Duke University Medical Center Library Room to be Renamed

Duke University Medical Center Library’s Trent Room is being renamed the Richmond House Room this month.

TBJ unveils 10 Durham Health Care Heroes Awards finalists

The Triangle Business Journal has unveiled 10 Durham Health Care Heroes Awards finalists.  The finalists include Wanda Bride at  Duke University Hospital, Duke Heart Center; Misty Guerrero at Durham Regional Hospital; Mary Lawrence at Cornucopia Cancer Support Center; Mary Jane Moseley, Cheryl Thaxton, and Stephanie Niemchak at Duke University Hospital; Leanne Richbourg at Duke University Medical Center; Jane Rigsbee at James E. Davis Ambulatory Surgery Center, Duke; Dr. Michael Rosenberg, at Health Decisions and Walter Lee Williford at Duke University Health System.

Duke Medicine Names Chair of Orthopedic Surgery

Benjamin Alman, chair of orthopedics at the University of Toronto, will become chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Duke University Medical Center in June. David Attarian will serve as interim chair of the department until June

Duke Researchers Use Genome Technology for Earlier, Accurate Diagnoses

Duke researchers are looking to genomic technologies – not the isolation of bacteria or viruses – to quickly detect and diagnose infectious diseases such as the flu and staph. Two studies appearing online Jan. 9, 2013, both in the journal PLOS ONE, show how a pattern of genomic information among infected individuals can be used to accurately pinpoint the cause of infection.

Duke Cancer Center Will Open to Patients on Feb. 27

The new Duke Cancer Center at Duke University Medical Center will open to patients on Monday, February 27 following an open house on Wednesday, February 22. The $230-million facility will consolidate all outpatient oncology services under one roof while promoting multidisciplinary communication through the Duke Cancer Institute's mission of integrated cancer treatment and clinical research.

"Voice of Cameron Indoor Stadium" Passes Away at Age 78

Duke men's basketball public address announcer and the "Voice of Cameron Indoor Stadium" for 40 years, Art Chandler has passed away at the age of 78. Chandler announced his first gave in 1970 and retired from the position at the close of the 2009-10 season. In his four decades at the scorers table, Chandler saw four national championship teams, 12 ACC Tournament champs and a plethora of All-Americas. Arthur C. Chandler Jr., MD, was also a longtime Duke medicine faculty member.

Eight Duke Faculty Elected to American Association for the Advancement of Science

Five scientists from Duke University Medical Center and three from Duke University have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They are recognized for scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The AAAS fellows are:

Richard Brennan, Ph.D., chair of the Duke Department of Biochemistry; Bryan Cullen, Ph.D., professor of molecular genetics and microbiology; Mariano Garcia-Blanco, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and professor of molecular genetics and microbiology; Sue Jinks-Robertson, Ph.D., professor of molecular genetics and microbiology; Donald McDonnell, Ph.D., Glaxo-Wellcome Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and chair of the Duke Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology; Ingrid Daubechies, Ph.D., James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics; Xinnian Dong, Ph.D., professor of biology, for her research on the interactions of plants and microbes; and Dan Kiehart, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biology.

Duke AIDS Researchers Awarded $37.2 Million Gates Foundation Grant

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded three grants totaling $37.2 million to Duke University Medical Center researchers for HIV projects in collaboration with the AIDS Vaccine Discovery program.

Perlman Named Executive Director of Duke Integrative Medicine

Adam Perlman has been named executive director of Duke Integrative Medicine. Perlman was previously the executive director of the Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

American Cancer Society Honors Duke Nurse Ellen Parks

Ellen F. Parks, R.N., O.C.N., C.N.I.V., a nurse clinician at Duke University Medical Center, was one of 11 outstanding cancer care providers to receive the 2011 American Cancer Society (ACS) Lane Adams Quality of Life Award.

Duke's Syed Zafar Awarded American Cancer Society Grant

The American Cancer Society has awarded Syed Zafar, MD of Duke University Medical Center, $583,000 to study evidence-based supportive care in advanced cancer clinical trials.

Read more: The Herald-Sun - 3 from UNC 1 from Duke get Cancer Society grants