Prentiss Harrison was the first African American physician assistant in the country. Learn more about him and other pioneering graduates of the Duke Physician Assistant Program, which was the first such program in the country.

On May 4, the Duke Occupational Therapy Doctorate (OTD) Program honored its inaugural graduating class of 36 students at a morning commencement ceremony at the Duke University Chapel.

Experimental vaccine targets portions of the flu virus that don’t change

Two School of Medicine faculty were among five Duke faculty members elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on April 30 in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements i

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Cathy Lefebvre, a program coordinator in the Division of Child and Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry, supports the psychiatry clerkship program for medical students and the Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds series. She's worked in the department for 28 years, with a total of 31 years of service at the School of Medicine to date.

Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD and Patrick Tan, MD, PhD were honored with election to the Association of American Physicians (AAP) for 2024.  

The unique circumstances arising from the COVID-19 pandemic altered a long-held convention that doctors provide care regardless of personal risk.

Tammara Watts, MD, PhD, is the associate director of the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Duke Cancer Institute. She is charged with strategic planning and implementation of the DCI’s Plan to Enhance Diversity (PED).