CTSI News

The Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is collaborating with Duke Emergency Medicine on a public health surveillance project dubbed Preventing Emerging Infections Through Vaccine Effectiveness Testing, or PREVENT II. Anyone who works at a Duke Health location and has recently been tested for COVID-19, whether positive or negative for infection, may be eligible to participate.

Members from Bass Connections teams led by Duke National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) scholars and faculty leaders recently presented their research findings as part of the Duke-Margolis Seminar in Health Policy & Management.

Duke University has expanded the upcoming Neurosciences Career Exploration Day to all Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in North Carolina.

Keisha Bentley-Edwards, PhD, co-director of Duke CTSI’s Integrating Special Populations and Equity in Research cores, presented her research in racial health disparities as part of the Duke School of Medicine’s Dean’s Distinguished Research Series.

As part of the ongoing partnership with Duke University and North Carolina Central University, Duke will host Neurosciences Career Exploration Day for NCCU students, a new event co-sponsored by the Duke-NCCU Bridge Office.

Rowena Dolor, MD, MHS, co-authored a recent Journal of the American Medical Association publication about a new tool that shows promise in helping primary care physicians identify adults with undiagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Three Duke National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) fellows — Jeylan Close, MD; Gabriela Plasencia, MD, MAS; and Carri Polick, PhD, RN — have received Bass Connections awards for their research projects.

The Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) and the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) together have launched the Office of Evaluation and Applied Research Partnership.

In 2020, Duke CTSI joined the Empowering the Participant Voice Research Participant Survey program. The project aims to develop tools and infrastructure to streamline the collection of research participant feedback and disseminate these tools across the REDCap user community and CTSA Consortium hubs.

Part of the 2019-2021 inaugural cohort of Duke’s National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) and now a pediatrician and epidemiologist at Duke, Rushina Cholera, MD, PhD, not only excelled in rigorous, mentored training but also became part of the Duke family, continuing the Duke CTSI legacy of nurturing health equity change agents.