The 9th annual conference will be September 24 and 25.

The Duke University School of Nursing and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Sickle Cell Disease Program will present the 9th Annual Sickle Cell Disease Conference on September 24 and 25. This year’s theme will be “Moving On – A Post COVID Look at Sickle Cell Disease.”

Health care providers and those living with sickle cell disease (SCD), including individuals and families, are invited to attend the two-day virtual conference. 

The Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program at the Duke University School of Nursing is among the top rankings in the latest U.S. News & World Report.

Dean Vincent Guilamo-Ramos and Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, associate professor, participated in the community COVID vaccination fair on September 11 at Wheels Fun Park Skating Rink.

Duke University School of Nursing’s new Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) serves to engage in the health care of the Latino community by addressing those inequities and by promoting the overall wellbeing of Latino youth and their families.   

Dean Vincent Guilamo-Ramos was featured in the September 2021 issue of "Ob. Gyn. News" in the story "STI Care: Achieving a 'new sexual health paradigm' means expanding care" by Tara Haelle.

Dean Vincent Guilamo-Ramos was featured in the September issue of the American Academy of Nursing's FAAN Mail newsletter for the Viewpoint entitled “Parent-Based Sexual Health Promotion and Sexually Transmitted Infections Prevention for Youth." 

DUSON will celebrate 2021 National Postdoctoral Appreciation week from September 20 to 24. Each postdoctoral scholar will give a 10-15 minute presentation on their research interests Friday, September 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., on Zoom.

The Center for Nursing Discovery (CND) is joining the global celebration of Healthcare Simulation Week through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.

Yesol Yang, PhD'21, Tolu Oyesanya, associate professor, Hyeyoung K. Park, PhD'19, and Cristina Hendrix, chair of the Clinical Health Systems & Analytics Division, contributed to "The Association of Self-esteem With Caregiving Demands, Coping, Burden, and Health Among Caregivers of Breast Cancer Patients: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach" in "Cancer Nursing."

Donna J. Biederman, associate professor, Christian Douglas, consulting associate, Heather A. O' Donohue, ABSN'20, and Monica Daeges, ABSN alumna, contributed to an article in "Public Health Nursing."