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The REACH Equity Center launches in a program honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Disparities in health care and health outcomes are well documented, particularly for people of color. A new center at Duke, funded by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), is taking a unique approach to try to eliminate these disparities.

January 5, 2018 – Datavant and DCRI will work closely together in engaging biopharmaceutical partners and implementing innovative approaches to clinical trial design and interpretation, leveraging the power of their combined datasets. 

On January 1, Christopher Plowe began his tenure as director of the Duke Global Health institute (DGHI) and professor of medicine and global health. 

The inaugural Duke Physician-Scientist Symposium and inaugural Dr. Nancy C. Andrews Physician-Scientist Lectureship, held on January 4th at the J.B. Duke Hotel, brought together physician-scientists from across Duke University School of Medicine to celebrate the accomplishments of Duke researchers and to honor Dr. Nancy Andrews for her dedicated mentorship and support of physician-scientist development at Duke.

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  Adding irradiation before transplant improves long-term results and should change practice

Assessing risk and intervening before surgery leads to shorter hospital stays Compared to younger adults, older people have higher rates of complications from surgery. But many problems can be avoided by intervening with assessments and risk-reduction strategies before, during and after procedures.

I have been involved with the PCLT program ever since Dr. Sheline invited me to join the start up team about 7 years ago when the program was created. Having worked with Dr. Sheline previously, I knew under her leadership that there was a good chance that we would successfully launch the PCLT program after only four months of intense planning sessions and work, but I wanted to see if this could truly happen.  This was a huge accomplishment as curriculum innovation and change oftentimes take months to years to come to fruition.  

The Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (El Instituto de Clinica Efectividad y Sanitaria, IECS, www.iecs.org.ar) is a leading research organization in Argentina. Notably, in November of this year, its most recent Director General just became Minister of Health for the country! I was fortunate to receive a scholarship through the Fogarty International Center of the NIH to spend 11-months working in the Mother and Child Health Research Department at IECS. My research primarily focused on the epidemic of cesarean sections in Argentina.