Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students, faculty and staff from around Duke have been learning about mindfulness and meditation through a Koru Mindfulness course co-hosted by the Duke University School of Nursing.

Dominique Bulgin, PhD’19, currently serves as a consulting associate and postdoctoral fellow with the Duke National Clinician Scholars Program.

Tolu O. Oyesanya, PhD, RN, assistant professor, has been with the Duke University School of Nursing since 2018 and teaches in the PhD Program.

Greetings from the ODEI!

Applications are now being accepted for Duke Health's Primary Care Preceptor Development Mini-Fellowship Program, administered by the Duke Physician Assistant Program. This mini-fellowship offers clinician educators (licensed PAs, NPs, MDs, and DOs who serve as primary care providers), a unique opportunity to learn from expert faculty at one of the nation's leading academic medical centers.

Ran Xiao, assistant professor, co-published “Electroencephalography measures of relative power and coherence as reaching skill emerges in infants born preterm" for Scientific Reports. Xiao provides equal contribution and shares co-first authorship of the paper.

The following second-semester ABSN students were recently approved by the D-CHIPP Executive Committee to become student affiliates: Diana Hope Bennett, Tomi Jegede, Harmeet Kaur,

Kudos to Hanzhang Xu, assistant professor, and her entire team for the submission of the National Institutes of Health R21 application entitled: “Developing a Mobile App-Based Intervention to Promote Cognitive Health in Older Chinese Americans.” This proposal requests funding for a two-year period with a start date of September 1, 2021.

Kudos to Tolu Oyesanya, assistant professor, and her entire team for the submission of the National Institutes of Health R21 application entitled: “Improving The Transition from Acute Hospital Care to Home for Older Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury and Families." This proposal requests funding for a two-year period with a start date of September 1, 2021.