Division News

A journal article by Thomas LeBlanc, MD, associate professor of medicine (Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy), and Amy Abernethy, MD, adjunct professor of medicine (Medical Oncology), has been recognized as a paper that could "Change the World, One Article At A Time" by Springer Nature journals.

Registration is open for the School of Medicine's Clinical Research Day from 4-7:30 p.m. on May 17 in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center.

Ned Sharpless, MD, director of the National Cancer Institute, will present at Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., March 23 at 8 a.m. in Duke North Room 2002.

7 faculty from the Department of Medicine will participate in the School of Medicine's LEADER program.

These are heady days for immunotherapy researchers, the scientists making progress unleashing the human immune system against lethal cancers.

Interventions once envisioned in laboratories are now treatments saving the lives of some patients struck by melanoma, kidney cancer, and lung cancer. Promise is rising for treatments against malignancies arising elsewhere as well.

With his new insights into how cancer cells use biochemical signaling to suppress our immune system, Brent Hanks, MD, PhD, is part of this translational momentum.

David Casarett, MD, section chief of Palliative Care, and Arif Kamal, MD, MHS, MBA, associate professor of medicine (Medical Oncology), are among 30 individuals who have been recognized by the American Academcy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine as "Visionaries in Hospice and Palliative Medicine."

Medicine Grand Rounds on Nov. 10, 2017 will feature MIT's Roger M. Stein, PhD, giving the Eugene A. Stead Jr., MD, Lecture.

Duke University’s Health Data Sciences Center has assembled a clinical faculty leadership team and will be renamed Duke Forge.

Congratulations to Yousuf Zafar, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (Medical Oncology), for his election in the Duke University School of Medicine chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society as faculty for Fall 2017.

Five teams from the Department of Medicine have received 2017 Innovation awards from Duke Institute for Health Innovation.