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Neha Pagidipati, MD, MPH, is a cardiovascular prevention specialist dedicated to finding therapies that work for all patients through her combined interests of public health and clinical medicine.

Congratulations to the following faculty members for receiving these sponsored research awards

Dr. King is the medical director of the Duke Liver/Intestine Transplantation Clinic and the Duke Liver Clinic. She works with social workers, psychologists, cancer specialists, pathologists, surgeons, and radiologists, to provide a full spectrum of care and enhance patient outcomes.  

The Duke Department of Medicine deeply values its administrative professionals and the significant impact that they have on our daily operations.

Duke University Health System (DUHS) has been awarded funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to implement electronic monitoring of patients’ self-reported symptoms during cancer treatment — potentially transforming cancer care at Duke. 

Responding to this critical issue, Dr. A. Ian Wong, assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, is leading a five-year, $3.4 million NIH-funded research initiative aimed at improving clinical detection and management of hidden hypoxemia. The project, in collaboration with researchers from Emory University, leverages advanced machine learning techniques to identify patients at the highest risk using data already present in electronic health records (EHR).

The Duke Department of Medicine deeply values its administrative professionals and the significant impact that they have on our daily operations.

^{The following message was sent to members of the Department of Medicine from Dr. Kathleen Cooney, MD, MACP, chair of the Department of Medicine, Dr. Mary E.}

Leonor Corsino, MD, MHS, associate professor of Medicine and Population Health Sciences in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition, has received a one-year pilot grant from the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI). The study, initiated earlier this year, aims to evaluate an advanced artificial intelligence system, called DeepDKD Plus, designed to predict diabetic kidney disease (DKD) progression using retinal imaging in people with diabetes in the Dominican Republic.

Wendy Prudhomme-O’Meara, PhD — a widely-recognized expert in malaria epidemiology — has dedicated the last two decades to researching community-based approaches for malaria treatment and prevention in Kenya where malaria deaths have fallen by an estimated 50% in the last 15 years due to public health measures. She has been on the frontlines.