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…
Data is the foundation of scientific discovery and how we manage, store, govern and share it is essential for upholding scientific integrity.
Data management is a hot topic at many federal agencies including NIH and NSF. AHRQ published a notice on May 26, 2020, regarding its new policy requiring…
International collaborations in research and education are vital to our work in advancing Duke’s mission. Due to a number of threats identified in 2018 related to foreign influence and diversion of intellectual property, many federal agencies such as NIH, NSF and DOD have increased scrutiny on…
The NIH now requires FORMS-F for proposal application submissions. Tour this six-minute video which describes each of the five sections of a study record and points out which fields are required for human subjects and clinical trial studies. You can also view a summary of significant form changes,…
Susan Silva, associate professor, will step in as interim director of the Research Design and Statistics Core, located in the school's Center for Nursing Research, from July 13 to September 1. Silva temporarily will replace Shein-Chung Chow, who has …
Ernest J. Grant has been re-elected to a second term as the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) national president. The voting representatives of ANA's Membership Assembly also elected four members to the nine-member board of directors. Terms of service will begin January 1, 2021. Visit the ANA…