Learning from People who Recover from Heart Failure
For most people, heart failure is a terminal condition but not for everyone. With a grant from Translating Duke Health, Ravi Karra, MD, is bringing together Duke researchers from basic scientists to clinical researchers to try to find biomarkers that can identify these patients and improve patient outcomes.
Internal Medicine Residency News, July 23, 2018
Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for July 23, 2018.
Second quarter 2018 - GIM funding awards
3 General Internal Medicine faculty members are recipients of recent research funding.
Meet your chief resident: Kara Wegermann, MD
Kara Wegermann, MD, is the 2018-19 chief resident for internal medicine at the Durham VA Medical Center. Dr. Wegermann is a graduate of Stanford University and received her MD at Harvard Medical School. As chief resident, Dr. Wegermann will serve as a mentor to the residents and be a liaison to the administration.
Northwestern’s Xunrong Luo, kidney transplant researcher and clinician, to take leadership role at Duke Transplant Center
Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD, Margaret Gray Morton Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University, will join the Duke Division of Nephrology on September 1, 2018. Dr. Luo, a kidney transplant expert, will serve as director of translational research for the Duke Transplant Center.
Mitchell: overcoming hurdles in health disparities research
Dr. Nia Mitchell presents to members at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in the Obesity Health Disparities (OHD PRIDE) group
Internal Medicine Residency News, July 16, 2018
Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for July 16, 2018.
Faculty Spotlight: Jeremy Cypen, MD
Meet Dr. Cypen, a hospitalist at the Durham VA who joined our division earlier this month
Funding opp: SoM Interdisciplinary Colloquia 2018
The School of Medicine is accepting applications for its eighth annual RFP to provide support for interdisciplinary colloquia that bring together basic, translational, clinical and data science faculty members with common interests in a biomedical problem or area. All submissions must be received on or before 11:59 p.m., Aug. 9, 2018.