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At the Research Town Hall Caring for Your Data, Dr. Michael Pencina, Vice Dean for Data Science and Information Technology at the School of Medicine and Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, talked about the importance of FAIR Principles and invited the audience to focus on what we can do with data and not on what we can’t do” in terms of the potential to analyze and compare data with current and expanding technologies.

"Dear DOSI": Questions from the Audience of our Research Town Halls Before and after each of our monthly town-halls, ASIST collects questions and topics of interest from the audience

The Duke Center for REsearch to Advance HealthCare Equity (REACH Equity) has selected the second cohort of Career Development Awardees – REACH Equity Scholars.  Targeting junior faculty, these two-year awards support mentored research projects focusing on the REACH Equity theme: addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health by developing and testing interventions that improve the quality of patient-centered care in the clinical encounter – a setting in which racial and ethnic disparities are well-documented.

Two School of Medicine faculty members-- Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, and Stuart Alexander Cook, BsC, MBBS, MRCP, PhD—were inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation at an April 6 joint meeting of ASCI, the Association of American Physicians (AAP), and the American Physician-Scientists Association (APSA).

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  Four School of Medicine faculty members were inducted into the Association of American Physicians (AAP) during a joint April 6 meeting of the AAP, the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the American Physician-Scientists Association (APSA). Membership in AAP is a distinction recognizing excellence and outstanding achievement.

Dr. Bedoya was the first fellow that piloted the Clinical Informatics Fellowship. The Master of Management in Clinical Informatics (MMCi) program is the educational component of the Fellowship. Since graduating from MMCi in 2017, Dr. Bedoya was selected as the first Medical Director for Duke’s Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) team.

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Like fingerprints, everyone has a unique gut microbiome.

A key component of the Duke University School of Medicine’s strategic research plan is the establishment of a learning health system. The goal: to ensure that the large amounts of protected health data collected from current and previous patients as well as data realized through research projects can be more effectively used to improve patient care.