MSN'19 Alumni Alketa Stephens was recently featured in a CBS17 news story as a finalist from our region for the Remarkable Woman Award. The award is given to a woman making a difference in her community. A total of 136 entries were narrowed down to four and Alketa is the first of the four finalists…
Registration is open for the 2020 Interprofessional Education Week held Tuesday, March 3 to Friday, March 6 in the Interprofessional Education Building. The event is open to all faculty and staff. The schedule includes:
Tuesday, March 3 | 9-10:30 a.m. | Room 3280A
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The MSN On-Campus Intensives Logistics Team would like to thank the DUSON Community for helping make the Spring OCI a success. Over 300 students from nine MSN majors and three MSN specialties attended curriculum sessions throughout the week. On Wednesday, 250 students participated in MSN curriculum…
Rachel Richesson, associate professor, published article entitled "Design and analytic considerations for using patient-reported health data in pragmatic clinical trials: report from an NIH Collaboratory roundtable" in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Co-authors include…
The School of Nursing Information Technology team will be collecting donations to send care packages to Denise Williams, computer operations manager, who is on deployment at Fort Bliss, Texas. The team will be mailing monthly care packages beginning in March to her and her unit which includes 18…
Duke Center for Research to Advance Health Equity and Duke Center for Community and Population Health Improvement host Health Disparities Research Works in Progress Seminar on "A Clinic-based, Digital Health Intervention to Retain Adolescents in HIV Care" with Assistant Professor Tiarney Ritchwood…
Every year, Duke University School of Nursing proudly recognizes staff for their hard work and dedication that helps make DUSON the destination for outstanding talent. The annual staff awards program, which will be held Friday, May 8, consists of five awards that recognize and celebrate the…
MSN and HIV specialty alumni Vincent Guilamo-Ramos was recently appointed to serve on the United States Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS (PACHA). Members of the council provide guidance and recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in order to promote…
Duke University School of Nursing welcomes Alexandria "Alex" Secrest and Stacy Zhao as staff assistants to the Healthcare in Adult Populations Division. Both Alex and Stacy have a history of software proficiency, excellent written, verbal, and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, customer…
Cisco Jabber is a unified communications application built for secure instant messaging, group chat, voice and video calls. It is available through Duke free of charge and can be installed on Windows, Mac OS X and mobile devices. Here’s what you need to know:
The Basics – how can Jabber…
Duke Cancer Institute and UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC will hold its third annual North Carolina Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Symposium, in collaboration with Wake Forest Baptist Health and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center on Friday, April 24, 2020, at the NC Biotechnology…
Kathryn Evans Kreider, associate professor, published an article entitled "Blood Pressure Control and the Association with Diabetes Mellitus Incidence: Results from the SPRINT randomized trial" in Hypertension. Co-authors include Christianne L. Roumie, Adriana M. Hung, Gregory B. Russell, Jan…
Duke University will host a Research Town Hall: Global Research at Duke with the theme "Good practices for Reaching Success and Key Regulatory Considerations" on March 17 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Penn Pavilion. Duke researchers of the Duke Global Health Institute and Pratt School of…
The Office for Faculty Development will host Kerfuffles, Conflicts and Misunderstandings: Strategies for Engagement on Tuesday, June 2 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at The Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center. The program will be presented by Ann Brown, MD, MHS, Vice Dean for Faculty, and Cathie Siders,…
The Duke Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research (CHOIR) will host a seminar entitled "The SER Hispano Study: Salud, Estres y Resiliencia/Health, Stress, and Resilience among young Latinx Immigrants Preliminary Findings & Future Directions" with Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, associate…
Mitchell Knisely, assistant professor, recently presented on "Patient-reported Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease: Report from the SCDIC" at the National Institutes of Health for the Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium Steering Committee meeting.
Sandra Yamane, DNP'19, and Jennie De Gagne, professor; published an article entitled "Assessment of a Patient-Centered Initiative to Improve Hypertension Management for Adults with Comorbid Type 2 Diabetes at a Free Clinic in the Rural South" in Nursing Forum. Co-authors include Alysse Riggs, Davie…
Rachel Richesson, associate professor; PhD student Brian Douthit; and Daniel Hatch, biostatistician III; published an article entitled "Measuring implementation feasibility of clinical decision support alerts for clinical practice recommendation" in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics…
The Duke Roybal Center aims to catalyze researchers across disciplines to develop, test and implement innovative behavioral interventions grounded in behavioral or social science principles to promote independent living of older adults. The theme of the Duke Roybal Center is to accelerate…
The Duke Initiative for Science & Society is hosting an upcoming SciComm Lunch-And-Learn event that might be of interest to students, postdocs, and faculty. Through our SciComm Lunch-And-Learn series, we explore interesting, novel aspects of science communication in an informal setting.…
The Duke Initiative for Science & Society is hosting an upcoming Dinner Dialogue that might be of interest to students, postdocs, and faculty. Through our Dinner Dialogue series, we hope to spark meaningful and ongoing conversation about the broader ethical implications of scientific and…
In April 2018, Duke University announced a new smoke-free policy that would prohibit the use of combustible tobacco on campus beginning July 1, 2020 as part of the Healthy Duke initiative. Since that time, our medical experts have reviewed the growing body of evidence on the health risks associated…
Active Minds: Nurses for Mental Health Awareness host "Communication Through Depression & Anxiety" with guest lecturer Sean Convoy, assistant professor, on February 19 at 5:30 p.m. in Pearson 1011. Interdisciplinary attendance is encouraged.
For those unable to attend in person, view the link…