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Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Dec. 14 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Chetan Patel, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology) and Joseph Rogers, MD, associate professor of medicine (Cardiology). Dr. Patel and Dr.

Robert Lefkowitz, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology), a winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discusses his approach to science and life in a public conversation Nov. 1, 2012, with Duke University President Richard H.

Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz, the Duke researcher who earlier this month received the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Duke President Richard Brodhead will discuss research, scientific mentoring and other topics in a public discussion at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, in the Bryan Center's Griffith Theater.

The event is open to the public. No tickets or reservations are required. A video of the conversation will be made available on Duke on Demand soon after the event is completed.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Oct. 12 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Manesh Patel, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology). Dr.

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Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine, today announced the selection of Christopher O’Connor, MD, as chief of the Division of Cardiology, a role he has filled in an acting capacity since July 2010. "Throughout a deliberative and comprehensive national search for a new chie

Joanne P. McCallie, Duke University Women's Basketball head coach, and Kevin Thomas, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Division of Cardiology), explain the simplified CPR technique that can help save a person in cardiac arrest. During pre-game festivities and throughout Duke's Sept. 1 home football opener, the Duke Heart Center and Duke Women's Health Initiative will host a training tent on the main concourse to teach compression-only CPR. Learn more.

Three of medicine's most charismatic giants (Robert Lefkowitz, Joseph Goldstein, and Michael Brown) interview each other. Robert Lefkowitz, MD, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Biochemistry, is known for his seminal discoveries in understanding G protein-coupled receptor function. The legendary partnership between Brown and Goldstein (University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center) has spanned four decades.