Division News

Our third Staff Spotlight focuses on Clinical Research Coordinator Iris Pounds, a 10-year veteran of the Division. Ms. Pounds talks to us about the human and scientific sides of her work, her dual degrees in business and health administration, and collecting costume jewelry. How long have you been at Duke?

The PhRMA Foundation is offering 2015 grants and fellowships in clinical pharmacology, health outcomes, and translational medicine and therapeutics. Available awards include the $120,000 Faculty Development Award in Clinical Pharmacology, research starter grants in health outcomes and translational medicine and therapeutics, and doctoral fellowship awards. Applications are due by February 1, 2015.

This year’s Clinical Science Day will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 8. This CME-accredited program brings together faculty staff trainees and students to celebrate clinical science research and encourage collaboration. This Clinical Science day will feature five School of Medicine faculty speakers, including Division Chief Ebony Boulware, MD.

Congratulations to James A. Tulsky, MD, who was the co-author of a recent Institute of Medicine report calling for an overhaul of the way the U.S. approaches end-of-life care.

The Harry J. Lloyd Charitable Trust is accepting application for melanoma research projects in melanoma research in three categories  Career, Basic Science, and Translational Research. Awards tend to be in the range of $100K - $125K per year; applications are due by December 10. Read more. 

Flu vaccines are now available free of charge to all School of Medicine faculty and staff. Annual vaccination is required for all Division faculty or staff who do clinical work and is strongly encouraged for other Division faculty and staff. Times and locations for obtaining the vaccination are available online at http://www.duke.edu/flu/shots/  

James Tulsky, MD, professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine) and chief of Duke Palliative Care, has been awarded $1.7 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for a communication and dissemination research project.

Division faculty are invited to complete a brief survey for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. This survey will be used to create a database of faculty members who mentor residents in clinical research and other scholarly activities. Click here to complete the survey.

William Yancy, MD, is the focus of this week’s faculty spotlight. Dr. Yancy talks about being a second-generation Duke employee, teaching clinical research seminars, his research investigating the effects of diet preference on weight loss, water-skiing and other subjects. How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been at the Division? I actually grew up in Durham with both of my parents working for Duke.

Two Duke faculty members lent their expertise to a 21-member nonpartisan committee that called for an overhaul of the national approach to end-of-life care. The report, “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life,” was released last week.