Division News

Thomas Ortel, MD, PhD, has received a funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Dr. Ortel will receive $15 million over five years for the project "Warfarin versus Direct Oral Anticoagulants for Secondary Prevention of Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism: A Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial."

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, MD, will present her research at the Department's Research Seminar Series on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 in Duke Hospital Room 2002.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alexion Pharmaceuticals has pledged a $100,000 gift to establish the Wendell F. Rosse, MD, Complement Research Endowment in Hematology.

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. 

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.