Division News

Lesley H. Curtis, PhD was promoted to Full Professor of Medicine by the Duke University School of Medicine Board of Trustees on December 1, 2013! Her appointment to this highest academic rank reflects the tremendous impact of her work to improve human health, her continuous exemplary scholarship, and the extraordinarily high esteem she has garnered as a preeminent scholar among her peers and scholars nationally and internationally. Dr.

Leah Zullig, Eric Peterson and Hayden Bosworth published a JAMA “Viewpoint” entitled, “Ingredients of Successful Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence” see piece here: Zullig et al Viewpoint. Congratulations!

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Nov. 22 at 8 a.m.

Dr. Courtney Van Houtven will present her work (jointly authored with Nina Sperber, Corrine Voils, Jillian Boles as well as colleagues from U. Chicago and U. Washington) at an Economics of Aging Interest Group Symposium, called “Insuring Risk for Long-term Services Need: Individual, Family and Public Approaches” at the Gerontological Society of America in New Orleans, November 22, 2013.

Dr. Hayden Bosworth delivered a key lecture at the European Society for Patient Adherence, Compliance, and Persistence Meeting in Budapest, Hungary Friday November 15, entitled “Translating efficacious adherence interventions into practice: challenges and solutions.”

Hayden Bosworth delivered an invited talk at Kidney Week (American Society of Nephrology) in Atlanta, GA on Thursday, November 7, entitled “physician factors and suboptimal BP control.”

Standard NIH deadlines can be found here: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm   Please contact Deborah Wallace (deborah.wallace@dm.duke.edu) as soon as you think you may submit an NIH grant. Submissions require several weeks advance planning to facilitate successful submissions.

From the Director Doctoberfest/comes sadly to a close/hello, recruitment!

James Tulsky gave the closing plenary session last week at the National Palliative Care Research Center Annual Retreat and Symposium on his body of work in communication research– “Behind Closed Doors: The Power of Words in the Medical Encounter”

Corrine Voils' abstract was judged to be "among the best in the field" and will be recognized among 10 winners in the Obesity Society's Health Services Research Section. Their work will receive special recognition during Obesity Week, held in Atlanta from November 11-16 at the Georgia World Congress Center. Congratulations, Corrine!