News and Events

Rasheed Gbadegesin, MD, MBBS, was recently elected into the Association of American Physicians (AAP).

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced the launch of the Division of Child and Family Well-Being to help achieve its vision of children who are healthy and who thrive in safe, stable and nurturing families, schools and communities.

As one of the first Black students to attend Duke University, Dr. Brenda Armstrong helped organize the Allen Building Takeover in 1969 before becoming the second Black woman in the United States to be a board-certified pediatric cardiologist.

Our Alumni Spotlight shines on Anita Zaidi, MBBS, SM, who has extensive experience as a physician, researcher, and innovator, as well as a track record of leading programs that have truly changed women’s lives.

The following is a select list of new and competing renewal awards that were made to faculty in the Department of Pediatrics for the months of November 2021 to December 2021.

Congratulations to Ashley Thrower, MD, a second-year resident in the combined Medicine-Pediatrics Residency program, who was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Dr. Brenda Armstrong Award for Service Towards the Advancement of Diversity and Inclusion at Duke.

The following are new and competing renewal awards made to faculty in the Department of Pediatrics through the month of December 2021.

The survival rate of extremely preterm infants born from 2013 through 2018 in a large network of U.S. research centers improved to 78.3%, compared to 76% for infants born in the network from 2008 to 2012, according to researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Centrally coordinated through the Office of Physician Scientist Development (OPSD) administration, Duke is home to four NIH R38 Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) grants (the maximum currently available, and more than any other institution).

Please join the Duke University Chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) for a week of inspirational events January 14 - 22 as we celebrate the life and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and all those who have fought for equality and social justice.