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Dr. Eric Poon has been elected to American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) Fellowship. ACMI is a college of elected fellows who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of biomedical informatics. 

For the last 20 years, Duke Bone Marrow Transplant program patients have been holding annual reunions. The first reunion, held in 1996, was attended by 20 attendees. This year's celebration, held in September, was attended by 400.

Jane Trinh, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and medicine and associate program director of the combined Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program, has been named program director of the Duke Medicine-Pediatrics Residency. 

Dr. David Simel published a case study in "JAMA Diagnostic Test Interpretation", a JAMA series in quiz format showing a patient’s clinical presentation and test result(s).

The following faculty received funding awards in September 2017.

Duke Health has announced its first Translating Duke Health call for proposals for innovative approaches to supporting immune health and high risk/high impact research in the area of the brain and disease. Deadlines are Nov. 1, 2017, Nov. 30, 2017 and Jan. 15, 2018.

The School of Medicine invites faculty to attend a town-hall style panel discussion on Physician-Scientist Honor Societies: Association of American Physicians (AAP) and The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

 Jennifer St. Clair Russell, PhD, presented at the Duke Nephrology Grand Rounds on Friday, September 29.

An international research effort led by Duke Cancer Institute scientists has been working to better understand the genetic underpinnings of diffuse large B cell lymphoma and how those genes might play a role in patients’ responses to therapies. The findings were published this week in the journal Cell.

Dr. Patrick Hemming highlights a few resources that are available at Duke, which have made the academic writing process easier for himself.