Division News

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:

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.

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.

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.

Svati Shah, MD, associate professor of medicine (Cardiology), received the American Heart Association’s 2015 Functional Genomics and Epidemiology Mid-Career Research Award at the recent AHA Scientific Sessions meeting in Orlando. 

A number of obstacles prevent heart failure patients from getting enough exercise, a new study has found.

Supervised aerobic workouts benefit people with heart failure. But a lack of social support and barriers -- such as child care -- means that many patients don't get the recommended amount of exercise, researchers found.

They looked at more than 2,200 heart failure patients enrolled in a 36-session supervised exercise program for three months, followed by two years of home exercise.

The Department of Medicine's Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee (MRRC) will host Monique Anderson, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology) for a presentation on "The Pursuit of an Academic Research Career: Preparing to Transition to Faculty."

The presentation will be held from 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Wed., Nov. 18 in 1103 Duke North. Dinner will be served.