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One step along the path to PA school is to choose who you will ask to be a reference for your application. For some, this is one of the more daunting parts of the process, as you select the people you think will give you the most powerful recommendations and then actually ask them!

Andrew Landstrom, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics, is hoping to change that. He helped lead efforts with the American Heart Association (AHA) to develop an educational curriculum that addresses the educational needs of health care providers, including clinicians, researchers, and medical students within the cardiovascular field.

What excites you about this role at Duke? Duke, for me, is a chance to work in my community. I have lived in Durham for five years but for all that time, I have been working in Wake County. When I decided to leave teaching, I knew I still wanted to help students grow and that I wanted to do that in the same place I called home. The OTD program is the perfect space to fulfill both of these values.  Where did you earn your degree(s)?

The Sequencing and Genomic Technologies Core Facility will host a launch party for the new PacBio Revio long-read sequencer.  Agenda:

ADRC RFP for innovative neurodegeneration-related discovery research in Basic Brain Science The Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center is pleased to announce a call for proposals for high risk/high impact, basic, discovery science relevant to neurodegeneration. Priority will be given to faculty in the Duke University School of Medicine researching basic neurobiology that has a plausible link to understanding neurodegeneration, including (but not limited

Dr. Ed Hammond, Director of the Duke Center for Health Informatics, has a captivating conversation and provides his answer to the question here!

Ernesto Escobar, executive director of Duke’s new Master of Engineering in Game Design, Development & Innovation, attributes learning English to playing video games and forcing himself to figure out what was going on.

Associate Dean for Faculty Development Cary Ward, MD works with Duke SOM colleagues; Brenna Hughes, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine,  Jerome “Jeff” Federspiel, MD, PhD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine,&nbsp

The Office for Research Mentoring is offering a multi-session training opportunity adapted from the National Research Mentoring Network’s curriculum to guide both novice and experienced mentors and provide tools and resources to improve the mentor and mentee experience.

https://medschool.duke.edu/interdisciplinary-rehabilitation-research-se…