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…
DNP alumna Gwen Klinkner and Allison Vorderstrasse recently published an article entitled "Improving Diabetes Self-Management Support: Goal-Setting Across the Continuum of Care" in Clinical Diabetes. Co-authors include experts from University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
Abstract
Goal-…
DNP and MSN alumna Priscilla Ramseur was recently featured in an article entitled "TBJ reveals 2018 class of Health Care Heroes Awards winners" published in the Triangle Business Journal (TBJ).
Ramseur was among 24 individuals to receive a 2018 Health Care Heroes Award and will be…
Congratulations to Karen Judge on being recognized for her 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 thank all staff members who…
PhD student Bada Kang was recently awarded a fieldwork grant for $5,000 to support her fieldwork activities for the Global Health Doctoral Certificate program. The award will support travel, room, supplies and other expenses related to the research experiences proposed for the Spring and…
To become a leader in nursing education, a school must provide faculty and staff with resources to stay on the cutting edge. At the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON), we know what it takes. We’ve worked hard to become a top school and our strategic plan will keep us on a path of excellence…
On Feb. 12, from 12 until1 p.m., bring a lunch to room 837 in Erwin Square to learn how to effectively communicate your science to a broader audience with TV news and documentary filmmarker, Solly Granatstein.
Granatstein will discuss "Presenting Science to a Lay Audience: The Human Factor"…
Nurses for Mental Health Awareness, a new student group at DUSON, now nationally affiliated with Active Minds, will be sponsoring “Cranes for Life”, an exhibit in the atrium from Feb. 5-9. The 1,100 hand made cranes on the exhibit represent the 1,100 completed suicide attempts that occur on college…
Duke University School of Nursing welcomes Mercado, Dixon and Carreno!
Maralis Mercado joined DUSON as a clinical research coordinator on Jan. 2, 2018.
Be'Ledda Dixon joined DUSON as an educational technology specialist on Jan. 3, 2018.
Michelle Carreno joined DUSON as a…
DNP- nurse anesthesia alumni Matthew Heyes, Lauren Schnitzen, Deana Staff and faculty members Charles Vacchiano, Chris Muckler and Frank Titch recently published an article entitled "Recertification and Reentry to Practice for Nurse Anesthetists: Determining Core Competencies and Evaluating…
Kudos to PhD student Dominique Bulgin and her mentor Paula Tanabe for the submission of their Heilbrunn Nurse Scholar application entitled “Understanding Stigma and Self-Management of Sickle Cell Disease.” This proposal is for a two-year period with a start date of April 1, 2018.
Sickle…
Kudos to PhD student Gabrielle Harris and her mentor Janet Prvu-Bettger for the submission of their Heilbrunn Nurse Scholar application entitled; “Parenting and Stroke Recovery.” This proposal is for a two-year period with a start date of April 1, 2018.
Stroke is the leading cause of…
Kudos to PhD student Michelle Franklin and her mentor Sharron Docherty for the submission of their Heilbrunn Nurse Scholar application entitled “Examination of the Transition into Adulthood for Individuals with Low Cognitive Ability through a Life Course Perspective.” This proposal is for…
The Center for Nursing Research recently announced its small grant awardees:
Devon Noonan who received a Population Health small grant award for her proposal titled “DeStress for Health: Addressing Stress in Granville and Vance Counties”
Eleanor McConnell & Dr. Kirsten Corazzini who…
Please join me in welcoming Dori Steinberg and Mitchell Knisely to DUSON!
Dori Steinberg, PhD, MS, RD, joined our faculty on Jan. 1, 2018 and is a member of the Clinical Health Systems and Analytics Division.
Dr. Steinberg started at Duke in 2012 as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the…
Wildfire expert Toddi Steelman, the first permanent executive director at the University of Saskatchewan’s School of Environment and Sustainability (SENS), has been selected as the next dean of Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment effective July 1, Duke President Vincent Price and…