Division News

[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.

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

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.

The NIH is seeking Research Conference Grant (R13) applications to conduct health disparities-related meetings, workshops, and symposia. This grant will bring together academic institutions and community organizations to identify opportunities for reducing health disparities through the use of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). Applicants may request direct costs of up to $30,000 per year for up to three years.

The 7th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation will be held from December 8-9 in Bethesda, MD.

Hayden Bosworth, PhD, is the subject of this week’s faculty spotlight.  This week he talks to us about the pleasures of teaching at the Clinical Research Training Program, a pilot effort to use mobile phones to improve adherence, and taking taekwondo with his two sons. 
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Lisa Criscione Schreiber, MD, will lead December’s Medical Education Grand Rounds on December 2, 3 and 4 with the discussion topic of “Developing Assessment Tools in Medical Education.” The Grand Rounds will be held in the Duke Medicine Pavilion conference room on Tuesday, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, from noon to 1 p.m., and Thursday, from 7 a.m.

Division faculty and staff are invited to attend a screening of the film “Consider the Conversation 2: Stories About Cure, Relief, and Comfort,” at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 4. Tickets are free, but registration is required and space is limited.

The NIH have issued several new funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) to examine new validation measures for behavior change, as well as a new FOA to enhance the participation of individuals from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic and sleep disorders research.