Watch Mary E. Klotman, MD's robust conversation with Damon Tweedy about centering mental health in medicine. youtube.com/watch?v=jo0mxB…

“... when you see a patient in your clinic, it's not about one medication or one person and how they match. It's like this person and all the things in their life that influence a chronic disease that they have to manage every day.'
– @DukeMedicine's Dr. Leonor Corsino

Duke Life Flight’s helicopters and ambulances, along with the specialized medical staff from Duke University Hospital, has provided rapid life-saving care to critical patients since 1985.
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More than 210,000 people in NC have #Alzheimer 's disease, and the number is growing. The NC Registry for Brain Health (ncbrainhealth.org) aims to help relieve the burden through education, research opportunities, and helping recruit study volunteers.
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ASCI member Paul Rosenberg Duke University School of Medicine in Journal of Clinical Investigation:
The D84G mutation in STIM1 causes nuclear envelope dysfunction and myopathy in mice: buff.ly/4cS3tdN

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Regardless of income or education, people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods show early signs of #CognitiveDecline , according to a new study out of the lab of Drs. Avshalom Caspi & Terrie Moffitt of Duke Psychology & Neuroscience & Duke Psychiatry.
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Last installment of BUILD-U for the year! Thanks to all the professionals from across Duke University that took the time to help Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Graduate School students learn essential soft skills!

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Centennial Spotlight: Robert Califf
An internationally recognized expert in cardiovascular medicine, health outcomes research, health care quality, and clinical research, Duke alum Dr. Robert Califf now heads the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
#Duke100
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Scenes from today's solar eclipse outside Trent Semans Center for Health Education. Duke Health Duke University

A new mathematical model for Alzheimer’s disease, developed by #DukeMed and Penn State University, incorporates an individual’s own biological markers to predict their disease progression.
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The 2nd annual MaryAnn Black Distinguished Health Equity Symposium honors the late MaryAnn Black, MSW, LCSW, a clinical social worker who served the Duke and Durham community for 30 years.
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Several essential cancer medicines are facing shortages
... including three commonly-used chemotherapy drugs. Dr. Angeles Alvarez Secord (Angeles Secord) weighs in.
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Centennial Spotlight: Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans
'A principal link in the life of this university.” That is how former Duke University President Broadhead described Trent Semans, great-granddaughter of Washington Duke, for whom the university is named.
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Padma Gulur, MD, and team developed a simple two-question survey that can help identify who is at risk of poor pain outcomes and could help steer patients to early interventions while also reducing the potential for opioid overuse.
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Dr. Allan D. Kirk, Chair of #DukeSurgery , has been awarded the 2024 ASA Flance-Karl Award for his contributions made to basic laboratory research and clinical surgery application.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Kirk on this prestigious honor!

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#Review by ASCI member Nicole Calakos PhD MD Duke University School of Medicine in Journal of Clinical Investigation: The integrated stress response pathway and neuromodulator signaling in the brain: lessons learned from dystonia: buff.ly/43EeLy3

Duke Ob/Gyn will welcome reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist Sarah Moustafa, MD, in August 2024.
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In his new book, 'Facing the Unseen,' Dr. Damon Tweedy of Duke Psychiatry & Durham VA Health Care System explores how medical culture has historically separated physical & mental health & some ways we can address this false dichotomy. ⤵️
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🎂🥳🍾🎉Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Jordt lab Duke Anesthesiology Duke University School of Medicine Duke University. BIG THANKS to all lab members, collaborators, students, colleagues, admins, staff and students. What a fantastic journey, and so much more to explore ! 🎂🥳🍾🎉