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Triangle Health Innovation Challenge is a health hackathon taking place on Sept. 18-20 in the Trent Semans Center.

The School of Medicine has launched the new Center for Statistical Genetics and Genomics. The center, led by Andrew Allen, PhD, professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, will bring together quantitatively-oriented scientists from various disciplines on the Duke campus to address the computational and statistical challenges associated with efforts to use genomics to improve patient care.

If so, you have kindred spirits in two places: (1) in the "North American Primary Care Research Group" and (2) locally, within the "North Carolina Network Consortium".

If so, you have kindred spirits in two places: (1) in the "North American Primary Care Research Group" and (2) locally, within the "North Carolina Network Consortium".

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