Division News

For this week’s faculty spotlight, we talk to Rowena Dolor, MD, about her three decades at Duke, practice-based research networks, and Duke’s first national basketball championship.
How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been at the Division?

Congratulations to Corrine Voils, PhD, who was accepted into the Duke Science and Society SciComm Fellow's Program! This program, which will run this fall semester, will help scientists develop their communication skills and practice putting them into action. More information about the program is available here.

On Friday, Aug. 22, there will be a free presentation, Manage Your Online Reputation, featuring healthcare social media expert Kevin Pho, MD Pho is a practicing board-certified internal medicine physician and a healthcare social media leader.

Dr. Tulsky is professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine), and chief of Duke Palliative Care. He contributed an essay about patients' desires to die in their own beds to the Home special issue of Duke Magazine.

Philip R. O. Payne, PhD, FACMI, will deliver the lecture, "Biomedical Informatics: A Vision for the Next 10 Years of Innovation" for the next Informatics Research Seminar from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, August 20, in Hock Auditorium of Hock Plaza. The lecture can also be streamed live from this address.   

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is offering up to $76 million in support for patient-centered comparative effectiveness research proposals. Letters of Intent are due by Friday, September 5. In addition, on August 18, PCORI will issue its third call for proposals for large pragmatic clinical trials or large-scale observational studies. Up to $10 million per project will be available under this PFA.

The Duke CTSA research career development award program (Duke CTSA KL2) is now accepting applications. This program will provide skilled and personalized mentoring, a tailored scientific and career development curriculum, and the chance to conduct clinical or translational research. Three Scholars will be awarded 75% protected effort for 3 years, $20,000/year for research expenses, and $2,500/year for travel to professional meetings. Funding will start July 2015.

John J. Paat, MD, is the focus of this week's faculty spotlight. Paat recently returned to the Division after a stint at the Mayo Clinic. In this article he talks about working as the Medical Director of the Private Diagnostic Clinics, the concierge model of healthcare, and how Duke has changed since the 1990s. How long have you been at Duke?

The Duke Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development (Duke AHEAD) is calling for poster abstracts for its first Education Celebration. This celebration, which will be held November 13-14, will spotlight health-professions educators as well as their innovations and achievements. Abstracts are due Monday, August 11 and should advance innovation in education excellence.

This week’s spotlight shines on Ryanne Wu, MD, who talks about her work designing individualized risk assessment tools, the future of personalized medicine, and other topics. How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been at the Division? Those are two different questions for me. I first came to Duke as an undergraduate more years ago than I like to admit. I then left for medical school and residency training.