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All Duke Medicine providers will be required to complete specialty-specific ICD-10 online training modules by September 15, 2015.

The modules are tailored to your specialty and intended to help you prepare for ICD-10 by learning relevant changes in coding and documentation.

Clarissa Jonas Diamantidis, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine and Nephrology), started her residency at Duke focused on cardiology.

“My father was a Black-Hispanic cardiologist with an interest in health disparities and access to care,” she says, “and I was intent on following in his footsteps.”

However, during nephrology rounds she became fascinated with kidney disease. Her first visit to a dialysis unit sealed the deal: “It was full of black patients hooked up to ominous-looking machines, with a striking deficiency of white patients. At that moment, I decided I wanted to study nephrology.”

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Manal Abdelmalek, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine (Gasteroenterology), is part of a team that has received a 2015-16

It's time to start preparing applications for the 2016 DTRI Pilot Funding opportunities.

Duke researchers made a big splash in the news last spring when 60 Minute

Gentzon Hall, MD, PhD, medical instructor (Nephrology), was recently awarded funding for his research project entitled, “Novel

Three times for this one. Saumil Chudgar, MD, Duke hospitalist and director of undergraduate medical education for the Department of Medicine, just received recognition from the

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Stefanie Sarantopoulos, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine (Hematological Malignancies and Cellular Therapy) has received notice of her first R01 award from NIH to to determine mechanisms that drive or suppress pathological B cells after hematopoietic cell transplantation, so that targeted and preventative therapies can be effectively devised.