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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.

It is no small matter that terminally ill African-Americans patients enroll in hospice less often than white patients. Lower participation contributes to health disparities between the races.

African-American patients are less likely than white patients to have their pain adequately diagnosed and treated, for one. They less often obtain medicine to treat pain and are less satisfied with communication and overall care from health providers.

When geriatrician Kimberly Johnson, MD, MHS, first observed these differences as a resident in the 1990s, she understood immediately that physicians needed to address them. So she did.

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.

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

Kimberly Johnson, MD, associate professor of medicine (Geriatrics) and senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, has received one of 12 NIH awards to fund a specialized research center designed to conduct multidisciplinary research, research training and community engagement activities focused on improving minority health and reducing health disparities.

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.