Faculty and students presented at the International Society of Nurses in Genetics (ISONG) 2020 World Congress. This was a virtual meeting held from November 13 to 15.
Here are the students and faculty that were involved:
DNP student Benoy Pullukalayil wrote the op-ed "COVID-19 implication on flu vaccination rates" for the "Culver City Observer." Check out this recent news item to see the other op-eds recently published by fellow DNP students.
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DEAR EDITOR,
Jennie C. De Gagne, professor, was recently invited to give a webinar lecture entitled “Scholarship of teaching and learning: Methods for message dissemination” for the 2020-2021 Faculty fellows in the Invest in Nursing Project.
Duke Health features DUSON in its "School of Nursing Outlines Steps for Promoting Racial Equity" story by Morag MacLachlan for the Inside Duke Health website.
A group of 40 students and 16 faculty in the Schools of Nursing and Medicine at Duke are participating in Moral Moments in Medicine: Pandemics, Race, Social Justice, a new course hosted by the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine in collaboration with The Purpose Project at Duke
The 8th Annual Advanced Practice Provider Veterans' Health Symposium was delivered on November 13 with nearly 1,000 registrants in partnership with the Durham VA Advanced Practice Nursing Committee. This year's conference theme was Innovation and Leadership in Veteran Health Care.
Six ABSN students from the 2020 fall cohort have been approved as D-CHIPP affiliates.
Najla McClain, ABSN program coordinator and D-CHIPP staff affiliate, recently joined the Partnership for Healthy Durham Racial Equity Task Force. The goal of the task force is to build racial equity principles into the broader work of the Partnership to ensure all who live in Durham County have equal opportunities to be healthy.
Rosa Persaud has joined the Dean’s Office team as of Monday, November 16, as administrative assistant to Dean Marion E. Broome. Persaud has been employed at Duke University since her family relocated to the area in 2016. She worked in the Duke University Hospital Kidney Transplant Department as a transplant financial coordinator and most recently as administrative assistant in the Department of Neurology of the School of Medicine.
