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Charlene Wong is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Public Policy at Duke and the Executive Director of the North Carolina Integrated Care for Kids Model.

As a pediatrician, I’ve seen many children and families suffer from COVID-19 over the last 20 months.

The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) has designated the Duke Health Rare Disease Center as a NORD Rare Disease Center of Excellence.

The Duke University School of Medicine has been selected as one of 11 medical schools from across the United States and Canada to participate in the Anti-Racist Transformation in Medical Education (ART in Med Ed) project, a national collaborative to dismantle systemic racism and bias in academic medicine.

Mary Louise Markert, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics in the Division of Allergy and Immunology and professor of immunology recently announced her retirement effective October 15, 2021, following over four decades of service at Duke University.

November 4, 2021 recognizes Genetic Counselor Awareness Day, sponsored by the National Society of Genetic Counselors (nsgc.org).

Duke's MyChart is changing its name and will soon be known as My Duke Health.

The following faculty in the Department of Pediatrics received new and competing renewal awards during the months of February 2021 through September 2021. 

Sharon M. Castellino, MD, MSc, is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory School of Medicine and director of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Program at the Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

The coming COVID vaccine for children ages 5-11 is safe, effective and the best way for parents to protect their kids from the insidious disease, a Duke doctor who led a trial examining the vaccine’s effectiveness said Wednesday.