Alumni Making a Difference: Erich Huang, PhD’02, MD’03, HS’03-’08
Erich Huang, PhD’02, MD’03, HS’03-’08, is head of clinical informatics at Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences. He has been a pathfinder since transitioning in 2016 from clinical care to biomedical informatics and later directing Duke Forge, an initiative to build a data science culture and infrastructure focused on actionable health data science across Duke University. In 2020 he was selected as Duke Health’s Chief Data Officer for Quality. Now the head of clinical informatics at Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, his vision for the health care landscape remains centered on wielding artificial intelligence as a tool, not a replacement for the human touch.
Alumni Making a Difference: William Stead, AB’70, MD’74, HS’73-’77
William Stead, AB’70, MD’74, HS’73-’77, is the McKesson Foundation Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University and is one of the founders of the field of biomedical informatics. In the 1970s, first as a medical student and then while a nephrology fellow and member of the faculty at Duke, Stead worked with Ed Hammond, BSEE’57, PhD’67, director of the Duke Center for Health Informatics, and others to build The Medical Record, one of the first practical electronic medical record systems.
Veterans: The Foundation of the PA Profession
The Physician Assistant Program touches base with the foundation of the PA profession: Veterans.
Therapy Horses Provide Respite from Stress
The animal-assisted therapy group Stampede of Love brought two miniature horses to the Duke Medical Center Library to offer School of Medicine faculty, staff, and students the opportunity to relax, de-stress, and share some special moments and photo ops with the equine visitors.
Record Attendance at North Carolina American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting
The North Carolina American Society for Microbiology (NC-ASM) annual meeting, hosted by the Duke Microbiome Center, attracted more than 300 researchers from across the Southeast.
Mary E. Klotman's Friday Message & Conversation with Gary Faerber, MD
Mary Klotman, MD speaks with Gary Faerber, MD, about the newly elevated Department of Urology and how this organizational change enhances the national profile of Duke.
Pain Drives Dual Tobacco and Cannabis Use, Study Shows
Duke Psychiatry and Behavioral Health researchers delve into the interplay of pain and substance use.