Bringing a New Vision of Occupational Therapy to Duke
When the job announcement first popped up in Barb Hooper’s email inbox, she didn’t bother to open it. She was an associate professor at Colorado State, and as director of the Center for Occupational Therapy Education, her focus was on the educational component of occupational therapy. The email announcement was for a position to develop a new occupational therapy program at Duke, and Hooper presumed she wouldn’t be quite what they were looking for.
Announcing the Genomic Technologies Pilot Grant Winners
PGC in collaboration with CAGT offered pilot grants to investigators to develop and/or apply genomic technologies to significant questions in the study or treatment of human disease. These one-year, $20,000 pilot grants were open to investigators at all stages in their careers.
Svati Shah, MD, MHS, Named the Director of Duke Kannapolis Research
CTSI announces that Svati Shah, MD, MHS, has been named the Director of Duke Kannapolis Research. In this role, she will direct all activities and projects based at the Duke CTSI clinical research facility in Kannapolis.
MeTree software recommended by President’s Cancer Panel
The President's Cancer Panel has recommended MeTree, as a tool to facilitate clinical decision-making, which asks patients to enter information such as diet, exercise, smoking, and family history.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Names Charlene Wong, MD, MSHP, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families of the Newly Launched Division of Child and Family Well-Being
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced the launch of the Division of Child and Family Well-Being to help achieve its vision of children who are healthy and who thrive in safe, stable and nurturing families, schools and communities.
Multiple Tobacco Product Use Conceptual Framework: A 2021 Update on Evidence
https://academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ntr/ntac032/65…
Omicron Antibodies Persist 6 Months after Moderna Vaccine Boost But Are 6 Times Lower
A booster dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine showed signs of waning antibody levels against the Omicron variant after six months, but the antibodies still remained effective against the variant in laboratory tests, according to a Jan. 26 study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The First AI Breast Cancer Sleuth That Shows Its Work
Computer engineers and radiologists at Duke University have developed an artificial intelligence platform to analyze potentially cancerous lesions in mammography scans to determine if a patient should receive an invasive biopsy, and it shows physicians exactly how it came to its conclusions.