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The following are links shared during the May RCA!  The Physician-Scientist Career in the COVID-19 Era Town Hall, featuring our distiguished panelists, Dr. Andrew Alspaugh,  Vice Chair of Academic Affairs and Professor of Medicine; Dr. Ann Brown,  Vice Dean for Faculty and Professor of Medicine, and Catherine Liao, MSPH, Associate Vice President, Duke Health Government Relations

This article was first published by the Duke Cancer Institute As a third-year student at Washington University School of Medicine, Oluwadamilola "Lola" Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, met a patient who taught her that the women she serves are far more than the information in their medical records.

We know fiber is good for us and is an important part of our diet. One way to get more fiber in our diets is to take fiber supplements, and if we take fiber supplements, our microbiome is going to love us.

With about an eight percent survival rate in the first five years, pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers humans face.

Speculation that a vaccine for COVID-19 might be widely available by the end of this year is overly optimistic, say three Duke experts.

  Research Resilience in the Age of COVID-19: Insights from Sponsors and Investigators   Thursday, July 9, 2:00 - 4:30 pm Zoom Registration: https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsd--hrDkrHtGQuhyEbjNmpKRD65nlycPs CTSA Co-Hosts: Duke, UNC, and Wake Forest The event will include:

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded the Duke Physician Assistant Program a $2 million five-year grant for the project “Physician Assistant Leaders in Underserved Communities.” 

C. Keith Ozaki, AB’84, MD’88, majored in political science as an undergraduate at Duke, but he soon found himself drawn toward the life sciences. “I felt like we were studying the real world, as opposed to the man-made world of politics and policy,” says Ozaki, the John A. Mannick Professor of Surgery and vice-chair of the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. “Pretty early on, I decided I wanted to explore science and medicine.”

If you’re in public and see someone wearing a mask, that person is doing it for your benefit. So return the favor.

New study will follow, test hundreds of volunteers as part of state effort to monitor disease Duke’s MURDOCK Study has launched a COVID-19 research project to follow the health of hundreds of North Carolina volunteers for several months. The study will also test a sub-group for COVID-19 infection and potential immunity to the novel coronavirus that causes the disease.