Division News

Infectious Diseases fellow Meredith Clement, MD, has an editorial featured in JAMA this week.

The article, "Syphilis on the Rise: What Went Wrong?" discusses why syphilis has not been eradicated despite a decline of syphilis cases in the late 1990s and the resurgence of cases today.

Paul Lantos, MD, medical instructor (General Internal Medicine), has received a $20,000 grant from Duke University's Educational and Research Initiatives in China (ERIC) program. ERIC funding is intended to help faculty develop innovative education and research programs at the Duke Kunshan University campus and other areas in China.

Congratulations to John Bartlett, MD, for receiving a North Carolina Community AIDS Fund 2016 Red Ribbon Service Award.

Dr. Bartlett was recognized with an award for Innovation in Research. Bartlett is a professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases), nursing and global health.

The Hartwell Foundation considers Duke University as one of its Top Ten Centers of Biomedical Research in the United States, and has invited Duke to submit nominees for the Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Awards program.

Only investigators nominated by the head of an invited research institution are eligible for consideration for the Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award.

Six Department of Medicine faculty were recognized with awards at the School of Medicine's annual Spring Faculty Meeting on May 9.

Four Department of Medicine faculty were recently awarded Enhanced Academics in a Basic Laboratory Environment (ENABLE) program research grants from the PDC. 

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.

Susanna Naggie, MD, associate professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases), has been asked to serve on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Guidelines Panel for Antiretroviral Use in Adults and Adolescents with HIV.

Four faculty members from the Department of Medicine are among the recipients of a new grant program aimed at fostering interactions between researchers in the School of Medicine and the Duke campus. Eight seed grants were awarded to project teams for "Collaborative Quantitative Approaches to Problems in the Basic and Clinical Sciences."

The teams from Medicine are:

Greg Gray, MD, MPH, professor of global health, infectious diseases and environmental sciences, set up a remote research outpost in Mongolia to detect the next global infectious disease pandemic.