TechExpo is an annual event held at the Washington Duke Inn where technologists across Duke get together to see the cool tech being developed across campus. For this year’s TechExpo held on April 12, Denise Williams, user services specialists; Carla Nichols, assistant director of…
I am pleased to inform you that the following appointments and changes of status were approved for the School of Nursing during the April 5, 2019 Board of Trustees meeting.
Appointments:
Allen A. Cadavero, Assistant Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing, effective January 1, 2019…
Kudos to Tolu Oyesanya, assistant professor, and her entire team for their submission to the Center for Large Data Research and Data Sharing in Rehabilitation, University of Texas Medical Branch for a proposal entitled “Trends and Predictors of Poor Discharge Outcomes following Inpatient…
Kudos to Karin Reuter-Rice, associate professor, and her entire team for the submission of her U54 sub-contract application with Wake Forest (SoM) entitled “Biologic Markers of Persistent Concussive Symptoms in Early and Middle Adolescents." This proposal requests funding for a five-…
Duke University School of Nursing is excited to welcome John Johnson to the Marketing and Communications team!
Johnson is our new web developer, a role he knows quite well. He was previously a contractor, working with Marketing and Communications last summer, helping to launch our…
Rachel Richesson, associate professor, recently had a book she co-edited entitled "Clinical Research Informatics" featured in a Duke Today article entitled "Spring Books: Adventures in Artificial Intelligence, Peruvian Guerrillas, Snow Leopards and More."
This spring, Duke authors have…
"Where's the closest AED?" an interprofessional initiative to improve the "drop to shock" interval on campus will take place in Pearson 1026 on April 17 from 5:30 until 7 p.m.
Please RSVP here.
Ragan Johnson, assistant professor; and Angela Richard-Eaglin, assistant professor; recently presented a poster entitled "Academic Based Residency Programs: Impact on Trainees and Lessons Learned" at the 2019 National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) annual conference in…
Universal Health Coverage holds the transformative promise to provide all people, everywhere with access to the quality health services they need, without financial hardship. But this vision of leaving no one behind will not be fulfilled without a strong focus on the health and rights of girls and…
ZUMBA, STRENGTH AND YOGA CLASSES
Zumba with Kendra Rolle is available for only a short amount of time! Register here for Zumba and join us Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. in Pearson 1103! Strength classes with Christian Kennicott and yoga with Lindsey Crawford are…
Eleanor Stevenson, associate professor, recently presented "Female-Facing Healthcare Delivery: Where Are The Men?" to RTI International.
RTI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition.
We’ve seen an increase in instances of a new email scam. The scammers are impersonating high-level executives at Duke –including our own dean! It’s a new scam designed to obtain gift cards.
So, do these things really work? You bet – and cyber criminals are getting more creative…
Duke has signed a contract with LabArchives to provide electronic research notebooks to everyone at Duke at no cost. Duke researchers can improve their data management practices through the use of an electronic research notebook.
What is LabArchives?
LabArchives is…
Nancy Crego, assistant professor, recently had her research featured in an article entitled "In sickle cell disease, opioid prescribing starts early, study finds" published in MDedge | Psychiatry.
A new study of children with sickle cell disease found prevalent opioid use,…
Nancy Crego, assistant professor, recently presented her poster entitled "Prescription Claims Among Medicaid Eligible Children and Young Adults with Sickle Cell Disease in North Carolina" at the American Pain Society's Scientific Meeting in Milwaukee, WI.
The meeting offered a balance of…
Katherynn Swayzer, ABSN '18, was recently featured in an article entitled "Working Together Solves Problems to Root" published in Nursing Update.
On her first day of orientation in the Duke Regional Hospital Intensive Care Unit, Katherynn Swayzer, RN, CNI, knew she had joined a team…
World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) have released two companion reports which provide the first global SDG baseline for WASH in health care facilities and outlines a set of eight practical steps that countries can take at the national…
Congratulations to Eun-Ok Im, PI and associate dean for research development and regulatory affairs; and Wonshik Chee, entrepreneurial lead and associate professor; who have received an award for their NCI-SPRINT Program proposal entitled "TCIAA." This award is for a six…
Kudos to Robyn Wojeck, PhD student; and her faculty sponsors Chip Bailey, associate professor; and Tamara Somers, associate professor at Duke University School of Medicine; and their entire team for the submission of her NIH NRSA (F31) application entitled “Symptom Clusters…
Kudos to Morine Cebert, PhD student; and her faculty sponsors Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, associate professor; and Eleanor Stevenson, associate professor; and their entire team for the submission of her NIH NRSA (F31) application entitled “Understanding Decisions to Initiate and…
Twenty years ago, when Wanda Boone, DTh, executive director of Durham Together for Resilient Youth (Durham TRY) was working for a company that conducted drug screening tests for employers, she was concerned by the number of employees who were failing their tests. Boone was—and still is—the only…
Congratulations to Tolu Oyesanya, assistant professor, and her entire team who received an award for her REACH Equity Investigator Development Program application entitled “Reducing Disparities in the Transition from Hospital to Home for Patients with TBI & Families.”…
Jill Brennan Cook, assistant professor; and Loretta Matters, director of Duke NICHE; partnered to develop and offer a gerontological review course to prepare Duke University Health System (DUHS) nurses to take the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) gerontological nurse certification exam.…
Kudos to Paula Tanabe, associate dean for research development and data science; and Nirmish Shah of Duke University School of Medicine; and their entire team for the submission of their NIH UG3 Administrative Supplement application entitled “An Evaluation of Predictors of…