Inside Duke Medicine
Vinsel explains Inside Online
October 7th, 2008Duke Raleigh CEO, Doug Vinsel welcomes you to Inside Online
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Dean Andrews on leadership
October 7th, 2008Newsweek Magazine’s annual Women & Leadership issue features Duke’s own Nancy Andrews, M.D., Ph.D., dean of the School of Medicine. Read her leadership essay, Climbing the Academic Ladder. (Graphic: Duke…
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Bereavement Council seeks new members
October 7th, 2008Are you interested in bereavement issues? Duke Hospital’s Bereavement Advisory Council (BAC) is seeking new members. BAC is a multidisciplinary committee that works closely with the Bereavement Services coordinator on…
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An international approach
October 7th, 2008“There are certain rights people have, and one is the right to good health, no matter where you live,” said Michael Merson, M.D., director of the Duke Global Health Institute,…
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DUH employee gives his mom a kidney
October 7th, 2008Maurice Channer, DUH employee, donated one of his kidneys to his mother. “It was just something I felt like I had to do,” Channer said in an interview with ABC…
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Mum’s the Word
October 7th, 2008The 14th annual “Mum’s the Word” campaign sponsored by the Health Information Management Department is raising awareness about maintaining patient confidentiality. Above, from left to right, Anita George, Hannah Jackson…
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DUSON grant aims to ease nursing shortage
October 6th, 2008The Duke University School of Nursing is among the first institutions in the nation to receive funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through the RWJF New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program.…
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Coping with COPD’s emotional toll
October 6th, 2008At 49 years old, William Lambeth, M.D., saw his life as a busy OB/GYN come to a sudden halt. He had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A new Duke Medicine…
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Greeson wins NIH career development award
October 6th, 2008Duke Integrative Medicine’s Jeff Greeson, Ph.D., clinical health psychologist and postdoctoral research fellow and clinical associate in medical psychiatry, has won a five-year National Institutes of Health career development award from NIH’s National Center for Complementary…
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DUH nurses join ‘Great 100’
October 6th, 2008Four Duke University Hospital nurses have been named to the North Carolina “Great 100.” They are Sherry Nelles, Nancy Payne, Valeria Royster, and Yvonne Spurney. In all, Duke University Health System had seven…