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Congratulations to Priscille Schettini on her recent publication, "Closing the Referral Loop," in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.  Patel, MP, Schettini, P, O'Leary, CP, Bosworth, HB, Anderson, JB, and Shah, KP. "Closing the Referral Loop: an Analysis of Primary Care Referrals to Specialists in a Large Health System." Journal of general internal medicine (March 12, 2018). PMID: 29532299

Congratulations to Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH, and Sallie Permar, MD, PhD, on their selection as 2018-2019 fellows of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women. ELAM is a prestigious national fellowship that aims to increase and sustain the number and impact of women in academic leadership positions in the health sciences.

As a result of a larger aging population, combined with improvements in cancer screening and care, up to 30 percent of patients with solid tumor cancers can expect their cancer to return, traveling to other parts of the body, including the brain.

The April 11th Research Wednesdays session was an informational session on 3D Printing at Duke given by Chip Bobbert.  3D printing is a revolutionary technology that is changing the way we design products and raising the potential of what is possible. Duke University has become a leader among universities by offering the largest free and open 3D printing lab in the education industry.

  Spring service opportunity organized by the Davison Council service committee.

  Welcome to the new blog for news, tips, and insights related to grant applications. This blog is managed by the Duke School of Medicine’s Office of Research Development, but we welcome readers and contributors from across the University. With more than 9 years of experience, our office knows NIH’s research grant applications very well, particularly multi-component mechanisms such as P01, P30, P50, and U54. One of us is also familiar with applications to the Department of Defense and National Science Foundation, among others.

‘Population Health’ is the basis of a new department in the School of Medicine, a byword for a lot of new activity across campus , and on Tuesday the subject of a half-day symposium that attempted to bring all this energy together. For now, population health means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

In December, Duke transplant surgeons performed the state’s and region’s first organ transplant from a deceased HIV-positive donor to an HIV-positive recipient. This type of transplant had been illegal until just a few years ago, but the federal law was changed after clinical evidence demonstrated it was safe.

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