Ginsburg discusses precision medicine on U.S. News & World Report panel
Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, founding director for the Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine at the Duke University Medical Center, Elizabeth M. McNally, MD, director of the Center for Genetic Medicine and a professor in the departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and Barrett J.
Thomas Receives $2 Million PCORI Grant
Kevin Thomas, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology), has received a $2 million grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
9/25/15: Grand Rounds, Research Seminar returns and two celebrations
Friday will be a particularly busy day in the Department of Medicine. The Department will host two conferences and two of its centers will mark anniversaries with seminars and celebrations.
Klotman forms search committee for chief of Cardiology
Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine, has formed a search committee that will be charged with identifying the very best candidates for the role of chief of the Division of Cardiology.
Two seminars hosted by Duke's Ion Channel Research Unit
Duke's Ion Channel Research Unit invites faculty and trainees to the following seminars:
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015
4 p.m.; 143 Jones
Geoffrey Pitt, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Director, Ion Channel Research Unit, Duke University
"Ion channel (dys)regulation and cardiac disease"
Heart Center to mark 40 years of Duke University’s Preventive Approach to Cardiology with Sept. 25 seminar
Duke Heart Center will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Duke University’s Preventive Approach to Cardiology with an afternoon symposium on Fri., Sept. 25, 2015 in the Trent Semans Center for Health Education.
Warraich, cardiovascular diseases fellow, writes about caring for patients with heart failure in New York Times
First-year cardiovascular diseases fellow Haider Javed Warraich, MD, writes about failing patients with heart failure in an opinion piece in today's New York Times.
Ginsburg named director of School of Medicine-Pratt School partnership
Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (Cardiology), pathology and biomedical engineering, has been named director of MEDx (Medicine and Engineering at Duke) and will serve an initial three-year term.
Abraham receives K Award for TREK-1 research
Dennis Abraham, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology), received notification of funding for his K Award for his project entitled “TREK-1 in Fibroblast Differentiation and Cardiac Fibrosis Development.”
Dr. Abraham is the Greenfield Scholar this year in the Division of Cardiology, and the recipient of the Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Award in Basic Cardiovascular Sciences at the AHA Scientific Sessions in 2014 and the Chair's Research Award in 2012 and 2014.
Ginsburg to speak at White House precision medicine event
Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and director of the Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, will speak at the White House’s Champions of Change for Precision Medicine event today.
"I was asked to give one of five presentations to speak about platforms that engage patients for precision medicine," said Dr. Ginsburg. will announce plans to make the MeTree family medical history software widely available.
Ginsburg is a member of the President's Precision Medicine Initiative.