Division News

Shiv Nadar University and Duke have issued a request for proposals (RFP) for research projects that build collaborative interdisciplinary research between both universities. This RFP will offer pilot funds for this collaborative research, which investigators may then use to obtain preliminary findings and larger sources of external funding. The RFP will offer up to $25,000 per year for two years; proposals are due by March 31. This year’s RFP has a focus on the intersection of global health and urbanizations, but other interdisciplinary topics may also be eligible.

The Center for Stroke Disparities Solutions (CSDS) is offering free training and mentoring programs for junior faculty interested in stroke-related disparities. The two-week program will be held this summer in New York City, with resources and faculty from both NYU Langone Medical Center and Columbia University Medical Center; funding for travel and accommodations will be available. Sessions will include coursework, grant-writing sessions, mentoring sessions, and opportunities for collaborative research between mentors and mentees.

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) has selected Jason Webb, MD, as an inspiring Hospice and Palliative Leader under the age of 40. Candidates were evaluated based on their work within the AAHPM, educating others within the field, participating in charitable work, mentoring of residents or students, and other professional accomplishments.

The NIH’s Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects are funding  practical and potentially sustainable strategies, delivered in routine clinical care settings, to improve processes of care and health outcomes of individuals who are at risk for or have diabetes. Applications are due by March 2, 2015. Read more. 

The subject of 2015's first faculty spotlight got into medicine following in the footsteps of not only his father, but two of his sisters. Jonathan Bae, MD, talks to us about being part of a medical family, reviewing preventable deaths within the Duke health system, and how a residency training in both pediatrics and internal medicine influences his current work.

The NIH have issued a funding opportunity announcement for  to support obesity policy and program evaluation research where opportunities for empirical study are only available through expedited review and funding. The next rolling deadlines for letters of intent are January 13 and February 10. Read the full application.

The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation is funding research grants in palliative care, pain and bioethics. The external application deadline is March 15; submissions should be sent to the Office of Research Administration by March 5. Read more. 

For our last faculty spotlight of 2014, we talk to Leah Zullig, PhD about her research on quality of care for survivors of colorectal cancer, efforts to improve self-management for patients living with chronic diseases, and swimming with sand tiger sharks off the North Carolina coast.
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The American Medical Informatics Association’s Clinical Translational Science Community (CTS-AMIA) is offering  “NICHD’s Clinical Trials Database,” a free webinar for members on January 9 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. CTS-AMIA is a community of practice and research for translational informaticians and researchers specifically professionals associated with CTSA and CTSI sites.

Faculty and staff are invited to join the Internal Medicine Book Club, which will meet for the first time on Wednesday, January 28 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Duke Medicine Faculty Center (Seeley G. Mudd Building). January’s meeting will involve a discussion of Atul Gawande’s latest book, Being Mortal.