Cherie Conley, PhD student, is one of only ten individuals across Duke University to receive the prestigious Dean's Award. Conley (advised by Professor Isaac Lipkus) will be honored at a ceremony on March 25 for her excellence in mentoring students.
Duke students from all levels and schools are invited to check out the new Bass Connections projects for 2020-2021 - including a number on the theme of Global Health. Applications open on January 24 and are due on February 14 by 5:00 p.m. All interested students can learn more about new…
In reflection on Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy, a poster board will be set up in the Atrium January 13 -17 to collect your favorite MLK quotations. Be sure to add to the collection, or stop by and appreciate the ways our community shows up to remember this civil rights leader who…
The Duke Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research (CHOIR) presents Dr. Monique Anderson Starks, Duke Health cardiologist, speaking on "Moving the Needle on Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Pipe Dream or Reality?" The seminar will take place on Thursday, January 16 at noon at 200…
Negative provider attitudes are one of the most common reasons that young people don’t seek facility-based health services, including contraception. And yet we’ve invested – and continue to invest -- large sums of money in training health care providers to be “youth friendly.” While…
D-CHIPP is starting off the year with a follow-up documentary to a film featured last fall about the opioid/heroin epidemic. WRAL’s “Finding a Fix” revisits the stories of some of the families across North Carolina who have lost loved ones due to accidental drug overdose and discusses legislation…
Register by January 31 for the DUSON Spring Book Club for Faculty and Staff, presented by the Institute for Educational Excellence and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Copies will be distributed the week of February 10, and the discussion group will take place on Tuesday, March 17, from 4:00…
Karin Reuter-Rice, associate professor, and recent ABSN graduate Elise Christoferson published an article in American Journal of Critical Care entitled "Critical Update on the Third Edition of the Guidelines for Managing Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Children."
Kudos to Isaac Lipkus, professor, and his entire team for the submission of their subcontract application to Virginia Commonwealth University entitled: "Characterizing Toxicant Exposure, Behavior and Abuse Liability of Electronic Waterpipe." This proposal requests funds for a 3 year period with a…
Kudos to Schenita Randolph, assistant professor, for the submission of her NIH R21 application entitled: “Salon Connect 4: A multi-level, salon-based intervention to increase awareness and knowledge of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among black women living in the United States South.” This…
Through funds from Together Duke, the Provost has established a funding program to support groups of faculty whose engaged research targets selected societal challenges in alignment with Duke’s strategic priorities. The two new themes for the 2020 grant competition are Immigration…
The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement hosts the Faculty Advancement and Success Workshop Series, which provides learning opportunities, resources, and networking for all faculty at Duke. Each month, faculty meet with their peers, experts, and key campus leaders to discuss and…
“Point of Care” is a new monthly speaker series, sponsored by Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and Blue Cross NC, that provides a national stage for thought leaders in health care delivery, payment, and reform to share their ideas, discuss new approaches, and comment on emerging health…
Angela Richard-Eaglin and Jacquelyn McMillian-Bohler, assistant professors, co-authored the chapter "Advanced Assessment of the Female Reproductive System," and Adrienne Small, clinical nurse educator, authored the chapter "Advanced Health Assessment of the Abdomen, Rectum, and Anus" in a newly…
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DUSON's Communities of Practice website has been redesigned and relaunched by a team led by Iris Padilla, assistant professor. The site offers information and resources to engage clinicians as preceptors for our nurse practitioner students.
Denise Williams of SON-IT will be leaving for a yearlong deployment. Denise is a Sergeant in the US Army Reserve, and her unit will be mobilized to Fort Bliss (El Paso, TX) for the year. We thank Denise and her unit for their service.
Najla McClain will transition to a new role as senior program coordinator for the ABSN program, having previously served as program director for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and senior program coordinator for the MSN program.
Register now to attend “Developing Efficacious Parent-Based Interventions to Reduce Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health Disparities,” a colloquium given by Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos on Thursday, January 16th at 12:00 p.m. in Classroom 1011. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos is a DUSON alum, Professor and…
Congratulations to the DEFT (Duke Elder Family/Caregiving Training) Program for receiving a $100K unrestricted gift last month from a Duke parent in California. The gift was given in honor of Doreen Matters, program director for the DEFT, for her years of service to the Duke Cancer Institute.…
Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 mHealth Training Institute (mHTI) to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles from July 26 – 31, 2020. The week-long, residential program blends “deep dives” into the latest mHealth technologies and methodologies with team science…
I am pleased to announce that John Brion, PhD, PMH NP-BC, will join DUSON’s faculty on February 1, 2020. He will be a member of the Healthcare in Adult Populations Division and assume important responsibilities in the MSN program’s Psych Mental Health Specialty.
Dr. Brion is a board-…
Dr. Michelle Webb, DNP, RN, CHPCA joined Duke University School of Nursing January 2020 with our MSN Nursing and Health Care Leadership major and a member of the Division of Health Systems and Analytics. She holds degrees from Indiana University (BSN), The George Washington University (MSN) and a…
Dr. Kais Gadhoumi joined Duke University School of Nursing January 2020. Prior to joining Duke, he was an Assistant Researcher and Associate Director in a lab with Dr. Xiao Hu at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Before joining UCSF, he was the co-founder and head of Analytics at…