Division News

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.

Four Department of Medicine faculty were recently awarded Enhanced Academics in a Basic Laboratory Environment (ENABLE) program research grants from the PDC. 

​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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: