Division News

AcademyHealth’s EDM Forum will host a free seminar on using Twitter to share health innovations and evidence. “The Social Network: Using Twitter to Translate and Disseminate Evidence” will be held from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, January 15.

The National Institutes of Health will require use of a new biosketch format in research grant applications submitted for due dates on or after January 25, 2015. The revised forms and instructions are now available on the SF 424 (R&R) Forms and Applications page. The new format extends the page limit from four to five pages, and allows researchers to describe up to five of

The PowerPoint presentation from Peter Ubel's time management discussion, given at the Fellow/Faculty development presentation on Friday the 19th, is available online here. During this presentation, Ubel talked about how to make effective lists, avoid being distracted by email, carve out time for research and other techniques.

Joel Boggan, MD, officially joined the division this fall, making him one of the newest additions to the division faculty. In this week’s faculty spotlight, we talk to him about his experience as chief resident of quality improvement and patient safety, his work in Quality Improvement, using Twitter professionally, and great places to eat in Durham. Although you’re new to the division, you’re no stranger to Duke.

The Clinical and Translational Core (CTC) of the Duke O’Brien Center for Kidney Research (DOCK) is sponsoring projects the interrelationships among kidney disease, hypertension and/or heart disease. Priorities for this year include aging, health disparities and implementation.

The School of Medicine is seeking applicants for the position of Associate Course Director for the Practice Course. The Practice Course is a longitudinal course spanning the first three years of medical school. The first year of the course teaches medical students the foundation of the patient-physician relationship, communication and interviewing as well as basic physical examination skills. The second year of the course is dedicated to advanced communication skills such as giving bad news as well as discussion of topics related to student clinical experiences.

The NIH is seeking R01 grant proposals that stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men.

[caption id="attachment_1842" align="alignright" width="300"] Brasstown Valley, the site of the 2015 course.[/caption] Applications are now open for the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Georgia Biomedical Informatics Course, to be held in the spring and fall of 2015 at Georgia Regents University.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has issued a request for applications to the Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Faculty Diversity in Biomedical Research (K01). This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)  is targeted toward individuals whose basic, clinical, and translational research interests are grounded in the advanced methods and experimental approaches needed to solve problems related to cardiovascular, pulmonary, and hematologic diseases and sleep disorders in the general and health disparities populations.

This week’s faculty spotlight shines on palliative care physician Nathan A Gray, MD. Gray talks to us about how he got into palliative care, his efforts to expand access to palliative care, and his own work as an amateur cartoonist.