been accepted in The Journal of the American Medical Association.