News

Congratulations to these general medicine faculty members who are recipients of recent research funding: L. Ebony Boulware received awards from:

Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine, announced that Manesh Patel, MD, will serve as the next Chief of the Division of Cardiology.

Read the Internal Medicine Residency Program director's report, with resident kudos and program reminders, and see this week's Morning Report and Noon Conference schedules.

Richard O'Brien, chair of the Department of Neurology, has alerted the Neurology faculty to the passing of Allen Roses, MD, Jefferson-Pilot Corporation Professor of Neurobiology, and a true giant of American Neurology. He built a powerhouse department, founded the field of neurogenetics and made, what is still today, the most important observation in the field of Alzheimer’s disease, the association of the disease with the APOE4 gene.

Jennifer St Clair-Russell, PhD, joined our division in September. To get to know her a little more, we asked her the following questions:

The Duke Department of Medicine Faculty Development Academy launched in October 2011 a

Leah Zullig, PhD, a health services researcher from DGIM, just returned from an exciting trip to Israel.

MedBlue Incubator Inc. (MBI) is seeking project proposals for its next funding cycle. Deadline is Nov. 15.

Paula Tanabe, PhD, MSN, MPH, RN, FAEN, FAAN, associate professor of nursing and medicine, and Nirmish Shah, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Hematology), are co-principle investigators on a $4.6 million grant entitled “Improving SCD Care using Web-based Guidelines, Nurse Care Managers and Peer Mentors in Primary Care and Emergency Departments in Central NC.”

Four Department of Medicine faculty are among the recipients of the Duke School of Medicine interdisciplinary colloquia awards.