The Duke Department of Medicine annually hosts keynote presentations highlighting diversity and inclusion and innovation.
Learn more about each series and see a list of past presenters.
Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Medicine Grand Rounds
Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Medicine Grand Rounds, hosted by the Department of Medicine's Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee, honors the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and is held on the Friday before the MLK holiday.
Past Speakers:
| Year | Speaker | Presentation Title |
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| 2021 | Darrell M. Gray, II, MD, MPH, FACG Associate Professor College of Medicine, The Ohio State University |
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Investing in Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion |
| 2020 | Damon Tweedy, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Author, Black Man in a White Coat |
Reflections on Race and Medicine |
| 2019 | Hannah Valantine, MD, MRCP NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity |
NIH Addresses the Science of Diversity: Looking Through a Genomic Lens |
| 2018 |
Kimberly Johnson, MD |
REACH Equity: Responding to the ‘Fierce Urgency of Now' |
| 2017 | Jamy Ard, MD | A Patient with Obesity Walks Into Your Clinic: Designing Effective Obesity Treatments for Key Populations |
| 2016 |
Kevin Thomas, MD |
Educational Videos to Address Racial Disparities in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators via Innovative Designs: The VIVID Study |
| 2015 |
Courtney Fitzhugh |
Reversal and Prevention of Organ Damage to Reduce Mortality in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease |
Clipp-Speer Women in Medicine Visiting Professorship
Clipp-Speer Women in Medicine Visiting Professorship, hosted by the Department of Medicine and PWIM (Program for Women in Internal Medicine), honors the memory and contributions of two faculty members who were trailblazers in the Duke Department of Medicine: Elizabeth "Jody" Clipp, PhD, RN, and Marcy Speer, PhD.
Past Speakers:
| Speaker | Presentation Title |
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| 2021: Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine Assistant Dean, Scholarship & Discovery, Pritzker School of Medicine Associate Chief Medical Officer - Clinical Learning Environment University of Chicago |
Sustaining and Salvaging Innovation in a Pandemic World: From IGNITE to IMPACT |
| 2020: Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
Shaping Health Policy During the Pandemic |
| 2019: Victoria J. Fraser, MD Adolphus Busch Professor of Medicine Chairman, Department of Medicine Washington University School of Medicine |
Promoting Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in Academic Medicine |
| 2018: Redonda Miller, MD President, The Johns Hopkins Hospital |
Healthcare Transformation and the Evolving Role of Hospitals |
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2017: Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE |
Coming to Peace with Uncertainty: Breast Cancer Screening and Prevention in 2017 |
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2016: Serpil Erzurum |
Biomarkers for Precision Care of Asthma |
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2015: Reshma Jasgi |
Promoting Gender Equity and Success in Academic Medicine |
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2014: I-Min Lee, MBBS, ScD |
Physical Activity and Health: How Much Exercise Do I Need? |
| 2012: Nancy Brown, MD Hugh Jackson Morgan Professor, Medicine and Pharmacology Chair and Physician-in-Chief Department of Medicine Vanderbilt University |
Mechanism-directed application of ACE inhibitors: It’s not ARBitrary |
Phillips-Winn Memorial Medicine Grand Rounds
Phillips-Winn Memorial Medicine Grand Rounds, hosted by the Department of Medicine's Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee (MRRC), honors former faculty, George Phillips, who founded the Department’s MRRC, and Michelle Winn, who served as Chair of MRRC and was active in PWIM.
- George Phillips, MD, drove the creation of and then led the Duke-UNC Sickle Cell Center. In addition, he was the founder of the Department of Medicine Minority Recruitment Committee (later re-named MRRC). He is remembered as a skilled and compassionate clinician, and as an outspoken advocate for human rights. I personally had the great pleasure of knowing and learning from George as member of MRC under his leadership. He died in 1994 at the age of 39 years.
- Michelle Winn, MD, was an outstanding scientist who contributed major breakthroughs in unraveling the causes of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a common cause of end stage kidney disease particularly in African Americans. I personally greatly admired Michelle as a role model, devoted mentor, skillful chair of MRRC, and quite simply, a wonderful and beloved colleague. Michelle died in July 2014 at the age of 48 years.
Past Speakers:
| Speaker | Presentation Title |
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| 2021: Giselle Corbie, MD, MSc Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research Associate Provost for Rural Initiatives |
Lessons Learned in Advancing Health Equity Through Community-Engaged Research |
| 2020: Shawn M. Bediako, PhD Director, Office of Education (Division of Intramural Research) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute |
Sickle Cell Disease and the Science of Race |
| 2019: Opeyemi Olabisi, MD, PhD Division of Nephrology |
Trading Kidneys for Time: The Story of APOL1 Nephropathy and The Use of Stem-Cell Approach to Understand It |
| 2018: Charles D. Howell, MD Professor of Medicine Director of the Viral Hepatitis Center Howard University College of Medicine |
Eliminating Hepatitis C in the United States |
| 2017: Marie Bernard, MD Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging |
From Mice to Men: Highlights of the National Institute on Aging Research |
| 2017: Valerie Ashby, PhD | My Career Journey and Lessons in Mentoring |
| 2016: Deidra Crews, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology Associate Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion, Department of Medicine John Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Unequal: The Story of Chronic Kidney Disease |
| 2015: Jennifer Cousar | Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics: Great Strides and Future Directions |
| 2013: Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MS, MPH Professor of Population Health and Medicine Director, Division of Health and Behavior Director, Center for Healthful Behavior Change Department of Population Health NYU School of Medicine |
Improving medication adherence in hypertensive African Americans: Results of two behavioral interventions |
| 2011: George A. Mensah, MD, FACC, FACP Director, Heart Health & Global Health Policy PepsiCo Corporate Research & Development |
Food and Beverage Industry Roles in Promoting Population Health: A 21st Century Perspective |
The Eugene A. Stead Jr., MD, Medicine Grand Rounds, hosted by the Chair of the Department of Medicine, honors the legendary Dr. Eugene Stead, who served as chair of the Department of Medicine from 1947 to 1967.
Dr. Stead's leadership lead to the formation of the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Diseases, which grew into the Duke Clinical Research Institute, and he helped make of a new profession when he created the role of physician assistant. Duke's PA program was the first in the country and is currently the top PA program in the nation. We honor Dr. Stead's legacy each year by inviting a visiting professor to speak on health policy, innovation in health care, or other pressing topic in internal medicine.
This presentation is held each November in conjunction with the School of Medicine’s Medical Alumni Weekend.
Past Speakers:
| Speaker | Presentation Title |
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| 2021: J. Frank Wharam, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine Core Faculty Member of Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy |
Detecting Health Policy Effects on Clinical Outcomes and Equity: The Case of Patient Financial Incentives and Diabetes |
| 2020: Nakela L. Cook, MD, MPH Executive Director at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) |
Envisioning PCORI 2.0: Accelerating Innovation to Implementation |
| 2019: Kim A. Eagle, MD, MACC Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal Medicine Director, Samuel and Jean Frankel Cardiovascular Center Michigan Medicine |
Cardiac Risk of Non-Cardiac Surgery: A Piece of my Mind |
| 2018: Vivian Lee, MD President of Health Platforms at Verily |
Technology & Health Care: Evolution, Transformation or Disruption? |
| 2017: Roger M. Stein, PhD Senior Lecturer Finance Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer? |
| 2016: Robert J. Margolis | Population Health or Single Payer - the Future is in our Hands |
| 2015: Mark McClellan Former FDA Comissioner Director of Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy |
Clinician Leadership in Health Care Reform |
| 2014: John B. Simpson, MD (Avinger) | A Brief History of Interventional Devices |
| 2013: Ralph Snyderman Former Chancellor |
From the Bronx to Stockholm via Duke: Bob Lefkowitz's Journey |
| 2012: John Whyte Chief Medical Officer for the Discover Channel
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The Power of Media to Communicate Health Messages |
| 2011: Jack Fuessner Executive Senior Associate Dean for Medical University of South Carolina
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The Future of Health Care: Curiouser and Curiouser |
| 2010: Ed Buckley Vice Dean for Education |
Innovation in Medical Education |
Joseph C. Greenfield Visiting Professor of Medicine
Each year the Department of Medicine Chief Residents invite and host a visiting professor at Medicine Grand Rounds.
Past Speakers:
| Speaker | Presentation Title |
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| 2021: Ethan Basch, MD, MSc Richard M. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Medical Oncology Chief, Division of Oncology Physician-in-Chief, NC Cancer Hospital Professor, Health Policy and Management, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Director, Cancer Outcomes Research Program, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Co-leader, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Lineberger |
Patient-reported Outcomes for Symptom Monitoring in Oncology |
| 2021: Norah Terrault, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine Neil Kaplowitz Endowed Chair for Liver Diseases Chief of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Division Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California |
Chronic Hepatitis B Management: Shifting from Control to Cure |
| 2021: Karen M. Winkfield, MD, PhD Executive Director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance Professor of Radiation Oncology Ingram Professor of Cancer Research Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center |
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Across the Cancer Care Continuum |
| 2019: Chirag Parikh, M.B.B.S., PhD Director, Division of Nephrology Professor of Medicine John Hopkins Medicine |
Novel Biomarkers for Phenotyping Clinical Acute Kidney Injury |
| 2019: Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD Mitchell T. Rabkin, MD Chair Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Chief Academic Officer Beth Israel Lahey Health/BIDMC Faculty Dean for Academic Affairs Harvard Medical School |
Alcoholic Liver Disease: From Bench to Bedside |
| 2019: Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD Professor of Medicine University of California San Francisco Site Director, Internal Medicine Clerkship San Francisco VA Medical Center |
Learning From Cases in Practice & Practice with Cases for Learning |
| 2019: Patrick Conway, MD, MSc President and CEO Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina |
Health System Transformation |
| 2018: Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, MAS Professor and Chair Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Professor of Medicine Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity UCSF School of Medicine |
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Precision Population Health |
| 2018: Sheila Crowe, MD Professor of Medicine University of California San Diego |
What’s the problem with eating wheat? Is it gluten, wheat starch, allergies, the microbiome or something else? |
| 2018: Ned Sharpless, MD Director, National Cancer Institute |
The Dynamic Interplay between Aging and Cancer |
| 2018: Clyde Yancy, MD Vice Dean, Diversity & Inclusion Chief, Division of Cardiology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine |
Heart Failure Care in 2018; still a work in progress |
William H. Kane Lecture
Visiting professor invited through the Division of Hematology.
Past Speakers:
| Speaker | Presentation |
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| 2019: Douglas B. Cines, MD Professor of Medicine Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine |
The Physician-Scientist: An Itinerant Species or What I Should Say When My In-Laws Ask Me What Kind of a Doctor I Am? |
| 2017: David Ginsburg, MD James V. Neel Distinguished Professor University of Michigan |
Cargo Receptors in the ER: From Clotting Factor to Cholesterol Regulation |
| 2016: J. Evan Sadler | Von Willebrand Factor, ADAMTS13 and Thrombotic Microangiopathy |