Division News

As part of Duke Medical Alumni Weekend, the Department of Medicine will host a special Medicine Grand Rounds at 8 a.m. on Fri., Oct.

The Duke Heart Center is convening its first Advanced Heart Failure Symposium on Sat., Oct.

The Medicine Research Conference returns Fri., Sept. 27 at 12 p.m. in Duke Hospital 2002 with a presentation by Matthew Wolf, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology). Dr. Wolf will present Cardiomyopathies: Flies to Humans. Lunch will be provided.

Adrian Herndandez, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (Cardiology), will receive a grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), which this week announced funding for 71 new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research projects.

Dr. Richard Becker, director of the Cardiovascular Thrombosis Center and professor of Medicine, has accepted a new position at his alma mater, the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Becker will serve as the Mable Stonehill Endowed Chair for the Division of Cardiovascular Health and Disease; director of the Heart, Lung, and Vascular Institute; director of the Cardiovascular Center of Excellence in Research; and chief of Cardiovascular Services at West Chester Hospital.

Robert Lefkowitz, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, will throw out the first pitch at the Durham Bulls game on tonight. Dr.

Duke Cardiology, through a Center of Excellence Grant from the NIH and philanthropic funding, has teamed up with AMPATH and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital to develop a Clinical Research Training program and build a Cardiac Care Unit. This initiative is providing expanded care to the hospital's catchment area of around 20 million while training the next generation of clinical researchers and leaders in Kenya's health care system.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., July 26 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Todd Kiefer, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology). Dr.

The Same-Day Access Heart Failure Clinic is designed to catch the signs and symptoms before patients have to go to the emergency department, explains Zubin Eapen, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology) and the clinic's medical director.

Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and pathology and director of genomic medicine at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, is one of four investigators to receive a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)'s Genomic Medicine Pilot Demonstration Projects program.