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Medicine Faculty, Adrian Hernandez, MD, and Susanna Naggie, MD, are leading the trial being facilitated through the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI)

Duke University cardiology researchers are teaming up with North Carolina emergency care personnel—EMS, fire, police, 911 dispatch and community members—across the state in a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial that will test community interventions to improve survival for out of hospital cardiac arrest, a leading cause of death in the U.S.

Read Heath's story Heath and how community interventions, like the RACE-CARS pragmatic cluster-randomized trial, saved his life.

A new model to predict the life expectancy of older people relies less on their specific disease diagnoses and more on factors such as the ability to grocery shop, the amount of certain small cholesterol particles circulating in their blood, and whether they never or only occasionally smoked.

In this role Ward will serve as the faculty lead for current and future School of Medicine (SoM) faculty development programs including Leadership Development for Researchers (LEADER); Academic Leadership, Innovation, and Collaborative Engagement (ALICE); and the Duke Clinical Leadership Program (DCLP).

See recently awarded research funding.

The data coordinating center will be led by DCRI faculty members Christina Barkauskas, MD, and Sean O’Brien, PhD, with principal investigator, Kanecia Zimmerman, MD.

Project was led by Cardiology Fellow, Vishal N. Rao, M.D. and Robert J. Mentz, M.D., section chief of heart failure in the Duke Division of Cardiology

Eight Department of Medicine faculty members have completed the Leadership Development for Researchers (LEADER) Program, which is designed for junior faculty who are leading a research group and driving their own research agenda.

Jennifer Rymer, MD, has been named the John Bush Simpson Assistant Professor of Medicine.