Division News

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.

The NIH and NIDDK are supporting Exploratory/Developmental Research Grants (R21) proposing small scale or pilot and feasibility clinical and translational research studies, including epidemiological studies or clinical trials related to kidney or urologic disease research. Studies should address important clinical and translational questions. Projects supported by these grants may lead to full-scale clinical studies including diagnostic strategies, epidemiological studies, or randomized clinical trials of diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of kidney or urologic diseases.

Tom Holland, MD, is a recipient of a 2014  Faculty Education Award. This award, sponsored by the Department of Medicine, is awarded to one member of the GIM hospital medicine faculty each year for excellence and leadership in medical education in the hospital setting. Previous recipients include Drs. Jon Bae (2013) and Saumil Chudgar (2012). Congratulations, Dr.

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 NIDDK, NIAAA and ODS are encouraging R21 applications involving secondary analysis of existing data sets relevant to diabetes and endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases and nutrition, including obesity and eating disorders; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases. Read more.