Communicating Truth: Dr. Cameron Wolfe
Dr. Wolfe emerged as a key figure at Duke during the pandemic, patiently explaining the threat to the public while helping shape both the hospital’s efforts to save patients’ lives and the university’s efforts to keep students safe.
Engaging the Community: Dr. Susanna Naggie
Dr. Susanna Naggie and her colleagues at Duke University School of Medicine knew that COVID-19 was disproportionately impacting communities of color through higher rates of infection, severity of disease and associated adverse outcomes. Determined to be part of the solution, they set out to understand and address these disparities in real time.
Duke Health Community Comes Together to Celebrate Durham Pride
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.
Yi Zeng Selected as One of the Healthy Ageing 50
Yi Zeng, PhD, professor of medicine, has been selected and recognized as one of the “Healthy Ageing 50” by the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing.
Homegrown 'Just Ask' Program Rolls Out Nationally
The official adaptation of "Just ASK: Increasing Diversity in Clinical Research Participation" — a course developed and piloted at Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) five years ago by Nadine Barrett, PhD — has rolled out nationally.
Chancellor’s Distinguished Professorship Established; Lefkowitz Named Inaugural Recipient
Duke Health today announced the establishment of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professorship. The inaugural recipient is Robert Lefkowitz, MD, James B.
Better Maternal Health, Better Infant Health: Growing Up with Project HOPE 1000
The Project HOPE 1000 research initiative lays the groundwork to answer questions about maternal and childhood health such as the impact of obesity during pregnancy or pathological factors underlying pre-term birth.
Newly Discovered Barrier Prevents Immunity from Reaching Smell-sensing Cells
Duke scientists have identified a previously unknown barrier that separates the bloodstream from smelling cells in the upper airway of mice, likely as a way to protect the brain.
But this barrier also ends up keeping some of the larger molecules of the body’s immune system out, and that may be hindering the effectiveness of vaccines.
Elizabeth Harden MD’78: Investing in the Future of Medicine
At some schools, women applicants were discouraged from pursuing a career in medicine, because it was assumed they couldn’t keep up, or would leave the profession once married.
Harden found no such attitudes at Duke.
Large Survey Identifies Toll of Pandemic on Health Care Worker Exhaustion
COVID exacted a huge toll on the wellbeing of health care workers. Already struggling with high levels of emotional exhaustion going into the pandemic, the problem grew even worse after two years of managing the crisis. Nurses have been especially hard hit.