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.
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.
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.
4 Medicine faculty among recipients of new collaborative grant program
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:
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.
Registration open for annual Sports Cardiology and Sudden Death in Athletes Symposium
Registration is now open for the 3rd Annual Sports Cardiology and Sudden Death in Athletes Symposium.
As participation in sports and exercise rapidly grows in all US demographics, clinicians need to be able to integrate evidence-based care into the evaluation and treatment of athletes that can help minimize the risks of SCD in the athletic population.
Duke Cardiology at ACC
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.