Division News

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Dec. 12 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Claude Piantadosi, MD, professor of medicine and interim chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Piantadosi will present Why is Severe Sepsis So Severe? Watch from your desk: If you can’t make Medicine Grand Rounds this week, click here to watch a live stream (just enter your Duke Net ID and password.

The final meeting of the Duke Red Blood Cell Transfusion Colloquium will take place Mon., Nov. 3 at 4:00 p.m.

Lindsay Boole, MD, MPH, senior assistant resident, has been chosen to serve as the Durham VA Medical Center chief resident for quality improvement and patient safety for 2015-16. Dr.

Congratulations to Momen Wahidi, MD, MBA, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine). Dr.

Monica Kraft, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, will leave Duke in December to become chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine at Tucson. Dr.

Scott Palmer, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine), has received $12.95 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to establish a Lung Transplant Clinical Trials Network (LT-CTN) as part of the Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation (CTOT) program.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute announced this week that the DCRI, in conjunction with RTI International, will serve as data coordinating center for the Molecular Atlas of Lung Development Program (LungMAP). Scott Palmer, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine) and director of the DCRI’s pulmonary research program, will serve as principal investigator for the coordinating center.

The Department of Medicine's Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee will host a presentation and dinner from 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Mon., June 16 in Duke North Room 1103. The guest speaker is Isaretta Riley, MD, a third-year fellow in Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Riley will present "Pursuing A Career in Academic Medicine." Dinner will be served. To reserve a seat, email LaVerne Johnson-Pruden, lj.pruden@duke.edu.

Momen Wahidi, MD, MBA, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine) and director of Interventional Pulmonology and Bronchoscopy, was recently featured in a news story on WRAL. In the video, you'll see Dr. Wahidi talk about a study at Duke that uses lung coils to treat patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Patients undergo a procedure in which a bronchoscope sent into the lungs releases up to 10 coils inside the damaged areas.

Two Department of Medicine faculty were awarded distinguished professorships and recognized at a May 1 dinner at the Washington Duke Inn.