Division News

New Duke Cardiovascular Research Center: Coffman is director

Thomas Coffman, MD, professor of medicine and chair of the Division of Nephrology, will serve as director of the new Duke Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC), which will provide an intellectual home for cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary, bench-oriented research that unites researchers from around the Duke University campus and across the globe. The major objective of the CVRC is to solidify, enhance and support outstanding cardiovascular research from the basic discovery end of the translational resear

Essay: communication a fundamental skill

Jane Schell, MD, fellow in the Division of Nephrology, and James Tulsky, MD, professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine) and director of Duke Center for Palliative Care, contributed an essay about communication s