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The following are new and competing renewal awards made to faculty in the Department of Pediatrics for the months of November 2022 through January 2023. Congratulations to these faculty on the

An early career Department of Pediatrics investigator is being recognized with a prestigious award from the American Society of Clinical Investigators (ASCI).

Duke University School of Medicine was awarded more than $527 million in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2022, ranking ninth nationally among academic medical centers.

We are pleased to announce that the Duke Department of Pediatrics has been ranked second nationally on the list of Blue Ridge NIH research grant funding for pediatrics clinical science departments.

The following are new and competing renewal awards made to faculty in the Department of Pediatrics through the month of January 2023.  Please extend your congratulations to the following individuals.

Daniel Kelly Benjamin, Jr, MD, PhD, MPH, was recently elected into the Association of American Physicians (AAP). Benjamin is the Kiser-Arena Distinguished Professor, a professor of pediatrics in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Quantitative Sciences, and a member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

Congratulations to Sophie Shaikh, MD, MPH, MSc, who recently received the Physician Leadership Award at Duke Regional Hospital (DRH). Dr.

Growing research has shown that intensive interventions are needed, scientists say. Here is why their advice is changing.

Andrew Landstrom, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics, is using genome sequencing to better understand sudden unexplained death in the young (SUDY). SUDY is defined as a sudden death in a seemingly healthy individual under the age of 40.

The following is a list of new and competing renewal awards that were made to faculty in the Department of Pediatrics for the month of December 2022.