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The following faculty received funding awards in December 2020.

Michael Burt, MD, senior assistant resident in the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program, has been selected to serve as the Durham VA Medical Center Chief Resident for Quality and Safety (CRQS) for 2021-22.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Jan. 19, 2021.

The Department of Medicine recently held its annual Fellows Research Retreat, a virtual event for fellows with a focus on establishing research careers. 60 fellows and about 15 faculty and staff attended the January event.

The Jan. 12, 2021 session of Duke Medicine LEADS featured Ada Gregory, MA, associate director at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, presenting "Bystander Intervention: Microinterventions to Respond to Bias in Clinical Care."

Samira Musah, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and medicine (Nephrology), is one of 13 Duke scientists, including eight members of the Duke University School of Medicine, who appeared in a new list of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists in the United States. Cell Mentor, a blog and online resource for researchers, composed the list to showcase the contributions Black scientists make to the scientific community.

Physician-pharmacist collaboration may increase adherence to opioid addiction treatment according to a new study published this week in Addiction.

Physician-pharmacist collaboration may increase adherence to opioid addiction treatment

Duke investigators are the new recipients of two funding awards, one from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and one from The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), both addressing roadblocks to early kidney transplantation, including race disparities in kidney transplant.

Dr. Paul Lantos recently headed the development of a multi-society guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.