Congratulations to Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, associate professor, and her research team who received an award from the Duke Health Greatest Need philanthropic fund for her proposal entitled: “SER Hispano Community Health Worker (CHW) COVID-19 Prevention Intervention."

The aims of the project are to adapt and test an existing community health worker (CHW) COVID-19 prevention and symptom management intervention developed by NCDHHS to mitigate the unique acculturation stressors and improve sources of resilience that are social drivers of health (SDOH) in Latinx immigrant communities.

Kudos to Stephanie Ibemere, postdoc, and her entire team for the submission of her Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS) proposal entitled: “Comparison of Nurse Practitioner Satisfaction with In-Person and/or Telehealth (telephone/video) Visits for Chronic Disease Management." This proposal requests funding for a one-year period with a start date of February 1, 2021.

On September 28, the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) of Duke University held their 16th Annual Fall Scientific Retreat. Several DUSON faculty and students presented at this annual event.

Brandon Knettel, assistant professor, was invited to deliver an oral presentation from selected conference abstract submissions which he titled "The Roles and Effectiveness of Community Health Workers in Supporting HIV Care Engagement and Well-Being among Adults Living with HIV in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania."

The Duke Mobile App Gateway for Digital Health, of which Ryan Shaw, associate professor, is the faculty lead, discussed telehealth transformation that is having a big impact on nursing during Duke Digital Health Week, which ran from September 21 to September 24. 

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Kudos to Sophia Smith, associate professor, and Eric Elbogen (SOM) for the submission of their National Cancer Institute (NCI), Multi-PI application entitled “Integrating Technological Approaches for Pain Management in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer." This proposal requests funding for a five-year period with a start date of July 1, 2021.

The Nurse Anesthesia-DNP Program faculty and staff would like to celebrate of an outstanding accomplishment for our graduating Class of 2020. All 24 students passed their National Certification Exam (NCE) on their first attempt!

The Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19 (LATIN-19), which consists of DUSON-connected members, was featured recently in the news story: "The heroes of the pandemic: 'When the world is burning, I must put out the fire'/Héroes de la pandemia: 'Si el mundo está ardiendo, yo siento que

Assistant Professors Schenita Randolph and Ragan Johnson co-wrote "Leveraging social networks of Black women in beauty salons to improve uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis" in Health Education Journal. Coauthors include Danielle Meyers of Duke Cancer Institute, Davon Washington of Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute, and Lamercie Saint-Hillaire, of Duke Family Medicine and Community Health.

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Marilyn Oermann, Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing, was the keynote speaker at Frontier Nursing University Research Symposium. Her presentation was titled "Building Your Scholarship through Publications."

DUSON faculty and students recently completed a successful collaboration with faculty and students from Fudan University School of Nursing in Shanghai, China. In this collaboration students from both countries completed two virtual simulations (v-sims) as a group. Through these v-sims, they explored differences in patient care across countries.