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Medicine Research Conference will take place Fri., March 27 at 12 p.m. in Duke Hospital 2002 with a presentation by Christina Barkauskas, MD, medical instructor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Barkauskas will present Understanding the cell biology of pulmonary fibrosis.

Ann Marie Navar-Boggan, MD, PhD, fellow in the Division of Cardiology, was elected to the Duke University School of Medicine chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., March 20 at 8 a.m.

The Private Diagnostic Clinic, (PDC), the faculty medical practice at Duke, has announced a call for applications for the Enhanced Academics in a Basic Laboratory Environment (ENABLE) program, which will provide salary support for PDC members to spend a substantial portion of their effort (at least 25%) working with a primary research group.

Kaiser Permanente and the Cancer Research Network, with support from the National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases,

Megan Brooks, MD, MPH is a medical instructor in the Department of Medicine. She teaches second-year medical students, coordinates care plans, helps develop the curriculum for the Duke Physician Assistant (PA) hospital medicine rotation, and sees patients with everything from heart failure to complications of knee replacement.

The members of the Association of Professors in Medicine (APM) have elected Mary

Residents in the Ambulatory Care Leadership Track traveled to Raleigh on March 4 for an advocacy day at the N.C. General Assembly. Trainees met with N.C. House and N.C. Senate health care leadership.

Residents also shared patient’s stories in an effort to make their struggles come to life for legislators.

Overall, the residents were very well received at the Capitol and found the experience both powerful and illuminating.

Eight years after she helped create Duke University’s health research project based at the North Carolina Research Campus, Kristin Newby, MD, MHS, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and faculty member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, has become the lead scientist for the MURDOCK Study.

Dr. Newby replaces Rob Califf, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology), as the MURDOCK Study’s principal investigator. Dr. Califf was recently named deputy commissioner for Medical Products and Tobacco at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Newby’s new role comes on the heels of her prestigious induction in January into the Association of University Cardiologists (AUC).

Please mark your calendars for Dean Nancy Andrew's State of the School address at 5 p.m. Tues., March 17 in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center.