Anne L. Derouin, associate professor, will participate in the virtual event "Substance Use Prevention with Equity: A Community & Neuroscience-Based Approach” on Sept. 25. The event is jointly sponsored by Together for Resilient Youth Drug Free Community Coalition and the Center on…
Angela Richard-Eaglin, assistant professor and chair of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Diversity Special Interest Group (SIG), led efforts in developing a three-part webinar series entitled "Eliminating Microaggressions in Academia." Richard-Eaglin and Iris…
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Here is a quick refresher on creating your best online presence:
Think about Zoom the same as if you were sitting at a table in a conference room. It’s natural to show your head and shoulders in your camera feed. Anything more or less…
Jamie Wrenshall-Ridout, MSN '00, has been nominated as treasurer of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), a nationally-recognized professional organization. Wrenshall-Ridout is the administrator of Raleigh-based Capital City Surgery Center, a multi-specialty…
Sarah Rollison, DNP '18, was recently named the interim chief CRNA for Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She joined the CRNA management team in 2020 as lead of orientation and special projects. Congratulations, Sarah!
Stephanie Frisch, MSN alum, was selected as one of three Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)'s Future of Nursing Scholars. She will receive a post-doctoral fellowship award this year. The three Scholars are members of the program’s fourth cohort and will each receive $50,000 from…
The Event Management System (EMS) now works with Outlook. Learn how to book a video conference or meeting in EMS through Outlook on the Faculty and Staff Resources page.
Kudos to Julia Walker, professor, and her entire team for the submission of their NIH R01 application entitled: "Novel Biased Beta2-AR Ligands as Asthma Therapeutics." This proposal requests funding for a five-year period with a start date…
Jennie De Gagne, professor, has become a VoiceThread Certified Educator. To earn this credit, she completed a two-week online course and a capstone project demonstrating mastery of VoiceThread’s various features and sound pedagogy through course design. De Gagne's capstone project involved an…
Marilyn Oermann, Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing, presented the webinars "Assessment of Learning: Formative" and "Summative Tools and Developing Evidence-based Clinical Evaluation Tools." These webinars were provided by DB Productions.
Beth McVey, DNP '16, published "Evidence-Based Approach to Healthy Food Choices for Hispanic Women" in the Hispanic Health Care International, the official journal of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. B. Iris Padilla, assistant professor, is listed as a co-author. …
Amie Koch, assistant professor, wrote "Improving the health of mothers living in poverty" for the American Nurse journal produced by the American Nurses Association (ANA). The article discusses the evidence-based healthy lifestyle curriculum Koch created for mothers living in poverty…
Kudos to Amnazo Muhirwa, PhD student, and her sponsor Devon Noonan, associate professor, for the submission of her NRSA Fellowship application entitled: “Stress, the Superwoman Schema and Cardiovascular Wellbeing in Rural African American Women." This proposal requests funds for a two-…
Dean Marion E. Broome chairs American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)'s new Research-Focused Doctoral Program Pathways to Excellence Task Force. The task force is charged with revising AACN’s 2010 position statement on The Research-Focused Doctoral Program in Nursing:…
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has elected Lisa Macon Harrison, DUSON consulting associate and local health director of Granville Vance Public Health, to its 2020-2021 Board of Directors as Vice President. NACCHO is the voice of the nation’s nearly 3…
The Duke Center for REsearch to AdvanCe Healthcare Equity (REACH Equity) is seeking applications for an internal mentored research career development award (CDA) for junior investigators proposing research related to the Center’s theme of addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health by…
Olivia Raulf, ABSN student, was highlighted in a news profile by her alma mater High Point University. In the profile, Raulf discussed how her experiences at High Point helped her decide to pursue a nursing career. Welcome to DUSON, Olivia!
Congratulations to Tara Albrecht, assistant professor, and her entire team who have received an award for their Oncology Nursing Foundation proposal entitled: “Testing a Nurse-Led Evidence-Based Exercise Program to Improve Patient-Reported Outcomes in Adults with Acute Leukemia.” This…
The NIH is making changes to their Notice of Award (NoA) starting October 1. As outlined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement (GPS), Section 5, the NoA is the legal document issued to notify the recipient that an award has been made and that funds may be requested from the designated HHS…
Ran Xiao, assistant professor, gave a poster presentation at Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference, which ran virtually August 7-8. He presented a presentation called “Cross-Institutional Evaluation of SuperAlarm Algorithm for Predicting In-Hospital Code Blue Events." …
Debra Brandon, associate professor, has received the 2020 National Association of Neonatal Nurses's Lifetime Achievement in Neonatal Nursing Award. This award recognizes an individual’s longstanding commitment to and profound impact on the field of neonatal nursing.
Brandon has made sustained and…
Kais Gadhoumi, assistant professor, will present his abstract and poster at this year's Machine Learning for Healthcare (MLHC) conference. His presentation is titled “Neurovascular Coupling in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke." The conference will be held online from August 7 to 8…
Rachel Marie Towle, DNP '18, published her capstone project, "Quality improvement study on early recognition and intervention of caregiver burden in a tertiary hospital," in BMJ Open Quality. Cristina Hendrix, associate professor, is listed as a coauthor.
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Congratulations to Xiao Hu, Ann Henshaw Gardiner Distinguished Professor of Nursing, and his entire team who have received an award for their NIH R01 proposal entitled: "Integrate Dynamic System Model and Machine Learning for Calibration-Free Noninvasive ICP" (NOVEL). This award is…
1957-2020
Libby Ladd passed away unexpectedly on Friday, July 17. With 22 years of service working at Duke, she was most recently Senior Program Coordinator in the Center for Nursing Research at the Duke University School of Nursing. As her…