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The Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) will help establish a new nationwide center that will accelerate and expand the dissemination of the latest research on addiction and overdose to help communities devastated by the opioid crisis.

The first 1,000 days of life — the time spanning roughly between conception and a child’s second birthday — are the most rapid period of human development.

Kathleen Wurth Bartlett, MD, FAAP, professor of pediatrics, chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine, and associate program director of the Pediatrics Residency Program, has been named vice chair for faculty, effective November 1, 2022. 

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 August 2022.

Over the last 20 years, the portfolio of active industry and government research grants to a core group of pediatrics faculty working in the Duke Clinical Research Institute has grown from $5 million to $750 million.

Makenzie Beaman, a pediatric scientist in training in the Medical Science Training Program (MSTP), was selected for the best fellow platform presentation award at the 43rd Annual David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis on August 23.

A team at Duke Health has performed what is believed to be the world’s first partial heart transplant, with the living arteries and valves from a freshly donated heart fused onto a patient’s existing heart. The goal is to allow the valves to grow with the pediatric patient over time, increasing life expectancy. 

The Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development has been awarded a $12 million federal grant to develop artificial intelligence tools for detecting autism during infancy and identifying brain-based biomarkers of autism.

Aditi Korlimarla, MBBS, is a medical instructor in the Division of Medical Genetics, who oversees a multidisciplinary industry-sponsored study that focuses on the natural history and disease progression of children with Pompe disease.

The days of summer are quickly coming to a close. For those on a traditional school schedule, having a few months out of school may mean more time at the pool, summer camps, and lots of fun in the sun. But one potentially unwelcome aspect of summer vacation is an erratic and delayed sleep schedule.