News for Faculty and Staff
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Applications will be accepted starting July 27 to work on a Duke Bass Connection project team starting this fall. Each of the 13 teams will focus on COVID-related research. The application deadline is July 31.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Student Michael Manasia has been selected as a DNP Margolis Scholar. His policy interests focus on issues around health care costs and affordability, such as financial toxicity and price transparency, particularly with regards to oncology. His future career path is focused on nursing leadership and hospital administration. He is currently a Genitourinary Surgery Office Practice nurse/clinical nurse IV at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Schenita Randolph, assistant professor, was highlighted in The New York Times' article "Keeping Kids Curious About Their Bodies Without Shame" by Jenny Marder. The article discusses how to talk to children about body curiosity and setting boundaries for their behavior.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Tech Tip of the Week
Did you spot the phish last week? You may recall receiving a fake phishing attempt last week as part of the DHTS Phish program. Did it get you?
Congratulations to our DUSON student Brian Douthit, PhD student and MSN '17! He was selected from those who reported the phish to receive a beautiful ISO challenge coin.
Here’s how the School did overall:
Emails Sent: 484
Email Opened: 207 (42.8%)
Clicks: 133 (27.5%)
Reports - PhishAlarm: 45 (9.2%)
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Alice Chua, DNP '19, is one of this year's five recipients of the President's Award for Nurses in Singapore. The award, Singapore's highest accolade for the profession, recognizes nurses who have shown sustained, outstanding performance and contributions to patient care delivery, education, research and administration.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Ryan Shaw, associate professor, co-received an award from Duke MEDx for CovIdentify, a study that aims to see if it can be detected if a person has COVID symptoms or not through the data collected from that person's wearable device and/or smartphone.
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Monday, July 20, 2020
Kathryn E. Kreider, DNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, associate professor and lead faculty for the DUSON endocrinology specialty, has been inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP).
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Monday, July 20, 2020
Kudos to Tara Albrecht, assistant professor, and her entire team for the submission of her Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation application entitled: “Build Stamina: A novel supportive intervention for vulnerable adults with acute leukemia and their caregivers.” This proposal requests funding for a one-year period with a start date of January 1, 2021.
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Monday, July 20, 2020
Kudos to Xiao Hu, Ann Henshaw Gardiner Distinguished Professor of Nursing, and his entire team for the submission of their NIH R01 transfer application entitled: "Integrate Dynamic System Model and Machine Learning for Calibration-Free Noninvasive ICP". This proposal requests funding for a three-year period with a start date of August 1, 2020.
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Sunday, July 19, 2020
Jewel Scott, MSN '06 and PhD '20, Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, associate professor, and Leigh Ann Simmons, consulting professor, coauthored “Equity in Genomics: A Brief Report on Cardiovascular Health Disparities in African American Adults" in The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. The manuscript addresses the potential for exacerbation of cardiovascular inequities if more attention is not paid to equity in genomics research and provides specific recommendations for nursing.