CTSI Faculty Associate Director Kanecia Zimmerman, MD, PhD, MPH, who is Duke's principal investigator for the Clinical Trials Data Coordinating Center for long COVID research, shared Duke's progress in developing a vaccine that would guard against multiple strains of the coronavirus. She detailed her passion for community-engaged research and diverse clinical trials.
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Michael Pencina, PhD, director of CTSI’s Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Pillar, discussed the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence, as well as the promise that AI technologies hold to improve health care. He is Duke Health's first chief data scientist and directs Duke AI Health.
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Leonor Corsino, MD, MHS, co-director of CTSI’s Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI), discussed improving access to health care in underrepresented populations and detailed the uptick in Duke medical students who self-identify as Latino or Hispanic, as well as the increase in research underway at Duke related to the health of Latino and Hispanic people. She is associate dean for Student Affairs.
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Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, co-director of the CTSA Workforce Development Core in the CTSI, shared his research into the underpinnings of mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia, as well as his work to expand diversity in biomedical science. He is the A. Eugene and Marie Washington Presidential Distinguished Professor.
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Julius Wilder, MD, PhD, co-director of CTSI’s Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI), discussed how colon cancer disproportionately affects communities of color, the rising rate of colon cancer in young adults, and what Duke is doing to help turn around these trends. He is an assistant professor of medicine and sociology.
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Svati Shah, MD, MHS, director of the Center for Precision Health in the CTSI, detailed how the new OneDukeGen initiative will use genetics and advanced technologies to quickly translate scientific discovery into better clinical treatments. She is the Ursula Geller Distinguished Professor of Research in Cardiovascular Diseases.
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Brian Southwell, PhD, co-director of the Program on Medical Misinformation in the CTSI, shared his optimism that Duke and partners like RTI International can build systems to help patients and families navigate health misinformation. Southwell, who directs Science in the Public Sphere at RTI, and Dean Klotman also discussed a national forum on misinformation that CTSI co-developed.
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