Jane Blood-Siegfried and Irene Felsman recently attended the annual conference of the Triangle Global Health Consortium held at NC State University.
The Triangle Global Health Consortium is a non-profit member organization dedicated to advancing North Carolina as a center of global…
DUSON Student Council and Women’s Health Organization (WHO) are hosting a Spa Night for October’s Wellness Wednesday. Come enjoy facials, painting nails, massage trains, other DIY spa treatments and cheesy movies. Bring your favorite nail polish color or aroma therapy oil, and your…
Kudos to Hyeoneui Kim for the submission of her NIH R01 Subcontract application to the University of California at San Diego for Kim’s continued work on her project entitled "iCONCUR: Informed CONsent for Clinical data and biosample Use for Research." This proposal requests funding for an 11-month…
Eun-Ok Im published an article entitled "Effect of a Health Literacy-Considered Diabetes Self-Management Program for Older Adults in South Korea" in the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Co-author, Soo Jin Lee visited Duke last year as a visiting scholar. …
The Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives invites you to join them for a panel discussion on "Nursing Leadership: Perspectives of Nurse Leaders in Three Countries" on Tuesday, Oct. 3, from 12 to 1 p.m. in Pearson 1011. Panel guests include: Drs. Marion E. Broome; Wipada Kunaviktikul,…
Margie Molloy recently presented at the 2017 National League for Nursing Education Summit in San Diego, California. Her presentation was entitled "A New Method to Establish and Sustain CPR Skill Competency."
Duke Health will be hosting our 2017 Thank-a-thon on FRIDAY, Oct. 13. We will be making hundreds of phone calls to our donors to extend our thanks for their support this past year. We are looking for a few great friends (students, faculty, staff and alumni) to staff the phone…
The Durham VA and the Duke University School of Nursing leadership jointly responded to a call for proposals from the Office of Academic Affiliations to develop a program enhancing the education and training of Adult Geriatric Nurse Practitioners. Planning for the residency program began in 2015.…
Kathryn Trotter recently joined the Editorial Advisory Board of Women's Healthcare: A Clinical Journal for NPs, the official journal of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH). As NPWH's official journal, Women's Healthcare provides nurse…
Kudos to Schenita Randolph and her entire team for the submission of their NIH R21 application entitled: “A Conceptual Framework for Sociocultural Contextual Influences on Young Black Males’ Sexual Behavior to inform the development of a culturally appropriate father-son intervention designed to…
Congratulations to Helen Williams, Leah Terterian and Lindsay Johnson on being recognized for their Commitment to Excellence. This staff recognition program celebrates staff who demonstrate the highest standards in their commitment to supporting our mission, vision and values. We…
The Duke Advancement of Nursing, Center of Excellence received the Practice Academe Innovation Collaboration Award from Sigma Theta Tau International Society of Nursing on Oct. 28 at the 44th Biennial Convention in Indianapolis. This practice-academe innovation…
Valerie Sabol, PhD, ACNP-BC, GNP-BC, ANEF, FAANP was recently inaugurated as president of the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA), for the 2017-2018 term, and won their Award for Excellence in Research. She won this award as a result of her commitment to research in nursing…
The Center for Nursing Research would like to announce the appointment of Julia Walker as the Lead of the Precision Health Research Area of Excellence.
Precision health capitalizes on advances in technologies and their increasing prevalence in genomics and digital health. We use…
Kudos to Heeyeon Son and her mentor Sharron Docherty for the submission of their American Cancer Society Student Scholarship application entitled: “Family Communication in Pediatric Palliative Care in Korea.” This proposal requests funding for a two-year period with a start date of…
PhD student Zhao Ni presented on Oct. 14 at the Duke Kunshan Conference on Digital Health Science and Innovation: Partnerships between Academia and Industry in Kunshan, China. His presentation was entitled "Using Mobile Technology to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in China."
Consulting associate Rosa Solorzano was recently featured in a Duke Today article about championing diversity and inclusion at Duke University. Solorzano was awarded the 2017 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion award for teaching cultural awareness and empathy to students working with diverse…
Marilyn Hockenberry and Cheryl Rodgers are editors of the pediatric section of Maternal Child Nursing Care, sixth edition.
The Center for Nursing Research presents the CNR Hub. This site replaces the research toolbox on the main website. In this site you will find links to request forms, research tools and documents, announcements, a calendar of labs and events, and other information helpful to research faculty. …
Staff member Charnetta Cooper recently completed the Durham Citizens Police Academy. As part of the program, she participated in training for: criminal investigations, community service outreach, education and intervention, traffic accident control, biological-chemical emergency response,…
Ryan Shaw presented on Oct. 14 at the Duke Kunshan Conference on Digital Health Science and Innovation: Partnerships between Academia and Industry in Kunshan, China. His presentation was entitled: "Mobile Health Technologies and Precision Health."
Devon Noonan recentlly received a Networking in Research Development small grant award for her proposal entitled “Collaboration with Mismo to develop a texting platform for tobacco cessation research.”
Eleanor McConnell and Kirsten Corazzini recently received a Networking in Research Development small grant award for their proposal entitled “Network-Level Outcome Measures that Matter for People Living with Dementia.”
We are sorry to announce that due to health and work related issues, Dr. Phil Cotton and the delegation from the University of Rwanda will not be able to visit in Oct. Please excuse any inconvenience that this may cause. The presentation was originally scheduled for Monday, Oct. 30…
Psychiatry Grand Rounds and Karen L. Wrenn Lectureship Present "What's Preventing Us from Preventing Alzheimer's?" on Nov. 30 from 12-1 p.m. This lecture will be given by Gary W. Small M.D. at the Great Hall, Trent Semans Center, Duke University Medical Center. A boxed lunch will be provided…