Division News

Kevin Jackson, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology), recently performed the first left atrial appendage occlusion with the LARIAT suture delivery device at Duke University Hospital.

Richard Krasuski, MD, a former Duke Cardiology fellow, will join the Division of Cardiology in July, announced Joseph Rogers, MD, interim chief of the division. Dr. Krasuski completed his cardiology fellowship at Duke. He currently runs the Adults with Congenital Heart Disease Program at the Cleveland Clinic.

Ravi Karra, MD, medical instructor in the Division of Cardiology, is a co-author of a recent article about heart regeneration in zebrafish. He also leads a clinical trial studying neuregulin in heart failure patients.

Three of the nation’s largest philanthropies – the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Simons Foundation – have announced a new partnership to provide much needed research support to outstanding early-career scientists in the United States.

Through the new Faculty Scholars Program, the philanthropies will invest a total of $148 million in research support over the program’s first five years.

Ann Marie Navar-Boggan, MD, PhD, fellow in the Division of Cardiology, was elected to the Duke University School of Medicine chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.

Rob Califf, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and vice chancellor for clinical research, has been named deputy commissioner for Medical Products and Tobacco at the Food and Drug Administration.

Califf will begin his appointment, which was announced today by FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, MD, at the end of February.

Geoffrey Pitt, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (Cardiology), has been named a 2015 Harrington Scholar-Innovator grant recipient. The awards, funded by The Harrington Discovery In

The fellows and faculty of the Duke Heart Center have developed a free iOS mobile application, Duke Cardiology Fellows Cardiovascular Education App, that serves as a cardiovascular educational reference. The app is meant for medical stude

Only about 10 percent of people who go into cardiac arrest outside a hospital survive, but in a way, the man face down in the Chicago hotel lobby Sunday could scarcely have been luckier. This News & Observer story tells how Monique Anderson, MD, medical instructor in the Division of Cardiology and an expert on CPR, attended to the man. Read the full story.

Dennis Abraham, MD, medical instructor in the Division of Cardiology, has won the Melvin L.