Division News

Karen Steinhauser, PhD, who recently served as an invited Palliative Medicine Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. While visiting, Dr. Steinhauser gave formal presentations and met one-on-one with faculty and students at the Program of Palliative Care Research. “I, and everyone with whom you met, are greatly appreciative of your willingness to share your time and expertise,” wrote Dr. Jean S.

The School of Medicine has announced the next cycle of the School of Medicine Bridge Funding program. This program funds investigators who have had a lapse in R01- or P01-level support. Eligible investigators may receive up to $100,000 per lapsed R01 grant or up to $200,000 per lapsed P01-grant. The next application deadline is Friday, August 15. For more information, download the attached announcement.

Ranee Chatterjee, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine), is among three Duke researchers selected to receive resources through the Duke Translational Medicine Institute's KL2 Scholar Program.

AcademyHealth has expanded its professional development program to include seven grants of $10,000 each for its members. These grants will support the early careers of new health services researchers by funding innovative, timely, and relevant research and translation activities.

The Greenwall Foundation will fund a bioethics grants program, Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas, to support research on an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical care, biomedical research, public health practice, or public policy. Letters of Intent are due August 1. This RF will fund five types of bioethics research grants: Mentored projects Senior collaborations, Normative analyses of implications of empirical research conducted with other funding, Empirical projects. Empirical studies of attit

For this week's faculty spotlight we talk to Dr. Lesley Curtis, Professor of Medicine and Director for the Center for Pragmatic Health Services at the DCRI about her work, research in electronic health records (EHRs), and time with family. How long have you been at Duke?

Duke University recently recognized six Division faculty and staff members for their continued service at Duke: Julie Miller (5 years), Iris Pounds (10 years), Corrine Voils (10 years), William Yancy (15 years), David Edelman (20 years), Lawrence Greenblatt (20 years), and Doug McCrory (25 years). Congratulations to them all!

Dr. Martha Adams recommends Cutting for Stone, the first novel by author and physician Abraham Verghese. Adams says, “It's a terrifically moving ‘story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles.’  I found the many life decisions in the storyline especially intriguing.

Duke Science and Society’s new SciComm Fellows program is offering Duke faculty the chance to develop communication skills and put those skills into action. Training sessions will include academic specialists in science communication, professional science storytellers, policy experts, and hands-on spoken and written communication exercises.

This week's faculty spotlight shines on Dr. Ranee Chatterjee, Assistant Professor of Medicine. We talk to Chatterjee about her clinical work, research interests, and diabetes prevention. How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been at the Division? I returned to Duke in 2011 after having graduated from medical school here many years ago.