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Crystal Tyson, MD, MHS, is empowering patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) to take charge of their health. She’s studying how the right diet can slow disease progression.

Congratulations to the following faculty members for receiving these sponsored research awards

Professor Loretta G. Que, MD, chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Elizabeth A. Rich, MD, Award from the American Thoracic Society (ATS).

For decades, sickle cell disease (SCD) was considered a pediatric condition, with few individuals surviving past early adulthood.

Duke Health interventional pulmonologist Dr. Kamran Mahmood, MD, MPH and the Duke Interventional Pulmonology Team are offering a ground-breaking, promising new treatment procedure for advanced lung cancer patients— pulsed electric field (PEF) ablation.  

Karen Goldstein, MD, associate professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Duke Department of Medicine (DOM), has co-authored a significant systematic review titled “Impact of Genomic Classifiers on Risk Stratification and Treatment Intensity in Patients With Localized Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review,” published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Recognized as one of the most influential journals in medicine, Annals is the most cited general internal medicine journal globally, with a 2023 impact factor of 19.6.

Born in a small town in India to physician parents, Deepshikha Ashana, MD, MBA, MS, naturally developed a love for medicine as a child. She also watched her mother — an obstetrician — walk a professional path that was fraught with gender-based discrimination; an experience that instilled in her the core personal value of equity.    

Dr. Jamie L. Todd, associate professor in the Division Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, is the recipient of the 2025 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) Mitch Greenberg Memorial Award in Lung Transplantation.

Despite wide deployment of post-discharge patient contact strategies and the promise these modes hold for transfers of information and care while avoiding costly subsequent care, many unanswered questions remain about their effectiveness on key health care outcomes. Dr. Joel Boggan shares some enlightening answers in a systematic review of the topic published recently in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Two Duke Department of Medicine faculty members, physician-scientists Opeyemi A. Olabisi, MD, PhD, and Tomokazu Souma, MD, PhD, are among the 2025 researchers elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), one of the nation’s oldest medical honor societies.