Nicole Miller thought medical school was going to be all books and studying, but in her third year at Duke University School of Medicine she also does clinical work, research and community work, and she even finds time to dance.

Monique Starks, MD, associate professor at medicine, is leading the nation's first clinical trial of an innovative approach to saving more people who suffer cardiac arrest by delivering automated external defibrillators (AEDs) by drone. Drones carrying AEDs are being dispatched during real 911 calls in Forsyth County, North Carolina, to see if drones can deliver AEDs to patients faster than traditional emergency services.

Lynette Staplefoote-Boynton, MD, MPH, a fifth-year internal medicine-psychiatry resident, has developed a training curriculum to better equip primary care and psychiatry trainees at Duke and beyond to counsel their patients on issues of diet and access to healthy food.

Fourteen faculty with primary appointments in the School of Medicine, along with four others from Duke-NUS, are among 31 Duke scholars in the top 1% of researchers in their fields for publication citations.

This Veterans Day, Duke Orthopaedics and the Doctor of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Doctorate programs proudly recognize the extraordinary contributions of our veterans—current residents and students—who have served our country and now dedicate themselves to improving the lives of future patients.

Inspired by his father’s health challenges, master’s student Ben Ncube is leveraging Duke’s Population Health Sciences Program to reimagine what’s possible in global men’s health policy.

After years reconstructing the faces of injured service members, Air Force veteran David Powers, MD, brings that same precision and compassion to patients recovering from gunshots, accidents, and cancer.

Rob Farris, a Doctor of Physical Therapy student and U.S. Navy veteran, reflects on service, purpose, and life beyond the uniform

Created in memory of Bobby Menges by his parents, Liz and Peter, the I’m Not Done Yet Foundation has surpassed $1 million in gifts to Duke Health and transformed how the Duke Cancer Institute supports young people with cancer.

Dawn Elizabeth Bowles, PhD, assistant professor in surgery, is collaborating with NASA to explore how to mitigate the harmful effects of space radiation on astronauts' health.