As part of Duke Health's commitment to getting the vaccine to those most impacted by COVID-19, they partnered with the community to pilot two “pop-up” vaccine clinics.

Julee Waldrop, DNP'10, will serve as the assistant dean of the DNP Program beginning on June 1, 2021!

Waldrop earned a BA in Education with a specialization in physical education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her BSN from Texas Woman’s University and MS from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Marilyn H. Oermann, Thelma M. Ingles professor of nursing, publishes "Research in nursing education and the institutional review board/ethics committee" in Journal of Professional Nursing. 

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Tom Blodgett, assistant professor, co-wrote "Perceptions of a Nurse-Driven Urinary Catheter Removal Protocol in a Hospital Setting" in the March/April issue of Clinical Nurse Specialist.

Unique Whitehurst, MSN student, is excited to share that she has been selected as a fellow for the inaugural GradEngage Fellowship, hosted by the Kenan Institute for Ethics. This fellowship supports graduate students as they deepen their relationship and/or research with a Durham-based community partner.

Michelle Webb, assistant professor, was a featured speaker for The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s webinar "Caring for People with Serious Illness In the Home: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic" on February 16 from noon to 1:30 p.m. EST.

Jamie Kyei-Frimpong, DNP student, published "Exercise as medicine: Providing practitioner gu

The School of Medicine's Department of Population Health Sciences' virtual Summer Institute is now offering 10 workshops, taught by expert Duke Faculty, that will support your research goals. You’ll strengthen your foundational knowledge in population health sciences and learn new research methods to help see questions from new perspectives. This year we’re offering two topical introductory courses in Population Health Sciences and Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) that touch on research methods. The remaining eight offer a variety of research methods in a more specific context.

Honey Jones, MSN'11, consulting associate, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners on June 25, 2020, and as a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine on February 5.