Division News

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., June 21 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Jeffrey M. Clarke, MD, chief resident of Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Clarke will present Novel Approaches Targeting Tumor Angiogenesis: Recent Advances and Future Strategies. Please note that Grand Rounds will not be recorded or live streamed this week.

Elizabeth Bigger, MD, fellow in Hematology-Oncology, shares her Documenting Medicine project "Financial Toxicity as a Consequence of Cancer Care." [vimeo 67759307 w=400 h=300]   Cancer treatment is incredibly expensive, and places a tremendous burden on patients – even those with insurance. The majority of bankruptcies in the United States are due to unpaid medical bills, and the rate of medical bankruptcies rapidly rises each year.

Thomas W. LeBlanc, MD, MA, fellow in both hospice and palliative medicine and medical oncology, and Yousuf Zafar, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (Medical Oncology) were among the large contingent of Duke oncology faculty who attended the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual conference in Chicago last week. LeBlanc and Zafar both are active users of Twitter.

Please mark your calendars for a presentation by James L. Abbruzzese, MD, FACP, FASCO, DSc (hon.), professor of medicine and Waun Ki Hong Distinguished Char in Translational Oncology, Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, on Thurs., May 23 at 5:30 p.m. in 103 Bryan Research Building. Dr. Abbruzzese will present "Pancreatic Cancer: Recent Progress and a Look Forward."

Amy Abernethy, MD, associate professor of medicine (Medical Oncology) and director of both the Center for Learning Health Care and the Duke Cancer Care Research Program, spoke at TEDMED in April 2013. She presented Can patient data have a second life? Her talk starts around 1:30:00

http://youtu.be/3IMz2DoPJro Kimberly Blackwell, MD, professor of medicine (Medical Oncology) and clinical oncologist at the Duke Cancer Institute, is included in this year's roster of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people. Dr. Blackwell is director of the breast cancer program at Duke Cancer Institute.

Duke Center for Palliative Care's new outpatient palliative care program was recently featured in The News & Observer and on WRAL. [quote style="boxed"]One of the really important characteristics of palliative care is that you don't have to reject curative care.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., April 12 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Steven Patierno, PhD, professor of medicine and deputy director of Duke Cancer Institute; William Lee, MD, professor of radiation oncology and associate professor of surgery; Daniel George, MD, associate professor of medicine (Medical Oncology) and surgery; and Stephen Freedland, MD, associate professor of pathology and surgery. Dr. Patierno, Dr. Lee, Dr. George and Dr.

The Medicine Research Conference returns Fri., Feb. 22 at 12 p.m. in Duke Hospital 2002 with a presentation by David Hsu, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Medical Oncology) and William Dalton Family Assistant Professor of Cancer Genomics. Dr.