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The Duke Department of Medicine each year recognizes individuals who have made notable impacts that move medicine forward and have created sustained legacies that help share our institution. Meet the 2025 Career Achievement Awardees, Dr. Roger Liddle, Virginia Kraus and Stephen Smith.

The Kimberley J. Evans Legacy Award acknowledges and celebrates exemplary faculty members that have made substantive efforts to advance diversity among trainees or faculty, advocate for equal career development and opportunities for medicine residents, fellows and/or faculty, promote institutional culture change and community building, and/or foster an environment of inclusion and belonging in the department and beyond. 

The Education Achievement Award recognizes faculty who have shown exceptional dedication to the art and practice of teaching, are beloved by former students, trainees, and faculty members, and who have made a positive impact on individuals' learning and careers. 

Katherine Garman, MD, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Neil L. Spector Art of Medicine Award.

The Duke Department of Medicine is proud to honor administrative leaders who exemplify the values of excellence, collaboration, and service across all missions of the department.

The Department of Medicine recognizes 13 faculty members with 2025 Excellence in Education Awards in recognition of their outstanding work and dedication to the education of its fellows, residents and students.

For Dr. Senthil Selvaraj, a heart failure physician-scientist in the Duke Heart Center, and an assistant professor of Medicine in the Duke Molecular Physiology Institute and the Division of Cardiology, the path to improving care for patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) starts with a deceptively simple question: what does the heart and skeletal muscle actually use for fuel—and can we change that?

More than four decades ago, Dr. Michael Hershfield arrived at Duke with a passion for understanding purine metabolism and its link to human disease.

Nwora Lance Okeke, MD, MPH, associate professor of Medicine and Population Health Science, is the recipient of the 2025 Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) Award for Contributing to the Diversity and Inclusiveness of the Translational Workforce.

The Duke Department of Medicine deeply values its administrative professionals and the significant impact that they have on our daily operations. In honor of Administrative Professionals Day on Wednesday, April 23, we are celebrating our administrative heroes who goes above and beyond the call of duty.