The Duke Center for Community & Population Health Improvement is launching a new web platform to catalog community and population health activities at Duke that impact the health of the Durham community and beyond.
The Population Health Improvement Initiative (PHII) is designed to showcase the…
PhD Graduate Zhao Ni was recently featured in a Duke Global Health Institute article entitled "Doctoral Student Zhao Ni Using mHealth to Address Heart Disease in China." Ni is coming up with creative ways to use mHealth to improve the medication adherence for patients in China. Ni, who hails from…
DUSON's Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives (OGACHI) and Office of Diversity and Inclusion recently partnered to host the School's first "Taste Your Way Around the World" luncheon, a celebration of May 21's World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.…
On a bright spring day, nurse practitioner Dakar Howell and physical therapist Lauren Waits met with a group of eight eager tour guides in a back room of Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art. They weren’t preparing for just any museum tour, however. The volunteers are to be guides in the…
Anne Schmelzer, MSN student, was recently appointed to serve on the program committee for the cardiac neurodevelopmental outcomes track for the 8th Quadrennial World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, to be held in Washington, DC in September 2021. This is the first…
Hanzhang Xu, medical instructor, recently delivered two presentations entitled "Six Minutes Saved From Door-To-Needle Time For Stroke Thrombolysis Ensuing From A Change Of Informed Consent Policy In Singapore" and "Emergency Medical Services Use And Its Association With Acute Ischemic Stroke…
Tolu Oyesanya, assistant professor, recently published an article entitled "Technology and TBI: Perspectives of persons with TBI and their family caregivers on technology solutions to address health, wellness, and safety concerns" in the Assistive Technology. Co-authors include Nicole Thompson…
As we celebrate graduates this time of year, we'd like to highlight members of our community and their families who are celebrating graduations of their very own!
To celebrate these milestones, we'd love to feature your stories! Please send photos with a story to accompany them to…
Join us for The Darryl Smith and Gail Aiken Interdisciplinary Colloquia featuring the following presentations Pain & Fear: A Mechanistic Link to Vasoconstriction and Sickle Cell Disease: Is It Really a Neurological Disorder that Involves Red Cells? on Thursday, June 6 from 4 until 5 p…
Donna Biederman, associate professor, recently graduated from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program. The program partners with two researchers with a community member to work on social determinants health policy.
Biederman and her colleagues, Mina…
Sending sensitive information
Have you ever needed to send sensitive data to someone outside of Duke? If you are working with sensitive data (personally identifiable data, medical records, student information, etc.) and you need to share it, here’s how to protect it and get…
Tracey Yap, associate professor, recently published a journal article entitled "Pressure Injury Prevention Outcomes and Challenges to Use of Resident Monitoring Technology in a Nursing Home" in the Journal of Wound Ostomy & Continence Nursing (JWOCN). Her research from the journal article…
Kathy Trotter, associate professor, recently presented a poster entitled "Anxiety Scores of Women with an Increased Risk of Breast Cancer Participating in Facilitated Group Visits" at the American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas.
The one-year study concluded that…
Tracey Yap, associate professor; and Kao Ly, DNP '17; recently published an article entitled "Pressure Injury Prevention Outcomes and Challenges to Use of Resident Monitoring Technology in a Nursing Home" in the Journal of Wound Ostomy & Continence Nursing (JWOCN). Susan Kennerly of East…
Yufen Lin, PhD student, recently received a scholarship from the Oncology Nursing Foundation.
She was awarded a 2019 Oncology Nursing Foundation Research Doctoral Scholarship in the amount of $7,500 for the 2019-2020 year.
The Research Doctoral Scholarship will provide Lin with the…
Eun-Ok Im, associate dean for research development and regulatory affairs; Sangmi Kim, postdoctoral associate; and Wonshik Chee, associate professor; recently published an article entitled "Challenges in a Technology-Based Cancer Pain Mangement Program Among Asian American Breast Cancer Survivors"…
Duke University and Duke University Health System have updated and consolidated their policies on discrimination and harassment to ensure consistency with other Duke policies and procedures and ensure compliance with changes in federal requirements and guidance. The policy on consensual…
Paula Tanabe, PhD, MSN, MPH, RN, FAEN, FAAN, associate dean for research development and data science, has been named Laurel Chadwick Professor of Nursing by the Duke University Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2019. Designation as a distinguished professor is the highest honor that Duke…
Schenita Randolph, assistant professor, was recently featured in an article entitled "Get Help Creating A Mobile App" published by Working@Duke.
Randolph would like to say a special thank you to Ragan Johnson, assistant professor; Ryan Shaw, associate professor; Devon Noonan,…
The Duke Center for Research to Advance HealthCare Equity (REACH Equity) recently selected Tolu Oyesanya, PhD, RN, assistant professor; to join the second cohort of Career Development Awardees – REACH Equity Scholars.
Oyesanya will pursue the project “Reducing Disparities in the Transition from…
Rachel Richesson, associate professor, recently delivered the keynote presentation entitled "Moving Clinical Research into the Real World: The Promise and Perils of Big Data and Informatics" at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's 2019 Biomedical Informatics Colloquium.
The…
Lauren Arrington, DNP student, was recently featured in an on-air Fox 45 news interview where she discussed the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's new report on maternal mortality. She was asked to participate in this interview due to the work she's she's doing on her DNP project…
Iris Padilla, assistant professor; and Leonor Corsino, associate professor of medicine; recently submitted a grant proposal entitled "A Translation of Care Model from Hospital to Community for Hispanic/Latino Adult Patients with Diabetes" to The New York Regional Center for Diabetes…
Bobby Bradford, ABSN '17; and Ian Ryan, ABSN '17; are nurses in the United States Navy who are stationed together after graduating from Duke University School of Nursing.
Both Ryan and Bradford are getting ready to board the USNS Comfort, a naval hospital ship, to South America where they…
UPCOMING ZUMBA WITH KENDRA ROLLE:
Register here for upcoming Zumba classes with Kendra Rolle on Tuesday, May 21 from 4:30 until 5:30 p.m.; Wednesday, May 29 from 4:30 until 5:30 p.m. These classes are available for DUSON faculty and staff only.
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