Division News

Three Department of Medicine faculty members were among the 13 members of the School of Medicine and School of Nursing faculty named to endowed professorships by Duke University on April 26, 2011. Congratulations to the following:

Shiao-Wen David Hsu, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Medical Oncology), was named the William Dalton Family Assistant Professor in Medical Oncology.

Victoria Seewaldt, MD, professor of medicine (Medical Oncology), is co-PI on an ARRA grant looking for answers to the disparity in breast cancer death rates for black and white women. That effort, dubbed the REACH Project (Reaching, Educating, and Advocating to Change Health), is featured in this National Institute of Environmental H

Christopher Woods, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases) has been elected to the Academic Council of Duke University.

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Congratulations to Sascha Tuchman, MD, medical instructor in the department of medicine (Oncology), for passing both heme and med onc boards. Also congratulations to  Nicole Kuderer, MD, medical instructor in the department of medicine (Oncology), for receiving the K-award in Translational Comparative Effectiveness.

Linda Sutton, MD, associate professor of medicine (Medical Oncology), has been selected to be the next president-elect for the North Carolina Oncology Association.

Doug Stokke, associate vice president for Duke Medicine News and Communications, announced to Duke Cancer Institute administration and faculty that  Sarah Avery, the health and medicine reporter for the News & Observer for the past 11 years, will be joining the Duke Medicine News & Communications group.

Gary H. Lyman, MD, MPH, professor of medicine (Medical Oncology) has been selected to be on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Dr.

Philip M. Rosoff, MD, MA, professor of medicine (Medical Oncology) and pediatrics and director of the Duke Hospital Program in Clinical Ethics, announces the start of a monthly Clinical Ethics Round Table Discussion Group, a forum for the presentation of complex, confusing and challenging cases and topics in clinical care.

Duke University and the University of Colorado School of Medicine have received a $7.1 million grant from the National Institute for Nursing Research to create the nation’s first palliative care research cooperative group, a consortium that will promote and conduct studies leading to better ways of relieving suffering and improving quality of life for patients who have advanced, potentially life-limiting illnesses.

“Palliative care research has been hampered by a lack of resources and standard methodologies,” says