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Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., May 25 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Laura Svetkey, MD, professor of medicine (Nephrology) and Manesh Patel, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology). They will present Resistant hypertension: emerging treatments. [toggle title_open="Close Me" title_closed="Video archives" hide="yes" border="yes" style="default" excerpt_length="0" read_more_text="Read More" read_less_text="Read Less" include

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., April 6 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Michael Berkoben, MD, associate professor of medicine (Nephrology). Dr.

The Duke University School of Medicine announced the winners of this year’s SoM Bridge Funding  Program grants in September. Among the recipients are three faculty members from the Department of Medicine – Drs. Gowthami Arepally, Jonathan Stiber and Uptal Patel received grants to continue their research and investigative efforts into allergic responses, age-related muscle atrophy and kidney disease management in diabetics.

Joanna B. Downer, PhD, director of research development in the SOM Office of the Dean, sends this request for proposals: On behalf of Thomas Coffman, MD, professor of medicine (Nephrology) I am soliciting proposals for Pilot & Feasibility (P&F) Projects to be included in an application to establish a George M. O’Brien Kidney Research Core Center at Duke.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Sept. 2 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Patrick H. Pun, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (Nephrology). Dr.

Three Department of Medicine faculty members are among the 2011 graduates of the Chancellor's Clinical Leadership in Academic Medicine Program (CCHAMP), a six-and-a-half-day program delivered over six months to provide education and training that strengthens the pipeline for Duke Medicine's next round of leaders and supports the institution and its culture through engagement and innovation. Participants in CCHAMP work in small groups to study an issue faced by Duke Medicine, and finish with a presentation

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