Lucy Lettera understands firsthand the struggle of being overweight. “Being overweight comes with a myriad of medical, physical, and emotional problems,” said Lettera, of Rye Brook, New York. “For me, it was about my own self-esteem and wanting to improve my health.”

Mara L. Becker, MD, MSCE, Professor of Pediatrics, has been named Vice Dean for Faculty for the Duke University School of Medicine, effective July 15, 2022. Dr.

The potential end to the Constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. may impact decisions future Ob/Gyns make about their career choices.

Understanding intersecting cultural identities — and providing care that respects and affirms those identities — is at the heart of Tyson Pankey’s work as a clinician, educator, and researcher. Pankey joined the Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences faculty as an assistant professor in September 2021, after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he specialized in transgender and intersex health and family medicine residency education.

A Duke Cancer Institute researcher is a member of a group receiving the prestigious Cancer Grand Challenges Grant, providing $25 million over five years to investigate the origins of cancer. The nine-member, international research team includes Christopher Counter, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology and associate director of Basic Research in the Duke Cancer Institute

The Duke Physician Assistant (PA) Program was well represented at the American Academy of Physician Assistants’ (AAPA) 2022 conference, the first in-person conference since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Duc Huynh, a PhD student in the Department of Biochemistry, has received the Ruth K. Broad Foundation Fellowship for is plan to investigate glycobiology.

91 students made the transition from the classroom to their clinical experiences on Thursday, June 9, 2022, as members of the Duke Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2023 donned their white coats

For the past several years, Dr. Erickson has facilitated the Perry Initiative’s Outreach Program at Duke. This initiative provides a hands-on introduction to the field of Orthopaedic Surgery for women in medical school, engineering, and those still in high school.

Researchers have unmasked a component of the cell death process that could play a vital role in a better infection-fighting strategy.