Division News

Have you ever wondered whether your research might be eligible to Department of Defense (DoD) funding, or wanted to know more about how to pitch your research? If so, attend the free workshop on Department of Defense (DoD) research funding will be held on Tuesday, September 30, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Duke South Clinic Amphitheater. The workshop will offer practical guidance to frame research in a DoD-friendly context, obtain funding, and build relationships with DoD program managers.

Congratulations to Courtney Van Houtven, PhD, who is giving a plenary address at the 3rd International Conference on Evidence-Based Policy in Long-Term Care, which will be held this coming weekend in London. Van Houten will deliver the lecture, “Economics of Informal Care: Do We Know Enough to Advocate for Policy Change?” This plenary session will review empirical findings about the economic impacts of informal care and discuss policies in the U.S. that affect caregivers. Read more.

The sixth annual American Hospitalist Academy will be held from October 20-23 in Englewood, Colorado. This event provides academic hospitalists with scholarly and professional development skills, with a focus on: developing academic hospitalists as teachers and educational leaders enhancing awareness of quality improvement and patient safety work supporting academic promotion of attendees. For more information, click here.

The Department of Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, Aug. 29 at 8 a.m., will feature a special presentation by U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald. Secretary McDonald will present VA: A Higher Calling in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center for Health Education. Nominated by President Obama as the eighth Secretary of Veterans Affairs on June 30, Secretary McDonald was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 29, 2014.

Duke AHEAD is sponsoring a free session on grant writing for health professions educators on Thursday, August 28, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center. The event will provide educators with pearls and pointers on successful grant writing.  The hour-long interactive session will feature  mini-presentations by experts in grant writing, management and funding.

Proposals for research grants and fellowships in the area of cancer prevention and early detection are currently being accepted. For this cycle, the Prevent Cancer Foundation expects to grant a total of 3 awards, including both grants and fellowships. The award amount is $40,000 per year for two years. Applications are due August 27. Read more.

On Friday, Aug. 22, there will be a free presentation, Manage Your Online Reputation, featuring healthcare social media expert Kevin Pho, MD Pho is a practicing board-certified internal medicine physician and a healthcare social media leader.

Dr. Tulsky is professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine), and chief of Duke Palliative Care. He contributed an essay about patients' desires to die in their own beds to the Home special issue of Duke Magazine.

Philip R. O. Payne, PhD, FACMI, will deliver the lecture, "Biomedical Informatics: A Vision for the Next 10 Years of Innovation" for the next Informatics Research Seminar from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, August 20, in Hock Auditorium of Hock Plaza. The lecture can also be streamed live from this address.   

John J. Paat, MD, is the focus of this week's faculty spotlight. Paat recently returned to the Division after a stint at the Mayo Clinic. In this article he talks about working as the Medical Director of the Private Diagnostic Clinics, the concierge model of healthcare, and how Duke has changed since the 1990s. How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been at the Division? This is my second stint as a Duke faculty member. I was here from 1990 to 1999.