John Perfect on his research: It went fungal
Dr. John Perfect estimates a million cases of cryptococcal disease per year, with 600,000 deaths, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa where AIDS causes widespread immunosuppression. People can develop respiratory symptoms, like pneumonia; if the pathogen crosses the blood-brain barrier, the infection progresses to terrible, long-lasting headaches and sometimes fever. There can even be other neurological signs; cryptococcus can actually cause dementia. The problem is, even though we understand that Cryptococcal disease occurs in the immunosuppressed, we don’t know quite how the fungus sneaks through the blood-brain barrier.
Meet your chief resident: Jennifer Rymer, MD, MBA
A few months into her role as chief resident of internal medicine at Duke University Hospital, Jennifer Rymer, MD, MBA, is foc
Meet New GIM Staff Assistant, Robin Byrd!
Robin Byrd is a recent addition to our GIM team! She will be taking over for Nancy Thomasson, who is counting down the days until retirement (her last day will be December 18).
Residency program celebrates 2015-16 Fellowship Match
The 2015-16 fellowship match was announced today.
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School updates its name
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore has changed its name to Duke-NUS Medical School, Dean Thomas Coffman, MD, announced in an email on Monday.
Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Leadership program enrolling for two spring courses
The Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Leadership program is accepting enrollment for two spring courses.