EDI News

Giselle Y. López, MD, PhD, was a keynote speaker, along with Gabriela Maradiaga Panayotti, MD, for the inaugural Duke Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) Hispanic Heritage Month Gala on Sept. 15th at Duke’s Trent Semans Center for Health Education. She has Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, and spoke about her experiences as a Latina medical professional, emphasizing the importance of community in Latin American cultures.

The city of Durham held Pride: Durham, NC, on Sept. 24, with many from Duke Health coming together as a community to celebrate inclusion, community, family, pride, and activism. As a financial and programming sponsor, Duke Health invited employees and their families to participate in the festivities.  

The day included a parade and a “medical village” hosted by Duke on East Campus to highlight Duke’s LGBTQ+ affirming care services, including a Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic staffed by volunteer team members. The event was organized by the LGBTQ+ Center of Durham. 

Study links lower test scores among Black North Carolina fourth graders to environmental exposure in racially segregated neighborhoods.

The Duke University School of Medicine welcomes incoming students from across the country and around the world as they start their health professions careers at the School of Medicine this month.  

Although typically classified as a single ethnic group, people of Hispanic heritage have markedly different risks for brain tumors based on their geographic origins, suggesting greater diversity that warrants attention in the health care setting.

This summer, eight scholars from across the country were paired with a faculty research mentor to learn laboratory skills, designing a research project, and effectively presenting future research.

The fellowship program aims to build a community committed to advancing science through diversity and inclusion.

Mary E. Klotman, MD, dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, announced today the creation of the Onyekwere E. Akwari, MD, Endowed Professorship, and named Lisa McElroy, MD, MS, assistant professor of surgery and population health sciences, the inaugural recipient of this new professorship.

A team from Duke University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine was awarded third place by the American Heart Association for a project addressing the elements of structural racism that lead to poor heart health.

The MOSAIC program is part of the National Institutes of Health’s efforts to enhance diversity within the academic biomedical research workforce and is designed to facilitate the transition of promising postdoctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds into independent, tenure-track or equivalent research-intensive faculty positions.