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The Internal Medicine Residency Program held its annual Resident Research Night on May 4.

The event included a poster session and presentations by the Califf Medicine Research Award nominees, the annual research prizes dedicated to promoting resident research. 

The Department of Medicine Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee will host Valerie Ashby, PhD, Dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Duke University, for the annual Phillips-Winn Memorial Medicine Grand Rounds presentation on Fri., May 12, at 8 a.m.

William Kraus, MD, professor of medicine (cardiology), was one of four faculty in the School of Medicine to be awarded a distinguished professorship.

Duke Division of Gastroenterology faculty and fellows are preparing to present at Digestive Disease Week, May 6-9, in Chicago.

Three physicians from Duke were entered a local Triathlon that, last minute, changed to Duathlon because of storms: Sharon Rubin (GIM), Jeff Clough (GIM), and Don Hegland (Cardiology). These doctors took the race by storm though, finishing 2nd and 3rd in their age groups.

The Duke Center for Palliative Care is pleased to announce a new annual award to recognize palliative care excellence outside of specialist palliative care services.  The Palliative Care Advocacy Award will honor members of the Duke Health community who are NOT part of Duke’s palliative care program who demonstrate an exceptional commitment to integrating the key elements of palliative care into their daily work. 

The Duke Molecular and Physiology Institute is pleased to announce that Jonathan Campbell, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition), and Mark Herman, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition), are the 2017 Borden Scholars recipients.

Matthew Sparks, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Nephrology), has been named an ASCI 2017 Young Physician-Scientist Award recipient. 

GetData@Duke is a CTSI-funded program designed to increase awareness of the various data resources available to Duke’s clinical research community (clinicians, faculty, fellows, residents, staff, investigators, and research navigators) and provide directions for accessing these resources.

Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine, and Lawrence Carin, PhD, vice provost for research, invite faculty, trainees, and students to a special lecture by Warren Kibbe, PhD, director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology at the National Cancer Institute.