Congratulations to PhD student Jiepin Cao for being selected as an American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Doctoral fellow for the 2020-21 award year. Fellows are selected based on their scholarly promise, academic achievement, and demonstrated commitment to women and girls.
Kudos to PhD student Shamatree Shakya and her advisors Associate Professors Michael Cary and Susan Silva fo
Who doesn’t love a good meme? (example pictured). We see them, “like” them, share them on social media or via texts and email almost daily. But have you ever tried to create one? As a fun and creative way to celebrate Infection Prevention Week 2020 (October 18-24), the Duke Health Infection Prevention team is sponsoring a meme contest.
Allison Stafford, assistant professor, Gabriela Nagy, assistant clinical professor, and Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda,
Carolina Tennyson, assistant professor, coauthored "Understanding and recognizing cardiac amyloidosis" for the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants with Todd McVeigh of Duke Hospital.
Abstract
Several weeks ago, Chancellor A. Eugene Washington tasked Paula Tanabe, vice dean of Research, with developing research specific goals to contribute to the racial justice initiatives at Duke and complement the work of the Racial Justice Task Force. These goals were established with faculty input on a very short turn around and have been submitted and accepted by the chancellor.
Duke Health's Government Relations produced an article on Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, associate professor, to position her as an expert resource for policymakers in regard to her expertise and active efforts in supporting the Latinx community during the pandemic.
Tech Tip of the Week
Congratulations to Mary Barzee, operation coordinator! She “caught the phish” and reported it in our most recent phishing exercise. Her name was randomly selected by the Duke Health ISO to receive their attractive CISO Security Ambassador challenge coin!
Remember last week when you got an email from Pam Clark inviting you to a team lunch? Many of you were suspicious, and you were right. That was a DHTS phishing exercise.
Here’s how we did as a school:
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.