Division News

This past week was the annual Duke Teaching and Leading EBP, a workshop for educators and champions of Evidence-Based Practice from across the country. The conference was held virtually this year, but participants were still able to meet with peers, expert faculty, and EBP mentors in a supportive learning atmosphere.

Public Health Genetics Week will take place May 23-27, 2022. The virtual event, organized by the National Coordinating Center for the Regional Genetics Network, aims to increase awareness, and celebrate the efforts of the public health genetics system.

The Duke ACTIV-4A hospital medicine research team was invited to speak at the NIH funded, ACTIV4A international monthly meeting hosted by New York University (NYU).  

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Gerald Bloomfield of Cardiology has received a sub-award through the Aga Khan University for a project entitled "Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases and Disorders Across the Lifespan: Fogarty International Research Training Award (NCD-LIFESPAN)." Total funding will be $23,180.

Four Department of Medicine faculty members have been named recipients of the 2022 Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) faculty awards.

The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) annual meeting just completed today in Nashville, Tennessee

The Society of General Internal Medicine's (SGIM) annual meeting just wrapped up in Orlando, Florida.

Dr. McCarthy is currently the Vice President of Precision Medicine at Fabric Genomics, a bioinformatics company that offers the leading AI-based software platform for analysis of next-generation sequencing data for use in clinical genetic testing.

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) convened their Annual Meeting at Duke University this past weekend where approximately 200 guests attended on-site in Durham with another 200 virtually from across the country, representing more than 40 programs.

The Duke Department of Medicine (DOM) is pleased to announce the Loan Repayment Program to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in Medicine (LRPDIM Award).

This award is part of a series of mentored career development opportunities offered by the DOM and is designed to fund underrepresented minorities in medicine who, as a group, are disproportionately impacted by student loans. This financial burden impedes retention, recruitment, and diversification of research faculty in the DOM.