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With great pleasure, we announce that Lisa VanHoose, PT, PhD, MPH, FAPTA, Professor of Physical Therapy and Director of the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at the University of Louisiana, Monroe, will be the 2025 Eleanor Branch Lecture Speaker.

Colin Duckett, PhD, will serve as executive vice dean for basic and preclinical science, and Geeta Swamy, MD, will serve as executive vice dean for clinical sciences and research administration.

After living in the U.S. for nearly a decade, I find myself reflecting on various experiences that have strengthened my Latina identity. Upon arrival, I struggled to connect with others due to unfamiliar contextual factors, including a new language, diverse cultures, and a completely different environment.

The city of Durham, along with many from the Duke Health community, came together to celebrate inclusion, community, family, pride, and advocacy at Pride: Durham, NC 2024.

Have you ever considered how your identity influences your participation in and experience of your occupations? 

As part of Duke’s National Hispanic Heritage Month celebration, we asked our Occupational Therapy Doctorate (OTD) students who identify as Hispanic/Latinx about their background and what they're most proud of. Their answers underscore our pride in the OTD program—one that is rich with diverse individuals and perspectives that come together to create a unique learning community. 

Bestselling author Jessica Lahey spoke to a group of students, staff and faculty interested in wellbeing on September 26, 2024, toward the end of National Suicide Prevention Month.  Espousing a “deep disdain for euphemisms,” Lahey spent an hour sharing her own personal experiences – ranging from growing up in the secrecy of a family afflicted by disordered alcohol use to confronting her own alcohol use disorder to challenging implicit and explicit consider

OTD 604, Formation for Service IV, is the fourth installment in a series of courses in which Duke Occupational Therapy Doctorate (OTD) students explore pathways to professional development as colleagues, community members, and change-makers.

As a leader with the employee resource group, ¡DALHE!, Dalia Antunez is helping to build community and expand professional networks for Duke’s Hispanic/Latiné employees and allies.

Duke University, in collaboration with the Veterans Health Administration (VA), has received one of six awards from a new $27 million initiative from the National Institutes of Health to establish a genomics-enabled Learning Health System (G-LHS) network