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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.

Once your baby is discharged from the hospital, sleep is important to ensure that you and baby are getting the rest you need to settle into your new routines. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has recommendations for infants 0-1 year of age pertaining to safe sleep principles, which were updated in July of 2022.

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.

Dozens of families — nearly 150 people altogether — gathered in Durham in August, united by a common thread: Pompe disease. The 11th annual Pompe Patient Meeting, hosted by the Duke University Pompe Disease Clinical and Research Team, has become a sort of homecoming and network of hope for these families so deeply affected by the advances Duke has made in helping children and adults with Pompe disease live longer, fuller lives.

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.