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Duke faculty members Gary Maslow, MD, who is both a child psychiatrist and a pediatrician, and Nicole Heilbron, PhD, who is a child psychologist, serve as principal investigators of NC-PAL, or the North Carolina Psychiatric Access Line.

November is recognized as National Native American Heritage Month. Let us take a moment of gratitude to honor the many ways Native Americans have contributed to and uplifted our country and communities.

The following are new and competing renewal awards made to faculty in the Department of Pediatrics for the months of February 2022 through September 2022. Congratulations to these faculty on their awards and best wishes to them in their investigative work.

Samuel L. Katz, MD, died on Monday, October 31, 2022. Dr. Katz was a world-renowned virologist, pediatrician, and chair emeritus and Wilburt C. Davison Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine. He was an honors graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School.

Jennifer Rothman, MD, was recently named Medical Director of the Children’s Clinical Research Unit (CCRU) in the Department of Pediatrics, effective January 15, 2023.

Kris Michael Mahadeo, MD, MPH, has been named chief of the Division of Transplant and Cellular Therapy in the Duke Department of Pediatrics, effective January 9, 2023

In conjunction with divisional program directors, Cherrita McCoy shares in the implementation and compliance of all aspects of the management and

He didn’t always have an awareness of it or a word for it, but Christopher Lunsford, MD, was affected by ableism throughout his life. It affected how he coped with the challenges that came with being hard of hearing since birth and having a speech impediment.

The following are new and competing renewal awards made to faculty in the Department of Pediatrics through the month of September 2022.

As Cynthia Toth, MD, prepares to "dive" inside the eye, she practices a relaxed mind. "Slow breath, focus, concentrate," she tells herself. In 30 years as a retinal surgeon, she has trained to make her left hand as proficient as her right, so she can smoothly reach the part of the retina she needs to.