The Global Engagement Program (GEP) is a semester-long service-learning program, providing domestic students with opportunities to interact with international students and scholars at Duke as a way to foster exposure and engagement with the diverse populations at…
I am very pleased to announce that Dr. Xiao Hu and members of his research team Dr. Kais Gadhoumi and Dr. Ran Xiao will join DUSON’s faculty on January 1, 2020. Dr. Hu is a distinguished researcher in the field of biomedical signal processing and machine learning and the applications of these…
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In the coming weeks, faculty and staff will have the opportunity to review their personal and family needs and enroll or make changes in their medical, dental, vision and reimbursement account benefits for 2020.
The enrollment period this year will be from Oct. 21 to Nov. 1. This annual period is…
"Why Wound Care" is a website that provides free resources for a career in wound care. More than 40 presentations on key wound care topics were developed by leading educators within this field as a way to encourage students and clinicians to consider a career as a wound care specialist. The site…
On Thursday, October 10 at 7 p.m., Dr. Yolanda Wilson will give a talk titled “In Praise of Difficult Patients,” which is based in her chapter on caregiving from her current book project, Black Death: Racial Justice, Priority-Setting, and Care at the End of Life. Professor Wilson’s research…
Are you a Duke faculty member interested in getting involved with the Disability & Access Initiative (DAI)? Then attend this meeting on October 15, 12 - 1:30 pm, at the Health Humanities Lab in Trent Hall, Rm 037A. Through readings and discussions, participants with DAI work toward…
Kathy Trotter, associate professor, recently joined Duke Cancer Center for a Facebook Live Panel Discussion in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. She was joined by Dr. Rachel Blitzblau, breast cancer survivors Tammy James and Barbara Pullen-Smith, and Emily Silva with the American Cancer…
The Duke Health Humanities Lab is beginning the third year of its Chronic Health Conditions Storytelling Group, led by three medical students this year. This group meets every Thursday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. starting October 10. The purpose of the event is for those with chronic illnesses or those who…
Marion E. Broome, dean and Ruby Wilson Professor of Nursing, Duke University School of Nursing; vice chancellor for Nursing Affairs, Duke University; and associate vice president for Academic Affairs for Nursing, Duke University Health System, was invited to be the distinguished speaker at the 7th…
ePrint is Duke's student printing service. B&W printing is available at no charge to all Duke School of Nursing students. Simply send your print job to the ePrint queue, go to one of our ePrint printers, swipe your student ID, and voila! Pick up your prints. And starting this semester, color…
Congratulations to PhD student Morine Cebert and her faculty sponsors Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, associate professor; and Eleanor Stevenson, associate professor; and their entire team for the award of her NIH NRSA (F31) application entitled "Reducing Disparities among African American Women Seeking…
Congratulations to Devon Noonan, associate professor, and her entire team for the award on her University of California, Davis NIH R01 subcontract application entitled "Goals for Reaching Optimal Wellness: GROWell." This award is for a five-year period with a start date of October 1, 2019.…
AnnMarie Walton, assistant professor, published an article entitled "A Handwashing Educational Toolkit: The Product of a Dynamic Partnership Among a Student, Faculty Member, and Community Organization" in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. Co-authors include Catherine…
Maryellen Kelly, MSN instructor, presented a plenary presentation entitled "A How to Guide on Initiating Research" and three poster presentations entitled "The Role of the Advanced Practice Provider in Pediatric Urology;" "Utility Estimation for Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction in the General…
Jennie De Gagne, professor, recently delivered a webinar on identifying various channels for communicating scholarly work and exploring innovation scholarship dissemination for the 2019-2020 Faculty fellows in the Invest in Nursing Project.
The Invest in Nursing Faculty Fellowship is a one-year…
Duke University School of Nursing was recently redesignated by the National League for Nursing Center of Excellence in Nursing Education for Enhancing Student Learning and Professional Development until 2024.
Congratulations to Marilyn Oermann, professor, on receiving the 2019 National League for Nursing President's Award, and Valerie Howard, associate dean for Academic Affairs; and Michael Relf, associate dean for Global and Community Health Affairs, on being inducted as Fellows of the NLN Academy of…
The Duke Initiative for Science & Society is hosting Dinner Dialogues with Dr. Alex Rosenberg entitled "The neuroscience of our addiction to stories" on October 15, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. We love stories and don't love science, evolutionary biology and neuroscience explain why, and show that…
The Duke Department of Population Health Sciences presents a Research Seminar entitled "Effects of Discordance Between Perceived and Preferred Roles in Decision Making Among Advanced Cancer Patients" with Semra Ozdemir, PhD, assistant professor, with Duke-NUS, on Wednesday, October 16, from 12 to 1…
Duke University School of Nursing welcomes Shein-Chung Chow, PhD, from the Duke Department of Biostatistics who will work closely with our faculty and staff from the Statistics Core in the Center for Nursing Research. As part of his work, Chow will meet with faculty and staff to assess the short…
Dominique Bulgin, PhD'19, and consulting associate, presented a short talk entitled "Short Talk: Sickle Cell Disease: Self-Management, Health-related Quality of Life and Stigma" at the Black Communities Conference in Durham, NC.
Paula Tanabe, associate dean for Research Development and Data Science, and her team presented a poster entitled "Factors Influencing Care among Persons with Sickle Cell Disease in North Carolina" at the Black Communities Conference in Durham, NC.
Tanabe also presented a webinar entitled "Update…
The Duke University School of Nursing’s teaching assignment management system, TAMS, has been selected as a finalist for the NC Tech Awards Digital Transformation award category. The NC Tech Awards is North Carolina's only statewide technology awards program that recognizes innovation, growth…