The Society of Behavioral Medicine has announced that its 42nd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions in April 2021 will be entirely virtual. Those interested can submit their abstracts starting in August. Dori Steinberg, associate professor, is the program committee's chair.
Stephanie Turner, Public Relations Specialist, was featured in the "Finding Silver Linings in the Midst of a Pandemic" Duke TODAY article. In the article, Turner, who spends time engaging in the local performing arts outside of work, discusses shifting to acting and taking voice lessons in a…
The Duke Emergency Nursing Students (DENS) Club is pleased to announce the launch of a Virtual 5K to benefit the charity MedSupply Drive, a student-led coalition that seeks to provide necessary PPE to health care and essential workers all over the United States.
Registration will be $7,…
PhD students, Lauren Holt and Lisvel Matos, were recently selected as fellows for the DUSON PhD Margolis Scholars Program.
Holt and Matos will join Margolis Scholars from public policy and law schools as well as the broader Margolis Center community. The program aims to prepare doctoral…
Midge Bowers, associate professor, was interviewed by Diana Bures McNeill with the Duke School of Medicine for the second episode of Duke AHEAD's podcast DATE - Duke AHEAD Talks Education. The episode that features Bowers is titled "How To Encourage Our Students To Be Effective Online…
Melissa K. Robinson, MSN '19, and Kristi Coe, consulting associate, published "A Case Report of Donnai-Barrow Syndrome" article in the Advances in Neonatal Care with former DUSON assistant professor Wanda Bradshaw.
Abstract
Background
A genetic…
Susan Silva, associate professor, contributed to the "Comparative efficacy and acceptability of antidepressants, psychotherapies, and their combination for acute treatment of children and adolescents with depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis" article published in the…
Danett S. Cantey, clinical nurse educator, co-published the "HI I CARE: A mnemonic device to frame safe patient encounters and support simulation experiences for novice nursing students" article in the Teaching and Learning in Nursing with Velinda Chapman, former DUSON clinical instructor. …
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…