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Duane Davis, MD, professor of surgery, at left, and David Zaas, MD, MBA, assistant professor of medicine, celebrating with lung transplant recipient Amber Wesemann at the recent Lungapalooza event. The event, attended by lung transplant patients, their family and Duke transplant services staff, raised more than $30,000. The highlight of the event, said Wesemann, was up-and-coming Nashvill

David Zaas, MD, MBA, assistant professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine) and vice chair for clinical practice, has taken on the role of chief medical officer of the Private Diagnostic Clinic.

The Medicine Research Conference returns Fri., Sept. 30 at 12 pm in Duke Hospital 2002 with presentations by Robert M Tighe, MD, medical instructor, and Paul Noble, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine.

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Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Sept. 16 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Momen M.

Dean Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, has announced the recipients of the School's first round of Biology of Aging Initiative pilot studies (original RFA here), and three of the six have gone to Medicine faculty:

• Kent R. Nilsson, Jr., MD, MA, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology) and Vann Bennett, MD, PhD, James B.

Learn more about the lung transplant program's recent growth and improved outcomes.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., July 22 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Yuh-Chin Tony Huang, MD, MHS, professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine). Dr.

Geoff Ginsburg, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and pathology and director of the Center for Genomic Medicine in the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, learned that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will award a Duke research

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., July 22 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature John S. Sundy, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine) and director of the Global Proof of Concept Unit Network at Duke Clinical Research Institute. Dr.

Howard Rockman, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology), has been elected editor-in-chief of The Journal of Clinical Investigation. Rockman will serve as editor from March 2012 through February 2017 together with an editorial board base