Grand Rounds 8/30/13: M&M Conference
Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Aug. 30 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Peter Kussin, MD, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine) and Jason Stout, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases), with a case presentation by Laura Caputo, MD, senior assistant resident.
Dr. Kussin and Dr.
Lugar receives award for research on Common Variable Immune Deficiency
Patricia Lugar, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care), has received a $1.3 million award that will support research into the genetic mechanisms that give rise to Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID).
Scott Palmer named Vice Chair for Research
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Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine, shared the following message today with faculty, fellows, residents and staff.
I’m pleased to share the news that Scott Pa
Grand Rounds 3/1/13: Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome after lung transplantation
Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., March 1 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Scott Palmer, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care), and Wayne Tsuang, MD.
Dr. Palmer and Dr.
Transplant translational research colloquium met in December
In early December, Scott Palmer, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine) and Kent Weinhold, PhD, professor of surgery and immunology, convened the Duke Solid Organ Transplant Translational Research Interdisciplinary Colloquium.
Forty Duke faculty, staff, fellows, and postdoctoral scholars – including clinicians and research scientists from the Departments of Medicine and Surgery, as well as Immunology, Pediatrics, Patholo
Piantadosi book looks at past and future of space exploration
Claude Piantadosi, MD, professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine), is author of a new book about human space flight.
Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration (2013:
Cox recipient of PCORI grant for comparative effectiveness research
Christopher Cox, MD, MHA, MPH, assistant professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine), will receive a grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), which today announced its first round of funding for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research projects.
Cox's project is "Improving Psychological Distre
Kraft selected to be chief of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the department, announced today that Monica Kraft, MD, has agreed to become the Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, effective January 1, 2013.
Dr.
Noble, pulmonary chief, to leave Duke at end of year
Paul Noble, MD, who has served as chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine since 2006, will be leaving Duke at the end of the year to move across the country. Dr.
Grand Rounds 8/10/2012: Advances in Lung Cancer Evaluation and Management
Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., August 10 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Momen Wahidi MD, MBA, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine) and Jeffrey Crawford, MD, George Barth Geller Professor for Research in Cancer and chief of the Division of Medical Oncology.
They will present Return of the Advances in Lung Cancer Evaluation and Management.
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