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 NIH is calling for research grant applications focused on palliative care in geriatric populations.

Duke AHEAD is offering project funding for start-up support for projects that  health professions education through innovative approaches to instruction or assessment. Letters of Intent are due by July 31. All Duke University School of Medicine and School of Nursing faculty who are Duke AHEAD members are eligible.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) are calling for Research Project Grant (R01) applications on health services and economic research to improve the quality of prevention, treatment, and recovery support services for drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse. Read more.

The NIH is funding Research Project Grants (R01) to test practical, sustainable, and cost-efficient strategies to prevent and treat diabetes and/or obesity. Research focused on the prevention or reversal of obesity, prevention of type 2 diabetes, improved care of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, or the prevention or delay of the complications of these conditions is encouraged.

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose to use a common conceptual model to develop behavioral interventions to modify health behaviors and improve health outcomes in patients with comorbid chronic diseases and health conditions.

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!