Kathryn Kreider, associate professor, and recent DNP graduate Vanessa Atyabi published an article entitled "Screening for Diabetes and Self-Care in Patients With Severe Mental Illness" in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners.
Multifactorial influences put patients with severe mental…
The Institute for Educational Excellence invites you to join them for the next Teaching Conversations Series on "Nursing and Engineering Collaborative" with Ann Saterbak, PhD, Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. The event will take place on Thursday, January 9 at…
Kudos to Dori Steinberg, associate professor, and her entire team for the submission of her NHLBI Administrative Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research application entitled: “Optimizing Inclusion of Blacks Within a Dietary Change Intervention to Reduce Hypertension.” This…
Kudos to Susan Silva, associate professor, for the submission of her Research Collaboration Agreement proposal to Dr. Nora Feeney at Case Western Reserve University entitled: "Optimizing Treatment for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder." This proposal requests funds for a 1 year period with a start…
Kudos to Julia Walker, professor, and her entire team for the submission of their R01 application entitled: "Optimizing Beta-Adrenoceptor Signaling Bias in Asthma." This proposal requests funds for a 5 year period with a start date of July 1, 2020.
Agonists of the beta-2-adrenoceptor (β2AR),…
Kudos to Donna Biederman, associate professor, for the submission of her Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) subcontract application to the Project Access of Durham County entitled: “Durham Homeless Care Transitions.” This proposal requests funding for a 5-year period…
Kudos to Ryan Shaw, associate professor, and his team for the submission of his subcontract proposal to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on the ongoing Shaw-Hauser TRINA project entitled: ”Customizing Semi-Autonomous Nursing Robots using Human Expertise." This proposal…
Kudos to Sharron Docherty, associate professor, Gary Maslow from the School of Medicine, and their entire team for the submission of their NIH/NCI U01 multi-PI application entitled: “Peer i-Coaching for Activated Self-Management Optimization in Young Adult Cancer Survivors and their Parents.” This…
Tara Albrecht, assistant professor, successfully completed the Certification Exam for Advanced Practice Hospice and Palliative Nursing (ACHPN).
Sophia Smith, associate professor, and Matthew LeBlanc, PhD student, published an article entitled "How are patient-reported outcomes and symptoms being measured in adults with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma? A systematic review" in Quality of Life Research.
Abstract…
Angela Richard-Eaglin, assistant professor, was awarded a Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for her "outstanding contribution to education in cancer prevention" for her lecture entitled "Cancer Prevention and Care Beyond the Evidence: Educational…
PhD student Anna "Anya" Diane presented two posters at the most recent American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium in Washington, D.C. in November.
The 2 posters were:
Patient Perceptions of Data Visualizations in Diabetes Self-Management
Collaborators: Janee Stevenson,…
Lisa Mansfield and Morine Cebert, PhD candidates, have been named members of the 2020-2022 cohort of the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP). Mansfield will begin her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, on July 1, 2020. She will investigate developing…
Mary Affronti, associate professor, received a Palliative Care Advocacy Award from the Duke Center for Palliative Care. The award honors members of the Duke Health community who are not part of Duke’s palliative care program who demonstrate an exceptional commitment to integrating the key elements…
Two nursing students and three physicians have joined Duke’s second cohort for the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP). The two nurse scholars among these interdisciplinary medical researchers coming to Duke are Rachele Lipsky, MSN, PMHNP-BC (University of Pennsylvania…
Paula Tanabe was standing in a nondescript convention center ballroom in Texas on an otherwise unremarkable Sunday morning in late September 2019. Looking back now, she describes that moment as “the highlight of my career.” What happened in that room, at the General Assembly of the Emergency Nurses…
Duke's Clinical & Translational Science Institute invites researchers to submit a letter of intent by January 6 for its Special Populations Pilot Program.
The purpose of the Special Populations Pilot program is to facilitate novel clinical and translational research that promotes health equity…
A group of physicians at Duke is exploring the moral dimension of burnout. They are in the process of developing a Moral Injury Scale for Clinicians and would like your help to validate their survey. The total survey will take 10-15 minutes to complete and all data will be collected anonymously.…
PhD student Jacqueline Vaughn and her faculty mentors Dr. Nirmish Shah (sponsor) and Associate Professor Sharron Docherty (co-sponsor) have submitted an NIH NRSA F32 postdoctoral fellowship application for study and training in “Precision Health Symptom Monitoring for Children with Life-Threatening…
Kudos to PhD student La’Kita Knight (and her sponsor Paula Tanabe, associate dean for research development and data science) for the submission of her NIH NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (F31) application entitled “Transcranial Doppler…
Four ABSN students, Heather O’Donohue, Rachel Castillo, Yunah Kang and Julia Grubbs, assisted at an event presented by the Duke Office of Durham & Community Affairs. The event, “Housing in Durham: A Community Conversation,” was held recently at the Community Family Life & Recreation Center…
Susan Silva, associate professor, received a 2019 Duke Stars Honor from Duke University for her research, mentorship, and teaching in the Schools of Nursing and Medicine and at Duke Clinical Research Institute. Silva notes, “It is exciting to take what I have learned from my own research endeavors…
WATCH GRADUATION LIVE HERE!
Congratulations to all of the Duke University School of Nursing students who will participate in graduation exercises on Saturday, December 14 at 11 a.m.
The graduation will be held at the Duke University Chapel, located at 401 Chapel Drive in Durham, N.C. There will…
Kudos to Debra Brandon, associate professor, and her entire team for submitting their Multi-PI Subcontract proposal on a Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin R01 entitled "Implementation of an Evidence-based Parentally Administered Intervention for Preterm Infants." This proposal requests funds for a 5…