News and Events

Duke Health leaders have selected ten high-potential innovation projects, including two from the Department of Pediatrics, to be implemented as part of the Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI)’s annual call for project ideas in the areas of novel strategies to improve value of care delivery, advance health equity, amplify digital solutions for care and monitoring, strengthen provider and staff experience and well-being and enhance patient engagement and experience.

Duke pediatric epileptologists are combining existing virtual and augmented reality technology to create a mixed reality experience to improve surgical accuracy and taking a new look at an established dietary therapy to help improve outcomes for children and adolescents with hard-to-control epilepsy.

New and competing renewal awards made to faculty in the Department of Pediatrics for the month of February 2021 are announced.

Andrew Landstrom, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics and cell biology, has been named director of the Duke Pediatric Research Scholars Program for Physician-Scientist Development (DPRS), effective April 1, 2021.

Duke medical students were among thousands across the United States who found out their residency matches on Friday, March 19, 2021. The tradition has been in place since 1952, and this year about 37,000 medical students nationally were matched with residencies.

Neeta Sethi, MD, is a pediatric cardiologist, who is an inpatient hospitalist also specializing in reading echocardiograms and performing transesophageal imaging in the cardiothoracic operative room. She talks to us about how she became interested in pediatric cardiology while volunteering in a rural hospital in India. She also discusses her current research project identifying health disparities in patients with palliated critical congenital heart disease and her passions outside of Duke.

Local law enforcement of immigration policy may affect preventable hospitalization rates for children, according to new research led by Penn State and Duke University investigators.

The parents of a child with symptoms characteristic of characteristic of Sturge Weber Syndrome seek insight and treatment from Duke Eye Center’s Sharon Freedman, MD, professor of ophthalmology and pediatrics division chief – a world renowned expert and foremost authority on childhood glaucoma.  

Today, North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper signed into law The Reopen Our Schools Act of 2021, which requires all public schools in the state to provide their students with in-person learning for grades K-5.

Ann M. Reed, MD, Samuel L. Katz Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, chair of the Department of Pediatrics, and physician-in-chief of Duke Children’s, recently announced that Michael Smith, MD, MS, has been named interim chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics, effective July 1, 2021.