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Residents in the Ambulatory Care Leadership Track traveled to Raleigh on March 4 for an advocacy day at the N.C. General Assembly. Trainees met with N.C. House and N.C. Senate health care leadership.

Residents also shared patient’s stories in an effort to make their struggles come to life for legislators.

Overall, the residents were very well received at the Capitol and found the experience both powerful and illuminating.

Eight years after she helped create Duke University’s health research project based at the North Carolina Research Campus, Kristin Newby, MD, MHS, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and faculty member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, has become the lead scientist for the MURDOCK Study.

Dr. Newby replaces Rob Califf, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology), as the MURDOCK Study’s principal investigator. Dr. Califf was recently named deputy commissioner for Medical Products and Tobacco at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Newby’s new role comes on the heels of her prestigious induction in January into the Association of University Cardiologists (AUC).

Please mark your calendars for Dean Nancy Andrew's State of the School address at 5 p.m. Tues., March 17 in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center.

The Duke O’Brien Center for Kidney Research is funding up to three Pilot & Feasibility Projects for the 2015-16 academic year. Apply by by April 30, 2015.

Howard Rockman, MD, professor of medicine, has agreed to serve as director of the Duke Cardiovascular Research Center. The mission of the CVRC is to solidify, enhance and support outstanding cardiovascular research from the basic discovery end of the translational research spectrum.

Marilyn Telen, MD leads small study that finds treatment for painful episodes of blood vessel obstruction in sickle cell anemia is currently limited to controlling pain, but an investigational therapy might be able to interfere with the underlying cause of these events, known as vaso-occlusion crises.

Cynthia Moylan, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (Gastroenterology) has been awarded one of three 2015 ACG Junior Faculty Development Grants from the American College of Gastroenterology.

The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of the U.S.

Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the department, Aimee Zaas, MD, MHS, program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and David Simel, MD, vice chair for Veterans Affairs, have announced the

Dean Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, has announced that L.