Save the date for a special guest lecture with Dr. Joan Reede on Friday, Jan. 26 from 12-1 p.m. as part of the professional development seminar series funded by the dean of the School of Medicine. Joan Reede, dean for diversity and community partnership at Harvard Medical School, was appointed…
Chris Plowe, who began his tenure as DGHI director on January 1, shared this message with the DGHI community during the first week of the new year: (Read More)
The Duke Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery is hosting a conference entitled "Selection and Medical Management of Weight Loss Surgery Patients" on Saturday, March 3 at The Umstead Hotel. This conference is an accredited conference and offers 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits and Nursing…
All faculty and trainees are invited to nominate research mentors in the Schools of Medicine and Nursing who exemplify the traits honored by this award. To be eligible, the nominated faculty member must be at the Associate Professor level or above (regular rank). Nominations may come from…
Please join us for the 2018 Duke University Research Computing Symposium on Monday, Jan. 22 at Penn Pavilion from 2- 5 p.m. This event will highlight collaborative research initiatives that use information technologies & big digital data in order to forge new directions in…
El Centro Hispano in collaboration with Duke School of Nursing and the Latino Health Project at Duke University are offering 10-week courses focusing on Medical Spanish. Classes start on Jan. 29 and continue through April 3.
The Medical Spanish program is designed especially for health care…
Congratulations to Wendy Perry, Karen Atwater and Nora Harrington 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…
Kudos to PhD student Eunji Cho and her mentor Sharron Docherty for the submission of their Oncology Nursing Society Foundation application entitled; “Human Flourishing in Young Adult Survivors of Adolescent Cancer: A Multiple Case Study.” This proposal requests funding for a one-year…
Kudos to Jennie De Gagne for the submission of her Josiah Macy Jr. Faculty Scholars application entitled "Development and Implementation of Interprofessional Cybercivility Teaching and Learning Resources: Toward the Quadruple Aim." This proposal requests funding for a two-year period with a…
Good news! Planning your visit to Studio B, DUSON’s professional quality recording studio is now easier than ever! Simply log in to Meeting Room Manager and check your calendar against the existing Studio B appointments, viewable in the first column on the left, as seen in the photo to the left.…
Last week, Nurses for Mental Health Awareness, a brand new student group, premiered their "Cranes for Life" exhibit on campus. The 1,100 hand made cranes on the exhibit represented the 1,100 completed suicide attempts that occur on college campuses across the United States each year. During…
Winter can be a challenging time for those of us who work in health care. When we actually get “winter weather,” folks in other lines of work get a two-hour delay or a “snow day,” but ours is a 24/7 operation that requires us not only to show up on time, but also be prepared to lend a hand in…
A faculty workshop focusing on how to write powerful op-eds and commentary pieces will be held on Friday, Feb. 16 from 9-11 a.m. in room 217 of Perkins Library. The workshop will be taught by Keith Lawrence, executive director of News and Communications.
Faculty who participate in the…
DGHI professors Kristin Schroeder and Nelson Chao are on a mission to ensure that all children with cancer have the same chance of a cure, no matter where they live in the world. They've been collaborating with partners at the Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) since 2014, to improve pediatric cancer…
The Graduate School has awarded seven Professional Development Grants to support discipline-specific programming for graduate students in 2018. The grants, established in 2014, award up to $2,000 to help graduate students and their departments create discipline-specific professional…
Victoria Goode, Michael Cary and Beth Merwin recently made a submission to Duke Forge for their inaugural design workshop. Their submission was entitled "Using Cluster Analysis to Develop New Classifications of Obesity to Determine Surgical Risk for and Total Joint Replacement Patients:…
The Duke Elder/Family Caregiver Training Center (DEFT) was selected to participate in the 2018 Fuqua Client Consulting Practicum (FCCP). They will be working with FCCP until the end of April, 2018. FCCP receives many applications from all over the world and DEFT was chosen through a rigorous…
Kudos to Leigh Ann Simmons and her entire team for their application submission to Translating Duke Heath – Children’s Health and Discovery Initiative entitled “Effect of Maternal Prenatal Morbidity on Early Childhood Risk Factors for Cardiometabolic Disease.” This proposal requests…
Kudos to post-doctoral fellow Kate Kim and her advisor, Eun-Ok Im for the submission of her L’Oreal USA Women in Science Fellowship application entitled: "The Influences of Chronic Stress on Preterm Birth: Race/Ethnicity-specific Algorithms Using a Machine Learning Approach…
Kudos to Nancy Crego and her entire team for the submission of her Duke REACH – Equity Investigator Development Award Program application entitled “A Culturally Tailored Communication Intervention for Parents of children with Sickle Cell Disease.” This proposal requests funding for a two-…
What would you do if you knew you had a year to live? A month? A day? How would you spend your time? Who would you spend it with? What would you do?
Please join us on Friday, Feb. 23 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Duke Chapel as we explore how these questions and the way that each of us…
Save the date for the Duke University Schools of Medicine and Nursing Spring Faculty Meeting. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, May 9 from 4:45-7:30 p.m. at the Doris Duke Center at Duke Gardens.
The Salud, Estres, Y Resiliencia (SER) Hispano study officially launched recently with a training and kick-off event at DUSON. Study team members include Principal Investigator, Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, and Co-Investigators Irene Felsman, Rosa Solarzano and Julia Walker. Additional DUSON staff…
DUSON is committed to the safety of its faculty, staff and students. This month's awareness focuses on what you should do if a tornado strikes:
Stay inside until danger has passed.
Seek shelter on the lowest building level, interior rooms or hallways with interior walls. Use interior spaces with…
For the Spring 2018 semester, master’s students at Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) have the opportunity to enroll in a new major: Psychiatric Mental Health. It’s the eighth and latest major offered for nurse practitioner students, following closely on the heels of the Women’s Health major…