The MedicineNews blog continues to be the primary way that we feature the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, trainees and staff of the Duke Department of Medicine.
In 2016, we shared 433 news stories, including posts about faculty and trainee awards and honors, research and diversity profiles and 33 funding opportunities. Find highlights below. We also redesigned MedicineNews to help you find the information you need. Take a tour.
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Highlights
Top news and changes
- New president named for Duke University: Penn's Vincent Price
- Manesh Patel to serve as chief of the Division of Cardiology
- Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program celebrates Fellowship Match 2016-17
- Kevin Thomas named Assistant Dean for Underrepresented Faculty Development
- Ebony Boulware to lead Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute
- David Casarett to lead Duke Palliative Care Services
- Cathy Wood to serve as Vice Chair for Administration
- New mission statement for Duke Health: Advancing health together
- Robert Califf confirmed to lead FDA
- Chief residents for 2017-18 announced
- Lesley Curtis to direct SoM Center for Population Health Sciences
Big grants
- Fourteen from Department of Medicine named Duke Health Scholars and Fellows
- Matthew Maciejewski awarded $2.2 million NIDA grant
- Thomas Ortel receives PCORI award for study of anticoagulants
- Duke Aging Center renews prestigious Claude D. Pepper center award
- Kenneth Poss receives AHA award to study how heart cells regenerate
- Four from Medicine receive 2016 ENABLE research funding
- Diego Bohórquez receives 2015 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
- Department of Medicine selects five for Chair's Research Award and bridge funding
- Department of Medicine faculty and trainees receive 2016 Innovation Awards
- Corinne Voils receives VA's Research Career Scientist Award
- Rasheeda Hall receives Duke CTSA KL2 Award
Top honors
- John Perfect honored at IDWeek 2016
- David Pisetsky receives American College of Rheumatology's Presidental Gold Medal Award
- Robert Califf receives AHA Research Achievement Award
- Brice Weinberg named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Robert Califf named to the National Academy of Medicine
- Adam Perlman to serve on National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health
- Carla Brady honored by American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
- Neal MacIntyre receives Thomas L. Petty Distinguished Pulmonary Scholar Award
- Chris Willis named one of NC Nursing's Great 100
- William Kraus appointed to 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee
- Scott Palmer elected to Duke Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha honor society
- Geoffrey Ginsburg takes seat on the NIH advisory committee
- Deverick Anderson receives APIC's Distinguished Scientist Award
- Stefanie Sarantopoulos named Triangle Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Woman of the Year
- John Bartlett recognized for research by N.C. Community AIDS Fund
- Susanna Naggie to serve on DHHS Guidelines Panel for Antiretroviral Use in Adults and Adolescents with HIV
- Sunil Rao appointed to VA Field Advisory Group for Cardiology
- Robert Lefkowitz and Barton Haynes named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors