Iris Padilla, assistant professor, recently participated in a panel discussion on Migrant Health and Health Education to Serve Diverse Populations.
The panel discussion followed a screening of HBO's Clinica de Migrantes, a documentary on the United States immigration debate. The…
DUSON welcomes Chloe Hayim as the new higher education analyst in the Office of Institutional Research in the School of Nursing effective June 10.
Many already know Hayim due to her work in the Office of Financial Aid as well as being in the inaugural class of the DUSON Emerging…
Plan to attend the upcoming Lunch & Learn Workshop: Starting a Company for Education, Research & Clinical Practice on June 18 from 12 until 1 p.m. in Pearson 1026. Please note this is the second workshop of its series, however, please consider attending even if you didn’t make it to…
Your Duke Office 365 account is not just for your Duke email.
Your Duke Office 365 account provides you with some effective tools to help with your productivity and collaboration. Here’s a quick look at the latest set of tools available with your Duke account.
But first, here’s our Tech Tip…
Tracey Yap, associate professor, recently published an article entitled "Impact of Cognition and Handfeeding Assistance on Nutritional Intake for Nursing Home Residents" in the Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics. Co-authors include Melissa Batchelor-Murphy of The George Washington…
Duke University School of Nursing welcomes its newest Population Care Coordinator Program summer cohorts. The goal of the Population Care Coordinator Program is to improve patient outcomes by helping medical care teams operate more efficiently and effectively. Duke-trained Population Care…
Margarita De La Fuente, DNP '18, and Ashley Schoenfisch, consulting associate; recently published an article entitled "Impact of Behavior Management Training on Nurses' Confidence in Managing Patient Aggression" in The Journal of Nursing Administration. Co-authors include Barbara Wadsworth,…
Congratulations to Marta Mulawa, faculty, who received an award for her NIH K01 application entitled “Developing an mHealth Intervention that Leverages Social Networks to Improve ART Adherence among HIV-Infected Adolescents in South Africa.” This proposal was awarded $852,670 for the…
Donna Biederman, associate professor, was recently a panelist for a facilitated discussion “Just DO It – Starting Small in Medical Respite” at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council conference and policy symposium. The discussion focused on how to start a homeless medical…
The World Health Assembly recently passed another resolution on WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) in health care facilities – recognizing the critical role of WASH in effective patient care and helps make this a global priority.
Zhao Ni, PhD '19; Vanessa Curlee, PhD student; and Bada Kang, PhD student; recently earned their Global Health Doctoral Certificate from the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) at the DGHI scholars luncheon.
The Global Health Doctoral Certificate provides an opportunity for doctoral students…
Kirsten Corazzini, associate professor; Roy Thompson, PhD student; and Jing Wang, PhD student; recently published an article entitled "Advancing Long-Term Care Science Through Using Common Data Elements: Candidate Measures for Care Outcomes of Personhood, Well-Being, and Quality of Life" in…
The World Health Assembly recently convened and passed a resolution on Community Health Workers introduced by the Governments of Ethiopia and Ecuador, entitled "Community health workers delivering primary health care: opportunities and challenges." The document, which builds on both…
During the recent World Health Assembly in Geneva, a report on Adolescents: the missing population in Universal Health Coverage was launched. The paper sets out the evidence based on adolescent health and makes the case that to achieve UHC, policymakers need to take urgent action on the leading…
Ragan Johnson, assistant professor, recently published an article entitled "Sexual Health and the Older Adult" in Geriatric Nursing. Co-authors include Trimika Bowdre and Ricketta Clark, both of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing.
Background
Sexual health…
Kudos to Rachel Richesson, associate professor, and her entire team for the submission of their NIH U18 application entitled "Validation of a Metadata Framework for Clinical Pathway Knowledge Artifacts." This proposal requests funding for a two-year period with a start date of April 1, 2020.…
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…