A Conversation with Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, the A. Eugene and Marie Washington Presidential Distinguished Professor, about his research into the underpinnings of mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia.

Duke University School of Medicine’s Black Employee Resource Group, ME², held its second annual Juneteenth celebration on June 15. ME² stands for Motivate, Mentor, Educate, & Empower.

School of Medicine Dean Mary E. Klotman and School of Nursing Dean Vincent Guilamo-Ramos honored the 2023 cohort of Distinguished Emeriti Faculty emeriti.

Presidential Distinguished Chairs are a new class of endowed professorships, created to maximize the university’s ability to recruit and retain exceptional faculty in a wide range of disciplines, including those aligned with the Duke Science and Technology (DST) initiative.

A relatively new method of heart transplantation, which allows for the use of hearts donated after circulatory death (DCD), could expand the pool of available donor hearts by a projected 30%.

Launched as a Duke Advanced Practice Provider Leadership Institute (APPLI) project, the lupus care model involves a patient care team that addresses patients’ medical and psychological needs to help improve their health.

With over 301 million views, popular TikTok videos related to endometriosis focus on patient experiences involving chronic pain and infertility, specifically in-vitro fertilization.

Recently developed technologies that maintain donor organs in a functioning state, perfusing them with warm nutrient- and oxygen-rich blood, have dramatically expanded the length of time organs can be kept viable and thus the distance they can be transported. These improvements make more transplants possible — a critical advance in a field where more than 100,000 people are on transplant waiting lists in the U.S.

By any reckoning, Duke is one of the top organ transplant centers in the world, a leader in patient care and outcomes, innovative research, and training. Duke ranks among the top five transplant centers by volume, with some of the shortest average wait times and best survival rates in the U.S. Duke researchers are pushing the frontiers of the possible, not only in the operating room but also in tackling issues of equity and social factors that play an outsized role in transplant access and outcomes.

Kevin P. Weinfurt, PhD, has been named interim chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences, effective July 17, 2023.