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The joint Pediatric and Medicine Fellows’ Research and Career Development Conference will be held today, Tuesday, March 20, in the Searle Center Lecture Room from 4-5:30 pm. Presentations will be: Pediatric Fellow Research in Progress “Oral Tolerance and the Enteric Microbiome" Laurie McWilliams, MD (Allergy/Immunology) Medicine Fellow Research in Progress “Crossing the Quality-Outcomes Chasm in Oncology through Data-driven Evidence Development” Arif Kamal, MD (Oncology) Career Development Topic “Opportunistic Approach to Health Services F

The joint Pediatric and Medicine Fellows’ Research and Career Development Conference will be held today, Tuesday, Feb.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Feb. 17 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Richard Riedel, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Medical Oncology) and associate director of the Duke Sarcoma Program. Dr.

Gary Lyman, MD, MPH, professor of medicine (Medical Oncology), on camera at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in December talking about the BOLERO-2 trial as a potentially practice-changing development in the field of breast cancer. He added that more agents are needed for the treatment of advanced metastatic disease.

Sandip Patel, MD, first-year hematology-oncology fellow, attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology in San Diego, Calif., and he's posted a number of items, including about lymphoma and myeloma, to the Duke Hematology-Oncology Fellows blog.

Gary Lyman, M.D., MPH, FACP, FRCP, professor of medicine (Medical Oncology), has been elected to the board of directors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the leading professional organization representing more than 30,000 oncologists and others who care for people with cancer. Dr. Lyman will begin his four-year appointment in June 2012.

Duke Magazine feature on Avastin: While a doctor's own experience is one guide to medical care, the evidence from clinical trials may be a better guide. But how much better? With quotes from Gary Lyman, Kim Blackwell, Robert Harrington and Eric Peterson of the Department of Medicine.

A new documentary film about the Duke Pathfinders study will have its premiere showing on Fri., Sept.

The journal Molecular Cancer Research has published - and highlighted - research by Andrew Armstrong, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Medical Oncology) and surgery, and others. Here's what the editors wrote about the article, Circulating Tumor Cells from Patients with Advanced Prostate and Breast Cancer Display Both Epithelial and Mesenchymal Markers:

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Mark Lanasa, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Medical Oncology), has won an NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08) to investigate the the genetics and immunology of early stage Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Dr.