Division News

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

Sunil Rao, MD, associate professor of medicine (Cardiology), has been appointed to the VA Field Advisory Group for Cardiology.

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.

Four faculty members from the Department of Medicine are among the recipients of a new grant program aimed at fostering interactions between researchers in the School of Medicine and the Duke campus. Eight seed grants were awarded to project teams for "Collaborative Quantitative Approaches to Problems in the Basic and Clinical Sciences."

The teams from Medicine are:

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.

Faculty and trainees in the Duke Division of Cardiology will participate in nearly 150 presentations during ACC.16, the annual scientific meeting and expo of the American College of Cardiology.

The meeting will take place April 2-4 in Chicago. Take a look at a list of Duke faculty participants.

Tariq Ahmad, MD, MPH, is one of seven young authors to receive the Young Author Achievement Award from the American College of Cardiology in recognition of outstanding research published in one of the sister journals of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

The U.S. Senate today confirmed Robert Califf, MD, to be the next commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Barton F. Haynes, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Human Vaccine Institute at Duke, and Nobel Laureate Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology), have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Christopher Kontos, MD, associate professor of medicine (Cardiology), is one of five Duke University School of Medicine faculty members to be elected as a fellow of the AAAS for 2015, in recognition of his contributions to innovation, education and scientific leadership.

The new fellows will be recognized in a February Fellows Forum at the 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.