Division News

Two Department Medicine faculty members were inducted into the Association of American Physicians (AAP) during a joint April 6 meeting of the AAP, the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the American Physician-Scientists Association (APSA). Membership in AAP is a distinction recognizing excellence and outstanding achievement.

The Department of Medicine has awarded the 2019 Chair's Research Award to four junior investigators who are making the transition to becoming independent scientists prior to their acquisition of extramural funding.

Kathleen Cooney, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine, announced that Andrew Alspaugh, MD, will serve as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Medicine, and David Pisetsky, MD, PhD, has agreed to serve as Associate Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, effective April 1.

Gregory Gray, MD, MPH, professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases), global health and in the Nicholas School of the Environment, will present his research at the Department's Research Seminar Series on Friday, April 26, 2019 at 12 p.m. in Duke Hospital Room 2002.

The Duke University Transplant Infectious Diseases Program will hold its 5th annual symposium, "Gene Expression Profiling for Diagnosing and Managing Infection and Rejection in the Immunocompormised Host," from 1-4:45 p.m. on Wed., May 8, in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center.

Andrew Alspaugh, MD, and Saumil Chudgar, MD, MS, have been recognized with Golden Apple Awards by the Duke School of Medicine medical students.

Myaing Myaing Nyunt, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases) and global health in 2018, sees an urgency to eradicating malaria in her native country of Myanmar.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has presented its 2018 Oswald Avery Award for Early Achievement to Susanna Naggie, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases), for her novel research on the treatment of patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV).

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has announced that Barbara Alexander, MD, professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases) and pathology, will serve as the IDSA board's vice president as part of the executive committee.

Congratulations to the following Department of Medicine faculty who received promotions in the first half of 2018.