Mohottige elected to Duke University School of Medicine chapter of AOA
Dinushika Mohottige, MD, MPH, fellow in the Division of Nephrology, has been elected to the Duke University School of Medicine chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society for Spring 2019.
Hall and Hanks receive 2019 ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Awards
Two faculty from the Department of Medicine have received 2019 ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Awards from the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Gentzon Hall, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Nephrology), and Brent Hanks, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Medical Oncology) and pharmacology and cancer biology, are among 35 "outstanding physician-scientists" nationally to be recognized.
Two faculty join Department of Medicine as Translating Duke Health Scholars
Two new faculty in the Department of Medicine are among 12 in the School of Medicine who were recruited within the last year as part of the Translating Duke Health (TDH) initiative. These new faculty members—representing a spectrum of career stages—were recruited to Duke because of their expertise in numerous fields including transplantation, neurosurgery, gene therapy, HIV, and more.
Cameron and Teitelman-Grotegut named co-medical directors for clinical access
Blake Cameron, MD, MBI, medical instructor (Nephrology), and Melissa Teitelman-Grotegut, MD, associate professor of medicine (Gastroenterology) have been named co-medical directors for clinical access in the Department of Medicine.
Improving Quality of Life in Older Patients with Kidney Disease
Rasheeda Hall, MD, MBA, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (Nephrology), is drawn to complexity. When she was a resident at Duke, she says, “I felt a heart tug to nephrology because these patients were sicker and more complex patients.”
Today, after completing a fellowship in Nephrology at Duke, she is a geriatric nephrologist, with the goal of making life simpler and better for these patients. She is using tools from geriatrics and pharmacology in her quest to improve quality of life and address patient goals of care. Dr. Hall hopes some of her work eventually will help inform geriatric nephrology on a larger scale.
Faculty promotions from January through June 2018
Congratulations to the following Department of Medicine faculty who received promotions in the first half of 2018.
Department announces first recipients of new health data science funding program
Joseph Rogers, MD, interim chair of the Department of Medicine, has notified four Medicine faculty that they will receive funding under the new Chair’s Pilot Project Grants in Health Data Science.
Northwestern’s Xunrong Luo, kidney transplant researcher and clinician, to take leadership role at Duke Transplant Center
Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD, Margaret Gray Morton Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University, will join the Duke Division of Nephrology on September 1, 2018. Dr. Luo, a kidney transplant expert, will serve as director of translational research for the Duke Transplant Center.
Divisions select faculty recipients for 2018 Excellence in Education Awards
The recipients of the Department of Medicine faculty Excellence in Education Awards have been announced.
Myles Wolf awarded distinguished professorship
Myles Wolf, MD, M.Med.Sc., professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Nephrology, was one of five faculty in the School of Medicine to be awarded a distinguished professorship.