Division News

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Feb. 28 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature J. Kevin Harrison, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and Interventional Director, Duke Center for Structural Heart Disease, with a case presentation by John Wagener, MD, resident in Internal Medicine. Dr.

The Duke University Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics will hold its 2014 symposium, Frontiers in Photonics: Science and Technology, March 11 and 12. The theme of the symposium is "Visualization Across The Spectrum from Engineering to Humanities and Medicine." Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and pathology and director of genomic medicine at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, will be one of the presenters. Learn more.

Zubin Eapen, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology), discusses mobile apps that monitor your heart with the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts.

Victor J. Dzau, MD, chancellor for health affairs at Duke University and president and chief executive officer for the Duke University Health System, has been named president of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Dzau will be leaving Duke on June 30, 2014, and will succeed current IOM president Harvey V.

Singer-songwriter Caitlin Linney celebrates her the life of her father and the doctors who have cared for him for the last 18 years - William Kraus and Kevin Jackson.

Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and pathology and director of genomic medicine at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, was co-organizer of the Global Leaders in Genomic Medicine meeting at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. in January. At the meeting, 50 leaders in genomic medicine from more than 25 countries discussed recommendations for improving the use of genomics in medicine.

Join J. Kevin Harrison, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology), G. Chad Hughes, MD, associate professor of surgery and director of the aortic surgery program, and John Vavalle, MD, MHS, on Sat., Feb. 22 for a complimentary full-day symposium focusing on aortic stenosis and transcatheter therapies (TAVR). The symposium will be held from 7 a.m.-4 p.m.

If you haven't seen a Nobel Prize in person, here is your chance: Robert Lefkowitz's 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry is on display on the ground floor of the Trent Semans Center. The display includes an interactive module describing Lefkowitz's career and research.

The Division of Cardiology invites faculty and trainees to attend Cardiology Grand Rounds on Tues., Nov.

Robert Lefkowitz, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology), and David Goldstein, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and microbiology and medicine and director of the Center for Human Genome Variation, are among 13 scientists at Duke University who were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, selected by a panel of their peers from the organization. The Duke honorees were among 388 fellows