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…
On Monday, April 29 from 12 until 1 p.m. The Mobile App Gateway is bringing together a group of clinicians and researchers to discuss the ways that technology has assisted them in understanding and treating different types of addiction and addiction-prone behaviors. Join Devon Noonan,…
Congratulations to Matthew LeBlanc, PhD student; and his faculty sponsor Sophia Smith, associate professor, who have received an award for their American Cancer Society, Inc. application entitled “Symptom Burden and Quality of Life in Multiple Myeloma Patients.” The…
On Tuesday, April 16, Kathy Andolsek will present "Educational Grants" at the Spring 2019 Teaching Conversations Series in Pearson 1011 from 12 until 1 p.m.
The 2019 Spring Teaching Conversations Series are sponsored by Duke University School of Nursing Institute for…
Valerie Howard, associate dean for academic affairs, was recently appointed a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine - School of Nursing where she recently taught a two-week curriculum planning and development course.
Additionally, Howard also…
Jennie De Gagne, associate professor, recently had her research highlighted in Australia's independent nursing print and digital content provider, Nursing Review, in an article entitled "Profanity, demeaning patients, product promotion: how nurses are ‘misbehaving’ on Twitter."
Social media is a…
DUKE’S SPORTS MED – “RUNNING CLINIC” APRIL 9, 5:30 until 7 p.m.
Available for free for all Run Walk Club participants (click here to register for the Run Walk Club). Duke’s Physical Therapy Department will be discussing numerous topics that include;…
On May 1, James Spudich, professor at Stanford University School of Medicine; will present "The Myosin Mesa and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Mutations to Mechanisms to Therapies" as part of the Robert J. Lefkowitz Distinguished Lecture from 4 until 5 p.m. in the Trent Semans Center for…
On April 17, Sharron Docherty, associate professor; will present "Defining Quality of Life: Whose Life is it, Anyway" as part of the Science and Society Dinner Dialogue series.
Her presentation will address how as medical advances have increased survival for those with previously fatal…
Need some tech? We have you covered …
Did you ever leave your laptop at home and you need to get some work done?
Or maybe you’re presenting on campus and you don’t have the adapter they told you to bring …
Or you have to give a presentation off-site after-hours and you…
Calling all Beta Epsilon chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International members to consider a leadership role in the upcoming elections. Open positions include president, secretary, undergraduate counselor, two directors, and two leadership succession members.
If interested in more information about any…
Marilyn Oermann, professor; and Lillee Gelinas, DNP student; recently received American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE) Awards for their publications.
Oermann was awarded the Bronze Award in the Best Original Research category for her article "Quality of…
Between April 7 and mid-July, 1994; an estimated one million Rwandans were killed. In recognition of the 25th commemoration of the genocide, DUSON will honor its partner, the University of Rwanda School of Nursing and Midwifery, by displaying a poster and hand-made rug in the Pearson Atrium…
Join the upcoming Science & Society Dinner Dialogue: Understanding in Informed Consent for Research with Dr. Kevin Weinfurt on April 9 from 7 until 8:30 p.m.
There is currently debate about the role of research participants’ understanding in the context of informed consent for research. Do…
"Leaving no one behind" is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute are collecting best practices and lessons learned on what works in reaching the most marginalized and vulnerable young people with health information and services. If you…