Division News

The future of discovery in the world of research goes beyond the walls of core teams. Collaboration across institutions, countries, and around the world will answer the biggest questions in years to come.

Lori Orlando, MD, MHS, MMCI, Director of the Precision Medicine Program in the Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine recently spoke with WRAL on the importance of talking with loved ones about family health history.

Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine (CAGPM) faculty member, Ephraim Tsalik, MD, PhD, is senior author in a recent publication in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on, “Comparing the Diagnostic Accuracy of Clinician Judgement to a Novel Host Response Diagnostic for Acute Respiratory Illness.” Co-authors from CAGPM include Micah McClain, MD, PhD, Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, and Christopher Woods, MD.

Six scholars have been selected for the 2022-2024 cohort of Duke’s National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP). The cohort represents the fourth group of interdisciplinary medical researchers recruited to the Duke NCSP site.

Duke is one of six sites within the National Clinician Scholars Program, a consortium of prestigious academic health care research institutions which provides training for doctors and post-doctoral nurses as change agents for driving policy-relevant research and partnerships to improve health and health care.

We are proud to welcome 6 new staff members to our division! Learn more about their roles below. 

Christina Alamo Medina - Staff Assistant
Primary Administrative Support to DOC Faculty Leadership and Vice Chiefs for DGIM

Nkiruka Azuogalanya - Clinical Research Coordinator
Specialize in the day-to-day research operations, including regulatory activities and processes, screening and consenting, and other procedures conducted within the specific clinical research studies.

Knowing your family’s health history is one of the most important ways to maintain your health. It can be some of the best information doctors have to understand your risk for developing medical conditions.

The Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine welcomes our two new Post-Doctoral Training in Genomic Medicine Research trainees, Nathan Hawkey, MD, and Katherine Collins, PhD. CAGPM postdoc's are supported through T32 grant funding.

J. Frank Wharam, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine), presented the annual Dr. Eugene A. Stead Jr. lecture at Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Nov. 12, 2021, as part of Duke’s Medical Alumni Weekend. His presentation was entitled, "Detecting Health Policy Effects on Clinical Outcomes and Equity: The Case of Patient Financial Incentives and Diabetes".

As we honor Veterans Day today, the Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine (CAGPM) thanks all the current service members, the many veterans who have courageously served our country and their families who have supported these individuals. Our appreciation goes beyond Veterans Day, though, as researchers at the Durham VA Health Care System, Duke, and CAGPM, including Douglas E. Williamson, PhD, are advocates for the well-being of these individuals through their studies of genomic biomarkers that hold promise for improving support for the many service members and veterans who rely on mental health care post-deployment and beyond.

Maria Iglesias de Ussel, PharmD, PhD, recently joined the Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine as a Senior Research Scientist! Dr. Iglesias grew up in Madrid, Spain, where she trained as a PharmD and later earned her PhD. More than 20 years ago, she came to the U.S. and continued working as a scientist, first in Virology and later in Immunology.