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…
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…