Voting is now open for this year's NC Board of Nursing elections, and several candidates in the Registered Nurse - APRN category have connections to DUSON. Voting is open until August 15 at midnight.
Alzora Benjamin: MSN '08
John Brion: Faculty
LaDonna Thomas: Consulting…
Assistant Professors Kara McGee and Schenita Randolph and Micheal Relf, associate dean for global and community health affairs, contributed to the article "Alarm at the Gate — Health and Social Inequalities are Comorbid Conditions of HIV and COVID-19" for the Journal of the…
Kudos to Deborah H. Allen, DANCE member from Duke University Health System, and her entire team for their submission of their STT/ANCC proposal entitled: “Implementing Ipsilateral Peripheral Intravenous Access Procedures for Routine Scanning in Patients with History of Surgical…
Kudos to Multi PIs Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, associate professor, and Krista Perreira (UNC-CH) and their entire team for the submission of their NIH NCATS (R21) proposal entitled: “CASA Latina: Community Academic Strategic Alliance for Research with Hispanic/Latino(x) Populations." This project…
Callie Tennyson, DNP, ACNP-BC, AACC, CHSE, joined DUSON’s faculty in 2017. She is now the Director of the Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner-Acute Care program and a Healthcare in Adult Populations Division member. She has a joint appointment with the Duke University Health System and practices…
Dr. Nikki Blodgett, PhD, RN, CHSE, is the Director of the Center for Nursing Discovery (CND) and an Assistant Professor at the Duke University School of Nursing. As the CND Director, she works with faculty to incorporate standards of best practices in simulation into their courses, helps to design…
Dr. Charles Watts, the first African American board-certified surgeon in North Carolina, founded Lincoln Community Health Center (LCHC) in September of 1971. The original site of the health center was in the basement of the old Lincoln Hospital. In 1976, Lincoln Hospital, serving predominately the…
I am very pleased to announce that my office and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion are partnering to begin developing a Racial Justice Action Plan for DUSON. This effort dovetails with President Price’s email on June 17, 2020, when he called for institutional transformation and our…
Schenita D. Randolph, PhD, MPH, RN, CNE, assistant professor, has been selected to be a part of an inaugural cohort for a new fellowship program focused on nurse leadership and innovation.
The new Betty Irene Moore Fellowships for Nurse Leaders and Innovators fellowship program serves to…
Several DUSON faculty and staff, as well as a student, are participants of the Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19 (Latin-19) community group, which comprises community stakeholders from Durham, Orange and Wake counties.…
Several faculty and staff coauthored the "Academic-Practice Partnership for Caregiver Training and Support" article for the North Carolina Medical Journal. DUSON contributors include Cristina C. Hendrix, associate professor, Doreen Matters, DEFT program director, Tamara Griffin, DEFT…
Congratulations to Schenita Randolph, assistant professor, and the entire research team for the award for their proposal to Gilead Sciences, Inc. entitled: “A Salon-Based, Multi-level Intervention to Improve PrEP Uptake Among Black Women Living in the United States South." The award…
Kudos to Dominique Bulgin, postdoctoral fellow, her mentor Paula Tanabe, associate dean for research, and her entire team for their award for Bulgin's REACH Equity Research Scholars Development proposal entitled: “Piloting Telehealth Personalized Health Planning in Shared Medical…
A workshop titled "Leveraging the Power of Nurses: Promoting Health Equity through a Framework of Cultural Humility" will occur virtually on July 27 from 3 to 4 p.m.
This webinar is part of a series by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action to support nurses in their ongoing effort to…
ABSN student Kimberly Coston has spent some of her time during the pandemic teaching herself advance jumping rope moves. Watch this video to see Coston's new skills at work, set to tune of Bastille's "Pompeii."
Elizabeth Barfield, MSN'72, BSN'70, was profiled in the news story "Former CSUSB nursing department chair is recipient of distinguished alumnus award from Duke University" for the California State University, San Bernardino, website. Barfield was one of the recipients of…
Micheal Cary, associate professor, will succeed Hyeoneui Kim, associate professor, as Data Science Research Area of Excellence (RAE) lead. Kim is stepping down so that she can lead the Health Informatics MSN program on a more permanent basis.
"I would like to thank Dr. Kim for her…
Donna Biederman, D-CHIPP director, and Heather Mountz, D-CHIPP coordinator, have accepted leadership roles with the Partnership for Healthy Durham. Biederman is continuing as co-chair for a second year of the Health and Housing Committee, and Mountz accepted a one-year term as co-…
Duke offers a robust and supportive infrastructure to help faculty members, postdocs and students find funding opportunities. In addition to the many funding announcement listservs and newsletters, you can customize your myResearchHome web page to search for funding opportunities relevant to…