1/14/16: School of Medicine's K Day, Career Development Award preparation opportunity
The School of Medicine Office for Faculty Mentoring will host K Day on Thur., Jan. 14, 2016.
2 from Medicine receive Research Staff Appreciation Awards
Two research staff members from the Department of Medicine have received a School of Medicine “Research Staff Appreciation Award,” in recognition of their exemplary support in the conduc
John Perfect on his research: It went fungal
Dr. John Perfect estimates a million cases of cryptococcal disease per year, with 600,000 deaths, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa where AIDS causes widespread immunosuppression. People can develop respiratory symptoms, like pneumonia; if the pathogen crosses the blood-brain barrier, the infection progresses to terrible, long-lasting headaches and sometimes fever. There can even be other neurological signs; cryptococcus can actually cause dementia. The problem is, even though we understand that Cryptococcal disease occurs in the immunosuppressed, we don’t know quite how the fungus sneaks through the blood-brain barrier.
Meet your chief resident: Jennifer Rymer, MD, MBA
A few months into her role as chief resident of internal medicine at Duke University Hospital, Jennifer Rymer, MD, MBA, is foc
Meet New GIM Staff Assistant, Robin Byrd!
Robin Byrd is a recent addition to our GIM team! She will be taking over for Nancy Thomasson, who is counting down the days until retirement (her last day will be December 18).
Residency program celebrates 2015-16 Fellowship Match
The 2015-16 fellowship match was announced today.