Pediatric heart surgeon Joseph Turek, MD, PhD, loves the technical challenges of operating on hearts the size of strawberries, but he also wants to have an impact beyond the individual babies and families he helps at Duke. Turek wants to change the field of pediatric cardiac surgery.

A Duke University School of Medicine study challenges assumptions about the role of weight loss in knee replacement surgery.

Black people are more likely than other groups to get the autoimmune disease lupus, and they are also less likely to take medications consistently. Kai Sun, MD, is having success in reducing those disparities through improved patient-doctor communication.

Dean Emeritus Nancy Andrews, MD, gave the Daubechies Lecture, providing a historical and personal perspective on how women’s opportunities and challenges have evolved over the past half century, how women continue to face inequities today, and how we can work toward a better future.

A $1.5 million legacy gift from an anonymous family will help support Duke Heart transplant patients.

In a novel intervention developed by Nancy Zucker, PhD, children with functional abdominal pain are introduced to a fun and relatable cast of characters and trained to become “Feeling and Body Investigators” (FBI) who listen carefully to their bodies to learn why their belly might be hurting and how to manage their symptoms.

As Duke University prepared to celebrate its centennial, and Duke Cancer Institute marked its 50-year anniversary, two Duke cancer physicians and

Rockefeller Foundation President Rajiv Shah delivered the Victor J. Dzau Distinguished Lecture in Public Health, calling on leaders to think bigger to address global threats like climate change.

Duke Human Vaccine Institute scientists are targeting a fast-moving protein that could hold the key to developing an effective HIV vaccine.

Wilburt C. Davison – Dave to his friends – served as the founding dean of the medical school for its first 30 years, and was chair of Pediatrics from 1927 to 1954.