The School of Medicine celebrates Black History Month by honoring the individuals that made lasting contributions in the past and present to our institutional excellence.

A professor of family medicine, pediatrics, and psychiatry at the Duke University School of Medicine, he is a physician dedicated to public service who has fostered innovative ventures and transformed patient care programs.

Signs of autism can hide in plain sight, but a Duke University School of Medicine study shows machine learning may help spot them. 

Developmental psychologist Keisha Leanne Bentley-Edwards, PhD, MA, is an associate professor in the division of General Internal Medicine, the Associate Director of Research and the Director of the Health Equity Working Group for Duke’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.

Craig Albanese, M.D., an accomplished health care leader and distinguished academic pediatric surgeon, has been named chief executive officer of Duke University Health System (DUHS).

Duke experts discuss the potential effects of a bill in the North Carolina state legislature that would restrict gender-affirming care for minors.

In celebration of Black History Month, Dean Klotman interviews Kevin Thomas, MD, the School of Medicine's Vice Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, about the importance of the month and about Duke's role in combating racism.

Janis Curtis, MSPH, MA, associate director of the Duke Clinical Data Research Networks (CDRN) Program, has been named a 2023 Changemaker in Health for her courage, curiosity, and determination to help transform the global health ecosystem through the best use of information technology.

Andrea Deyrup, MD, PhD, a professor in the Department of Pathology, challenges a long history of race-based medicine that she says is often based on questionable assumptions and flawed science yet deeply embedded in clinical decision-making.

Learn the stories of places and things named in honor of Black students, faculty and staff