Division News

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.

How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been at the Division? I started as a post-doc with the Division of General Internal Medicine and VA Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care (HSR&D Center) in December of 2003.

The American Society of Nephrology is accepting applications for the William and Sandra Bennett Clinical Scholars program. This program will support nephrology educators with $50,000 a year for up to two years to conduct a project to advance facets of nephrology education and teaching. Applications are due by Monday, July 7.