Division News

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) held its first in-person gathering since the onset of COVID-19. The annual symposium took place in San Diego, CA on October 30 through November 4, 2021.

Congratulations to five General Internal Medicine (GIM) faculty members who are recipients of recent research funding.

Keisha Bentley-Edwards received an award from International Business Machines for a project entitled "Protective for Whom: Centering Black Infant and Maternal Health in Understanding Social Determinants." Total funding will be $85,000.

Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, a professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Pathology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Engineering, and a professor in School of Nursing, will leave Duke to assume the role of Chief Medical and Scientific Officer for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) All of Us Research Program, effective January 2022. In this role, Dr. Ginsburg will help direct the national scientific research agenda to improve health and accelerate research using precision medicine.

Congratulations to Drs. Eric Chu and Zachary Hager for their promotions to Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, effective November 1, 2021.

Lori Orlando, MD, MHS, MMCI, director of the precision medicine program in the Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, spoke at the Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine 2021 Genomics & Adoption Symposium today.

A new study by Duke researchers, including Duke Center for Applied Genomics members Deepak Voora, MD, Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, and first author, Rachel Meyers, PhD, explores why aspirin may not work as well as expected against stroke and heart attack and to better understand any differences between low- and high-dose aspirin – one of the most commonly used medications worldwide.

CAGPM and the Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB) have partnered with North Carolina Central University (NCCU) for the Summer Scholars Program in Genome Sciences and Medicine, supported by an R25 grant by the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH.

Ricardo Henao, PhD, Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine faculty and assistant professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, collaborating with co-investigators, recently published “Evaluation of an RNAseq-Based Immunogenomic Liquid Biopsy Approach in Early-Stage Prostate Cancer” in Cells.

On the heels of October highlighting breast cancer awareness and entering November when National Family Health History month is recognized, Dr. Ryanne Wu, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Medicine and faculty at the Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine (CAGPM), recently completed a study on the “Development and Clinical Implementation Pilot of an Oncology-specific Risk Assessment tool in Singapore”, funded by the Duke/Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Research Collaboration funding mechanism.

Sponsored Research 

Melissa Daubert of Cardiology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Coronary Artery Calcium in the PRagmatic EValuation of evENTs And Benefits of Lipid lowering in the Elderly: CAC PREVENTABLE Ancillary Study." Total funding will be $7,892,380.