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Duke AHEAD will host Health Professions Education Day: Working and Learning Together to Advance Health and Wellness for All on Mon., Oct. 16 from 8 a.m.-1:15 p.m. in the Trent Semans Center.

Registration is now open for K Club and Path to Independence grant writing programs, preparing investigators for an February 2018 NIH deadline. Application is due Friday, Sept. 29. 

The School of Medicine departments, institutes and centers oversee a wide range of research core facilities. To enable investigators to access these services for exciting new studies that are not yet externally funded, we are pleased to announce the 2017 Fall Core Facility Voucher Program. The current submission deadline is Oct. 20, 2017.

The following faculty received funding awards in August 2017.

Dean Mary Klotman, MD, announced that Adrian Hernandez, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology), will serve as the new vice dean for clinical research for the Duke University School of Medicine.

The Duke Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center has announced three opportunities for funding beginning July 1,  2018. Letters of interest are due Nov. 1, 2017.

The Duke Project Management Community of Practice (PMCoP) will hold its official launch event on Wed. Oct. 4, 2017 from 4-5 p.m. in 131 Hanes House. 

Chenita Jackson started her role as a new patient navigator for the Advance Care Planning initiative at the Duke Outpatient Clinic back in August.

The Duke Global Health Institute's Evidence Lab recently developed a series of tools to help social enterprises in healthcare evaluate their services, products and/or technologies. One of the evaluation tools (#3 of 5) was co-authored by GIM's own Santanu Datta, PhD. 

How do you communicate information to a clinic that includes around 10 non-clinical staff, 10 nurses/medical assistants, 70 residents, 6 attendings, multiple preceptors, and numerous clinicians from many other disciplines?  That’s been an on-going discussion at the DOC and now the team is trying something new!