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Tech Tip of the Week

Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month!

Shelly Epps, a former DUSON staff member now with the Duke Health Security Office, presented an engaging presentation with lots of great information security tips during the Dean’s Quarterly Update on Thursday, October 8, at noon.

Here are some ways to celebrate:

The DNP Program held its virtual series of fall sessions from October 5 to 7. These sessions are traditionally held on campus but were moved to a virtual format this year.

Katherine C. Pereira, DNP Program assistant dean, and Jennifer Meyer Dare, DNP Program coordinator, Sr., welcomed all the program's students through a Zoom session at 9:30 a.m. on October 5. 

Jennie C. De Gagne, professor, co-published "Exploration of Cybercivility in Nursing Education Using Cross-Country Comparisons" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health with Sang Suk Kim, a former visiting scholar, and Jung Jae Lee from the University of Hong Kong.

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Please join me in congratulating Dr. Anne Derouin, associate clinical professor and assistant dean for the Master's Program, whose promotion to Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing was approved by the Board of Trustees effective September 1, 2020, through June 30, 2025.

Marion E. Broome

Dean and Ruby Wilson Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing         

Kudos to Michael Cary, associate professor, and his entire team for the submission of his NIH R01 proposal entitled: “Development of an electronic clinical prediction tool to guide successful community discharge following inpatient rehabilitation for older adults." This proposal request funding for a five-year period with a start date of July 1, 2021.

The Interprofessional Education Advanced Certificate Program, sponsored by Duke AHEAD and the Duke Health Interprofessional Education and Care (IPEC) Center, is a yearlong professional development program that prepares health professions educators to develop, deploy and evaluate interprofessional educational activities in the context of learning about, from, and with educators from other professions.

Brigit Carter, associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion, is a featured speaker for Fitzhugh Mullan Institute's Health Workforce Equity's Health Workforce Equity Summit "Structural Racism and Health Professions Education" on October 29 from 1 to 5 p.m.  

Mitchell Knisely, assistant professor, is a coauthor of "Brief Behavioral Therapy and Bupropion for Sleep and Fatigue in Young Adults with Crohn’s Disease: An Exploratory Open Trial Study" in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 

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