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We are delighted to announce that Sarah Jean Barton, ThD, MS, OTR/L, BCP, has been appointed Duke’s Occupational Therapy Doctorate (OTD) program director.

A Duke Health research team now might have found a way to turn back time and restore the liver.

Congratulations to the 2024 Duke Clinical Leadership Program (DCLP) participants who graduated on 6/18/24!

Lawrence David, PhD, and Melanie Thomas, MD, have been named Fulbright Scholars for the 2024-2025 academic year. The Fulbright Scholars Program awards fellowships to faculty, administrators, and other professionals to teach, research, and conduct professional projects for up to one year in more than 135 different countries.

Duke Physician Assistant (PA) Program faculty, students, and alumni attended the 2024 American Academy of PA (AAPA) conference in Houston, Texas, from May 18 to 22, despite severe storms that tore through the metro area earlier that week. 

After winning their local competition in May, the Duke Physician Assistant Program point-of-care ultrasound teams came home with another trophy from the 2024 American Academy of PAs (AAPA) conference in Houston, Texas.

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new technique to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B.

Called Up to the Big Leagues My journey to the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) House of Delegates started last year, when I was elected to our PA program student government. I served as one of Duke’s representatives for the AAPA Student Academy with my classmate Chris Marshall. The Assembly of Representatives (AOR) mimics AAPA’s House of Delegates (HOD) and introduces student leaders to our profession’s governing structure.

Jesse Herche Neurobiology Prof Jennifer Groh, Ph.D. 6/3/2024 Characterizing Correlates of Eye-Movement Related Eardrum Oscillations in Human Sound Perception and the Macaque