Shah and Tanabe receive funding for grant with focus on improving care for sickle cell disease patients
Paula Tanabe, PhD, MSN, MPH, RN, FAEN, FAAN, associate professor of nursing and medicine, and Nirmish Shah, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Hematology), are co-principle investigators on a $4.6 million grant entitled “Improving SCD Care using Web-based Guidelines, Nurse Care Managers and Peer Mentors in Primary Care and Emergency Departments in Central NC.”
Gowthami Arepally to present heparin-induced thrombocytopenia research 9/30/2016
Gowthami Arepally, MD, will present her research at the Department's Research Seminar Series on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 in Duke Hospital Room 2002.
Linda Wilkins celebrates 50 years at Duke
Linda Wilkins, division administrator of the Division of Hematology, was recently honored for her 50 years of dedication and commitment to Duke University this July by the Department of Medicine’s faculty and staff.
Pope joins Duke to support division development and philanthropy efforts
Jake Pope has joined the Duke Health Development Office, and will work the Department of Medicine on development activities and philanthropy efforts for the divisions of Hematology, Geriatrics, Nephrology, and Rheumatology and Immunology. He will also support the Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine.
Arepally and collaborators receive MEDx Pilot Project Funding
Gow Arepally, MD, associate professor of medicine (Hematology) and pathology, is part of a team that received an inaugural MEDx Pilot Project Funding Program Award, which is designed to stimulate new collaborations, or support a new effort in an existing collaboration, between faculty from the Pratt School of Engineering and the School of Medicine.
Department selects five for Chair's Research Award, bridge funding
Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the department, and Scott Palmer, MD, MHS, vice chair for research, have announced the recipients of the 2016 Chair’s Research Award.
The annual award funds junior investigators who are making the transition to becoming independent scientists prior to their acquisition of extramural funding.
New Hematology research endowment honors Wendell F. Rosse, MD
Alexion Pharmaceuticals has pledged a $100,000 gift to establish the Wendell F. Rosse, MD, Complement Research Endowment in Hematology.
Marilyn Telen is Duke Today's Blue Devil of the Week
Marilyn Telen, MD, professor of medicine (Hematology), is Duke Today's Blue Devil of the Week.
Dr. Telen has been at Duke for 35 years doing basic and clinical research, which for the last 20 years has focused primarily on sickle cell disease, and training the next generation of hematologists. In the profile she shares the best advice she's ever been given, what she would do if she had $5 million and talks about her blog, MD on the Road.
Hematology faculty awarded 3 exciting research grants
Faculty in the Division of Hematology have recently received notice of three exciting grants.
Brice Weinberg, MD, professor of medicine (Hematology), was awarded an NIH R01 grant for "Nitric Oxide and Microvascular Dysfunction in Severe Malaria." This is a four-year grant that will begin in late September.
Telen's T32 hematology training grant renewal makes 40 years of continuous training
Marilyn Telen, MD, professor of medicine (Hematology), received notice earlier this summer that her Hematology T32 training grant will be renewed for July 1, 2016-June 30, 2021. With this renewal, Dr. Telen will have 40 continuous years training investigators at Duke.