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OBGE Professional Development Series with the Duke Career Center Thursday, April 28 at 4:00pm Moderator: Rudi Rudisill, Assistant Director, Duke Career Center Sign up here for the Zoom link

Student Program Advisor Date Title Patrick Ferree

Nominate someone to a representative for the School of Medicine PhD programs on GPSG here! Nominations close May 1st. The Secretariat is the representative body which helps shape policy and advocacy efforts in the Graduate Student and Professional government. For more information on the GPSG Secretariat reach out to Abby Leinroth (apl18@duke.edu) or Jay Lusk.

Leadership and Management Training Pilot

Lori Orlando, will present on during Public Health Genetics Week on “Family Health History: A Critical Component of Precision Public Health.”

Dr. Emily M. D'Agostino had this article accepted by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: Standardizing, Harmonizing, and Protecting Data Collection to Broaden the Impact of COVID-19 Research: The Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) Initiative.

On April 8, the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) and the Central Application Service for Physician Assistants (CASPA) announced they will be expanding their popular fee waiver program to cover more of the fees associated with applying to PA school.

Duke Physician Assistant Program alumn Kate Pocock ('13) spent the first part of the pandemic working in Arizona on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. The multidisciplinary team worked with Indian Health Services (IHS) to take an in-person approach to contact tracing.

Rasheed Gbadegesin, MD, MBBS, of Duke University School of Medicine has been elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP). He was inducted during the joint meeting of the AAP, the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and the American Physician-Scientists Association (APSA) on April 8, 2022.

OTD faculty and students presented at AOTA’s annual meeting in April. Congratulations to Tomeico Faison, OTD, on receiving the Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Occupational Therapy!  Congratulations to the following students who did an outstanding job representing Duke OTD at AOTA: