Designed to Inspire: RESURP Puts Students on the Road to Health Equity Work
For eight weeks every summer, four competitively selected, eagerly excited and ambitious undergraduate juniors and seniors get the chance to come to Duke to participate in the REACH Equity Summer Undergraduate Research Program (RESURP).
Duke Reaches Halfway Mark for Goals-of-Care Conversations with Seriously Ill Patients
More than 10,000 Duke patients die each year. Ideally, all of those patients should have the opportunity to discuss their goals in the last six months of life, a target that Duke University Health System and palliative care leaders set in 2021 as part of the Goal Concordant Care Initiative. Eighteen months later, the system is well on the way toward meeting target, and more than half of all Duke Health patients have a goals-of-care conversation documented in the last six months. It’s a win-win—for patients and providers.
Phillips-Winn Memorial Lecture to Focus on Creating a Culture of Respect and Inclusion
The Duke Department of Medicine (DOM) and the Program for Women in Medicine (PWIM) will host a special Friday, October 20, 2023, Medicine Grand Round
Leveling the Playing Field: Maria Marquine’s Mission to Advance Latino Health Equity
A bilingual expert in cross-cultural neuropsychology, health disparities, and neurocognitive aging, Maria Marquine, PhD, is giving clinicians across the country the tools they have long needed to identify neurocognitive disorders in the Latino population. She is advancing clinical care for an estimated 40 million native Spanish-speakers across the United States, a critical step toward addressing disparities in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia and promoting health equity.
Ashana Awarded Doris Duke Foundation Grant to Fund Trauma-Informed ICU Project
Deepshikha Ashana, MD, MA, MBA, assistant professor in the division of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, has been awarded a three-year award of $495,000 to fund her visionary project, Toward a Trauma-Informed Intensive Care Unit, from the Doris Duke Foundation (DDF) to advance human health.
Faculty Promotions August 2023
Congratulations to the following faculty members for their recent appointment or promotion in the Department of Medicine.
Honoring Dr. Kimberley Evans
The following message was sent to members of the Department of Medicine from Dr. Kathleen Cooney, MD, MACP, chair of the Department of Medicine, Dr.