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Duke surgeons perform lung transplant (wide angle shot in the operating room)

December 20, 2019

Duke Health Ranks 8th Nationally in Organ Transplant Volume

In 2019, the Duke heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplant programs experienced unprecedented volume growth: more than 20% for most programs. With 521 total transplants performed in 2019, Duke Health now ranks 8th among U.S. transplant programs. 2019 Transplant Volume by U.S. Institution (through...Read more

December 19, 2019

Dr. Beasley Receives DCI Award for Poliovirus in Melanoma Research

Georgia Beasley, MD, MHS , Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology, has received a 2019 award from the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) for her pilot research project, “Oncolytic Poliovirus in Melanoma.” Using an oncolytic poliovirus has already been tested at Duke as a...Read more

December 13, 2019

Duke Transplant Center Funding Opportunity

The Duke Transplant Center (DTC) of the Duke University School of Medicine aims to promote cross-disciplinary clinical, translational, and basic research with the ultimate goal of optimizing transplant organ longevity and improving quality of life of transplant recipients. This is the inaugural annual call from the DTC for proposals for pilot and feasibility studies.Read more

December 11, 2019

Dr. Jennifer Plichta Appointed to the Editorial Board for Breast Cancer Research

Congratulations to Jennifer K. Plichta, MD , Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, on being appointed to the editorial board for Breast Cancer Research , one of the most widely read journals in breast cancer research and treatment. Dr. Plichta is a surgical oncologist and...Read more

Lola Fayanju, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology

December 4, 2019

Dr. Lola Fayanju Receives NIH Award for Health Disparities Research

Lola Fayanju, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, recently received a K08 award from the National Institutes of Health for her proposal "Using Modifiable Risk Factors to Predict Inferior Care and Survival After Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Novel Approach to Addressing...Read more

December 4, 2019

Dr. Charles Scales Jr. Appointed Director of Duke Surgical Center for Outcomes Research

We are delighted to announce that Charles Scales Jr., MD , Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Urology, has been appointed as new Director of the Duke Surgical Center for Outcomes Research (SCORES) . Dr. Scales received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Georgia Institute of...Read more

High magnification image of fluorescent intestinal stem cells. Each fluorescent color is used as a barcode to visualize human colon cancer causing mutations in mice.

December 2, 2019

New Technique Visually Depicts How Cancer Cells Grow and Spread in Colon Tissue

Even before cancer is detectable, glow-in-the-dark cells show mutations driving malignancy Duke Cancer Institute researchers have observed how stem cell mutations quietly arise and spread throughout a widening field of the colon until they eventually predominate and become a malignancy. Using an...Read more

Dr. Jacob Schroder and Dr. Carmelo Milano

December 2, 2019

Doctors at Duke University Hospital Perform First DCD Heart Transplant in U.S.

A heart transplant team at Duke University Hospital became the first in the U.S. to transplant an adult heart into a recipient through a process known as Donation after Circulatory Death, or DCD. Duke is one of five centers in the United States that has been approved to perform DCD heart...Read more

November 27, 2019

Dr. Rachel Greenup Appointed to Clinical and Health Services Research Committee

Dr. Rachel Greenup, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, has been appointed to serve on the Clinical and Health Services Research Committee for the Association of Academic Surgery. Her 2-year term will begin in the spring of 2020, following the Academic Surgical Congress...Read more

Faculty photos of Georgia Beasley and Andrew Peterson

November 14, 2019

Drs. Georgia Beasley and Andrew Peterson Inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society

Congratulations to Georgia Beasley, MD, MHS , Assistant Professor of Surgery, and Andrew Peterson, MD, MPH , Professor of Surgery, on being elected to the Duke University School of Medicine chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Nominees are selected based on scholastic achievement...Read more

November 11, 2019

Duke Abstracts Accepted at American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association Annual Meeting

The Duke Cleft and Craniofacial Center recently had ten abstracts accepted for podium presentations at the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association Annual Meeting to be held March 31–April 4, 2020. This number shatters any prior single year performance for the Duke team. The Cleft and...Read more

November 6, 2019

Cell Death Laboratory members present at AACR Cancer Health Disparity Conference

Members of Dr. Gayathri Devi’s Cell Death Laboratory in the Division of Surgical Sciences presented four studies at the 12th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, held September 20-23, 2019 at the Hilton San Francisco...Read more

Academy of Master Surgeon Educators Inductees

November 1, 2019

Allan D. Kirk, MD, PhD, and Ranjan Sudan, MD, Admitted Into American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Surgeon Educators™

Allan D. Kirk, MD, PhD , and Ranjan Sudan, MD , are among a group of 83 esteemed surgical educators inducted into membership in the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Academy of Master Surgeon Educators™. Dr. Kirk was inducted as a Member and Dr. Sudan as an Associate Member of this prestigious...Read more

Stock image of pill bottle with pills falling out

October 1, 2019

Duke Teams Earn NIH Funding as Part of National Effort to Combat Opioid Crisis

More than $24 million in funding is part of the Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) Initiative Research teams from Duke received more than $24 million in federal grants to address challenges related to pain and the opioid crisis, with more than $19 million awarded to investigators from the...Read more

Karl Neumann, donates kidney in nation's second HIV-positive living donor kidney transplant

September 19, 2019

Duke Performs First HOPE Act HIV+ Living Donor Kidney Transplant in N.C. and Region

A donor’s altruism leads to the nation’s second HIV-positive living donor kidney transplant For years as a transplant coordinator helping others navigate the organ transplantation process, Norfolk resident Karl Neumann was acutely aware of the shortage of donated organs. Yet he could not offer his...Read more

Hadiza Kazaure, MD, and Daniel Parker, MD

September 10, 2019

Duke Center for Geriatric Surgery Announces Scholars Awards

The Duke Center for Geriatric Surgery (DCGS) was established by the Department of Surgery to offer a collaborative platform to develop and integrate advances in perioperative care for older adults through clinical innovation, education and research. The Center funds 1-2 grants for researchers...Read more

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