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 2020, we shared 261 news stories, including posts about faculty and trainee awards and honors, research and 12 funding opportunities, as well as news and events from our training programs. Find highlights below.
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Highlights
Top news and changes
- Julius Wilder to serve as vice chair of the MRRC with focus on Black faculty
- Nia S. Mitchell to serve Duke Internal Residency Program as Assistant Program Director for Resident Research and Scholarship
- Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program raises more than $11,000 during 2020 Stead Tread 5K
- Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program celebrates Fellowship Match Day 2020-21
- Daniella Zipkin to serve as chair of Program for Women in Internal Medicine
- Jane Kim leads national VA vaccine project
- Kenneth Goldberg named to the Strategic Academic Advisory Council in the Department of Veterans Affairs
- Faculty promotions approved by Board of Trustees
- Lisa Criscione-Schreiber to serve as Vice Chair for Education
- Our Commitment to Equity
- Susanna Naggie named Vice Dean for Clinical Research for School of Medicine
- Adrian Hernandez named Vice Dean and new Executive Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute
- Duke joins first national effort to test potential COVID-19 therapy
- Celebrating Match Day 2020
- John Yeatts named CMO for Duke Population Health Management Office
- Chief Residents announced for 2021-2022
- Armanda Bedoya to serve as associate chair for data science
Research News
- Jennifer Rymer receives Women As One 2021 'Escalator Award'
- David Ming and Nirmish Shah are part of the winning team for the HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau's Grand Challenge Competition
- Duke Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine launches statewide COVID-19 Research
- Clinical Researchers Seek Ways to Lessen the Severity of COVID-19
- Irina Mokrova in new role to help faculty refine grant proposals
- New faculty recruit Opeyemi Olabisi is on a mission to revolutionize the prevention and treatment of kidney disease
- Medicine faculty part of ACTIV-3 trial team lauded by NIH
- New Duke NIH study to address race disparities in kidney transplantation
- Lori Orlando receives third large network grant
- Advancing the innovators of the Department of Medicine
- At the intersection of Sickle Cell Disease and Geriatrics with Charity Oyedeji
- Dinushika Mohottige selected for Duke Reach Equity 2020 Career Development Award
- Joshua Thaden and Yen-Rei Andrea Yu receive SOM Strong Start Awards
- Department of Medicine faculty receive 2020 DIHI Innovation Awards
- Kara Wegermann receives the 2020 Mario Family Foundation Award
- Emily Eichenberger receives Chair's Research Award for Trainee Projects
- Jennifer Hamill appointed associate director of the Medicine Clinical Research Unit
- Duke team awarded $1.4 million to train physician-scientists to address Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
Top honors
- 14 Medicine faculty selected for SOM LEADER Program
- Larry Jackson and Jonathan Velez-Rivera named 2021 ADVANCE-UP Scholars
- 5 Infectious Diseases faculty elected Fellows of IDSA
- 2 from Durham VA Health Care receive national awards
- Celebrating Sheroes in the Department of Medicine
- Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program renames Chair's Conference to honor Harvey Cohen
- Kimberley Evans and Tamara Saint-Surin receive Michelle P. Winn Inclusive Excellence Awards
- Divisions select faculty recipients for 2020 Excellence in Education Awards
- Duke Internal Medicine Chief Residents recognize education award recipients
- Miriam Morey receives VA's Paul B. Magnuson Award
- 4 faculty recognized with 2020 DOM Research Mentoring Awards
- Ebony Boulware honored with Duke Medical Alumni Association's 2020 Distinguished Faculty Award
- Kathleen Cooney, Manesh Patel, and Vance Fowler recognized with Distinguished Professorships
- Nour Nazo receives Duke Cardiovascular Research Center's Staff Appreciation Award
- 13 Medicine faculty recognized by the School of Medicine
- 8 trainees from Medicine elected to the Duke University School of Medicine chapter of AOA
- Peter Kussin honored with Duke University Presidential Award
- Keith Sullivan named 2020 recipient of the ASTCT Lifetime Achievement Award