Associate Professor
Campus mail:
Duke Box 102359, Div Of Infectious Diseases, Durham, NC 27710
Phone:
(919) 668-7174
Dr. Chu's clinical research is focused on staphylococci and endocarditis (IE). She is the director of the International Collaboration on Endocarditis (ICE), a group of investigators from 78 sites in 32 countries worldwide that is dedicated to further the understanding of infective endocarditis. The ICE database comprises > 5000 cases of endocarditis and is designed to answer questions that could not be answered from a single-center study. The current focus of this group is surgical-decision making in the treatment of endocarditis. Another major focus of Dr. Chu's research is on the relationship between oral hygiene and risk for developing infective endocarditis.
Education and Training
- Columbia University, M.D. 2000
- Duke University, Medical Resident, Medicine
- Duke University, Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Medicine
Selected Grants and Awards
- Duke Summer Training in Academic Research (Duke's STAR)
- Bridging the Gap to Enhance Clinical Research Program (BIGGER)
- Optimizing treatment for E. faecalis infective endocarditis: ampicillin plus ceftriaxone versus ampicillin plus gentamicin
- Oral Hygiene, Periodontal Disease and Infective Endocarditis
- Duke CTSA (UL1)
- NIH Summer Research Experience Programs (R25)
- DCRI Sub BAA-NIAID-DMID-NIHAI2005025
- Optimizing duration of antibiotics after valve surgery for infective endocarditis