The Durham community needs you! The Duke IPEC Center (Duke Health Interprofessional Education and Care Center) is organizing a friendly competition between our health care programs challenging each program to raise the most amount of goods for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina.…
Marva Price, associate professor emerita and DUSON's first African-American faculty member, was interviewed by WRAL's Leslie Moreno for the story "COVID vaccine hesitancy in minority communities." In the video, Price expressed her concern about people who don't speak English as a first…
Chiyoung Lee, PhD'20, released "The Contribution of Material, Behavioral, Psychological, and Social-Relational Factors to Income-Related Disparities in Cardiovascular Risk Among Older Adults" in The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing with Qing Yang and Eleanor McConnell, associate…
Chiyoung Lee, PhD'20, published "A 10-year trend in income disparity of cardiovascular health among older adults in South Korea" in SSM - Population Health with Qing Yang and Eleanor McConnell, associate professors and Lee's committee members, Eun-Ok Im, former associate dean for…
Racial Justice Committees Town Hall
Join the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Dean's Office on May 5 from 2 to 3 p.m. EST, for a virtual Racial Justice Committees Town Hall. This Town Hall will be held on Zoom and provide updates on the Racial Justice Task Force…
The Duke Health Center for Interprofessional Education and Care and its Student Advisory Committee hosted a successful night of trivia on Wednesday, April 21, from 7 to 8 p.m. This event was for current and incoming students in all of Duke's professional programs (SOM and SON). A total of 58…
Kudos to PhD student Amnazo Muhirwa and her sponsor Devon Noonan, associate professor, for the resubmission of her NIH NRSA application entitled: "Stress, the Superwoman Schema and Cardiovascular Wellbeing in Rural African American Women." This proposal requests funding for a 16-month period with a…
Jacquelyn M. McMillian-Bohler, assistant professor, was interviewed for the ABC News story "Black women turn to doulas as maternal mortality crisis deepens" by Katie Kindelan for "Good Morning America."
April 11-17 is Black Maternal Health Week, a time to put a spotlight on and have a…
As the demand for primary care increases so does the need for registered nurses (RN) in expanded roles within primary care settings. In response to this need, the Duke University School of Nursing now offers a course that provides practicing RNs distinctive knowledge that will enhance their skill…
Please join us for our fourth and final event of the semester! We are thrilled about the success of this series on sexual and gender diversity so far and excited for you to join the last panel on "Conversations of Culture: Faith, Identity, Sexuality and Gender."
The DUSON Spectrum student…
It's Celebrate Diversity Month! To celebrate, browse through Duke Health's graphics for Zoom, etc, and look through the system's multiple opportunities for education and training. Duke Health's graphics can be found in the S:Drive at S:Drive > Team Projects > Marketing &…
Paula Tanabe, vice dean, Research, published with "Dissemination of Evidence-Based Recommendations for Sickle Cell Disease to Primary Care and Emergency Department Providers in North Carolina: A Cost Benefit Analysis" in JHEOR with Emily Bonnabeau, who served as clinical research coordinator…
Duke’s Institute for Healthcare Improvement Chapter is seeking applicants for Duke IHI leadership in 2021-22. Applications are due by midnight on April 14. Positions are open to students in any professional school at any level. If interested, please complete the online application. More…
Donna Biederman, associate professor and D-CHIPP director, Michelle Hartman, assistant dean, ABSN Program, Irene Felsman, assistant professor, Heather Mountz, program coordinator, D-CHIPP Community Health, and Devon Noonan, associate professor, contributed to "Improving the Health of Public…
John Myers, faculty, Assistant Professors Hanzhang Xu and Allison Lewinski, Jackie Brown, research program leader, Jessie Byrd, clinical research coordinator, and Christin Daniels, assistant dean, Research Development, were recently awarded a Duke Faculty Seed Advancement grant to…
AnnMarie Walton, assistant professor, participated in the "Protecting People and Planetary Health Webinar" on Earth Day, April 22, from noon to 1 p.m. DUSON presented the event with Sustainable Duke and Nurses Climate Challenge, of which DUSON is a School of Nursing partner. View the recording…
Matthew LeBlanc, PhD student, and Associate Professors Donald Bailey and Sophia Smith co-authored "A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Living With Multiple Myeloma" in Oncology Nursing Forum. Thomas LeBlanc and Kathryn Pollak, with Duke School of Medicine, also contributed. This…
Hailey Miller, postdoctoral associate, published "The impact of discrimination on allostatic load in adults: An integrative review of literature" in Journal of Psychosomatic Research.
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Objective: The objective of the paper is to…
Victoria Goode, associate consulting professor, Michael Cary, associate professor, Nancy Crego, assistant professor, and Deirdre Thornlow, associate professor, wrote "Using Clinical Data to Improve the Quality of Health Care" in Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing, official journal of the…
Jennie De Gagne, professor, co-authored "Life satisfaction of multicultural married couples: Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Analysis" in Health Care for Women International.
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We aimed to identify the actor and partner effects of health status,…
Elizabeth Rodriguez, DNP'10, was profiled in Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's "Women Leaders at MSK: Elizabeth Rodriguez" profile. Rodriguez is director of nursing for the David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care. Her contributions were central to MSK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.…
DUSON's 90th anniversary is featured in the April/May issue of Working@Duke. Stephen Schramm interviewed Barbara Turner, interim assistant dean, DNP Program, and the school's current longest serving faculty member, for his feature story. Turner joined our faculty in 1993.
Congratulations to Ryan Shaw, associate professor, Matthew Crowley and their entire team, who have received an award for their NIH R01 proposal entitled: “Expanding Technology-Enabled, Nurse-Delivered Chronic Disease Care (EXTEND)." This award is for a five-year period, awarded March 15, 2021, to…
Congratulations to Julia Walker, professor, and her entire team who have received an award for their NIH R01 proposal entitled: “Novel Biased Beta2-AR Ligands as Asthma Therapeutics." This award is for a five-year period, awarded March 15, 2021, to February 28, 2026.
Agonists of the beta-2-…
Congratulations to Brandon Knettel, assistant professor, who has received an award for his NIH K08 Career proposal entitled: “Telehealth to Reduce Suicidality and lmprove HIV Care Engagement in Tanzania." This award is for a four-year period, awarded April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2025.
Suicidal…