Division News

Lynn Howie, MD, fellow in the Division of Medical Oncology and the Duke Clinical Research Institute, is lead author on this article that appears in the July 2014 issue of Health Affairs. Dr. Howie was in the inaugural cohort of the Duke Learning Health System Training Program.

North Carolina Oncology Navigator Association, co-lead by Duke Cancer Institute and the Lineberger Cancer Center at UNC, is hosting a symposium Fri., June 6, from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at UNC's William & Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill. The topic is "Patient Navigation at the Crossroads…Challenges and Opportunities." The symposium will enable participants to understand the evolution of Patient Navigation and recognize both the challenges and opportunities of emerging models and help enable implementation efforts.

The Association of American Physicians (AAP) and the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) held the ASCI/AAP joint meeting in Chicago recently and inducted several new members into their prestigious groups.

ASCI

The ASCI inducted three researchers from Duke Department of Medicine.

• Michael Felker, MD, MHS, professor of medicine (Cardiolog

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., March 21 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Kimberly Blackwell, MD, professor of medicine (Medical Oncology). Dr.

Steven Patierno, PhD, professor of medicine (Medical Oncology) and deputy director of the Duke Cancer Institute, will receive $830,000 in grant funding from the Department of Defense to support his study of the Validation and Interrogation of Differentially Expressed and Alternatively Spliced Genes in African-American Prostate Cancer. "This is a great testament to the collaborati

The Duke Institute for Health Innovation will fund two new, collaborative faculty projects that aim to improve care for breast cancer patients and individuals undergoing stem cell transplants. The projects are the first to be funded by Duke's new multidisciplinary institute that promotes innovation in health care through research, leadership development and entrepreneurship.

Duke University and the University of Colorado schools of medicine have received a $10 million grant from the National Institute for Nursing Research (NINR), part of the National Institutes of Health, to continue development of the Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group over the next five years.

The Duke Cancer Institute has announced that Hope E. Uronis, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (Medical Onocology), will be DCI's associate clinical director. In this capacity, Dr.

The Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) is pleased to announce the first round of funding for the Cancer Survivorship Center pilot research projects.

This weekend a number of Department of Medicine faculty and trainees will be participating in the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Quality Care Symposium, which brings together leaders in the field to share new strategies, methods, and technologies for measuring and improving the quality of cancer care. Here's a list of those who will be representing Duke:

• "Developing a virtual collaborative to facilitate palliative care and quality improvement learning in oncology." Kamal, McNiff, Prestrud, Lupu, Zafar, Gavigan, Schilsky, Abernethy.