President Richard H. Brodhead on Wednesday honored four staff members with the Presidential Award for outstanding service in 2011. Among them are James Hildebrand, medical technologist and supervisor at the Duke Allergy Lab, and Cynthia A. Sherwood, program coordinator for education at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. The award is one of the highest honors given to …
Duke Medicine officials held a ceremonial ground-breaking April 20 for a new, state-of-the-art Duke Eye Center building that will add much-needed clinical examination space and enhance the patient experience. “This ceremony celebrates the team effort that has turned our dream of building a new Eye Center clinical facility into a reality,” said Victor J. Dzau, …
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Stringing the pieces together By Stephanie J Parken, MS, OTR/LChildren often dream of playing a musical instrument and six-year-old Cecee is no different. But Cecee’s diagnosis of Dwarfism presents multiple challenges to realizing this dream. With an infectious personality and wide smile, Cecee has discovered how to manage everyday life with minimal adaptations. From being …
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Running the Boston Marathon is a crowning achievement for many road racers, but Tom O’Donnell of Apex felt especially elated earlier this month when he lined up among the other 22,000 athletes for the prestigious event.