CTSI News

Students and recent graduates from North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and other historically Black colleges and universities attended the daylong event at the JB Duke Hotel. Attendees gave the event high marks — 87% said they were now more likely to consider a career in neuroscience, and 93% said they would recommend the event to their colleagues.

Carri Polick, PhD, RN, postdoctoral fellow and VA scholar in the Duke National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP), published a research paper in Brain and Behavior based on her research on multiple sclerosis (MS).

Mary E. Klotman, MD, dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, announced today that Susanna Naggie, MD, MHS, has been named director of the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), effective immediately.

Devon Noonan, PhD, MPH, co-director of the Duke site of the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP), received the 2023 Mid-Career Scientist Award from the Duke School of Nursing.

Svati H. Shah, MD, MHS, director of CTSI's research site at Duke Kannapolis, has been awarded a Distinguished Professorship.

Ten community-based organizations have been selected as grant recipients for this year’s Dean’s COVID-19 Community Education and Outreach to Advance Health Equity program.

The Social, Environmental, and Equity Drivers (SEED) of Health Atlas is a publicly available platform and tool for researchers and community members to learn more about SDOH in Durham and surrounding counties, access local data, and promote research in health disparities and equity.

Kimberly Johnson, MD, director of the Duke CTSA KL2 Program, presented her research on equity in serious illness care for African Americans during the final installment of Duke School of Medicine’s Dean’s Distinguished Research Series.

Duke National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) participants Kamal Golla, MD, MPH, and Melissa Harris-Gersten, PhD, RN, are finalists for the 2023 Bass Connections Leadership Award for their research project, “Financial Burden in Patients with Health Disparities.”

A new group is forming for those who work in evaluation and evaluation-aligned research, hosted by the Office of Evaluation and Applied Research Partnership at Duke University. The office is a collaboration with Duke CTSI and the Duke Social Science Research Institute.