Duke University Health System

  • Fulkerson promoted

    June 18th, 2008

    Chancellor Victor J. Dzau, M.D., announced today that William J. Fulkerson, Jr., M.D., will be promoted to the position of senior vice president, clinical affairs, for the Duke University Health…

  • Rittgers honored as Social Worker of the Year

    June 5th, 2008

    Wherever Shelia Rittgers works, she sees the resilience of the human spirit. In Durham, she sees it at her job of 10 years as a clinical social worker at the…

  • Emmett wins HHMI fellowship

    June 5th, 2008

    Susan Emmett, a second year medical student at Duke, is one of 65 medical students nationwide to receive the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Training Fellowship that will fund…

  • Jarvis among newest HHMI investigators

    June 5th, 2008

    Researcher Erich Jarvis, Ph.D., has been selected as one of 56 newest Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators, selected from over 1,000 applications. Through this program, the HHMI identifies highly…

  • Snyderman honored with IRI Medal

    June 5th, 2008

    For his leadership in transforming Duke University Medical Center into an internationally recognized leader of academic medicine and his role as a pioneer in the area of personalized health care,…

  • Soro Fellowships named

    April 7th, 2008

    Out of 700 applicants nationwide, four Duke University students have been selected for the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. The program supports graduate study by immigrants and…

  • Local student’s award-winning research started in a Duke lab

    April 7th, 2008

    A Durham student who this week won the country’s most celebrated high school science competition began her research on colon cancer in a laboratory at Duke University. In a gala…

  • Duke researcher awarded Hartwell Foundation Fellowship

    April 7th, 2008

    Duke researcher Terri N. Ellis, Ph.D., whose work is helping medical science understand how to stimulate the immune system against pediatric pneumonia and infections associated with cystic fibrosis, has been…

  • Duke and Durham VA receive Department of Defense award

    April 7th, 2008

    Researchers at Duke University and Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Centers have been selected as one of 10 collaborative investigative teams receiving Department of Defense grants as part of a nationwide…

  • Crystal award marks successful journey to Magnet

    April 7th, 2008

    In this photo, Duke Medicine’s chief nursing and patient care services officer Mary Ann Fuchs, R.N., unveils the Magnet Recognition Program crystal obelisk during a ceremony in Duke South on…