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Amateur cartoonist, Dr. Nathan Gray, shares his latest medical cartoon guide about codes status. 

These are heady days for immunotherapy researchers, the scientists making progress unleashing the human immune system against lethal cancers.

Interventions once envisioned in laboratories are now treatments saving the lives of some patients struck by melanoma, kidney cancer, and lung cancer. Promise is rising for treatments against malignancies arising elsewhere as well.

With his new insights into how cancer cells use biochemical signaling to suppress our immune system, Brent Hanks, MD, PhD, is part of this translational momentum.

The School of Medicine’s Office for Faculty is now accepting applications for the ADVANCE-UP Faculty Development Program. Applications are due Jan. 12.

The School of Medicine invites mid-career faculty to register for its "Financial Boot Camp" series, to be held March 1, 8, and 22, 2018. Learn more and register.

The Duke Outpatient Clinic celebrated the holiday season on Friday, December 8 at the lovely home of Dr. Greenblatt. 

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Dec. 18, 2017.

​Wissam Kourany, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Nephrology), has been selected as the next chief of Nephrology at the Durham VA effective Jan. 1, 2018.

Thomas A. Owens, MD, Vice President for Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer for Duke University Health System and associate professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine) and pediatrics, has been has been named the next president of Duke University Hospital, effective Jan. 1, 2018.

Department of Medicine faculty are attending the American Society of Hematology's (ASH) 59th Annual Meeting & Exposition in Atlanta this week. Keep reading for highlights on their research.

The highly regarded SGIM annual meeting will take place April 11-14, 2018, in Denver, CO, and early-bird registration just opened December 14. Here are the details you need to know!