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promenade, terraced into the hillside to create a new, open walkway between Research Drive and Duke Medicine Circle. The heart of our campus will be easy to traverse from every direction, and Im certain that will bring us together in new ways. There is a lot happening as we settle into our new academic year and several exciting events planned for the fall. As always, the arrival of new students, residents and fellows reminds me of the tremendous breadth and depth of our school, and the remarkable contributions our academic community makes to science and health care.
With best wishes, Nancy
August 2012
Dear Colleagues: Its hard to miss the transformation happening at the center of our campus. Our new education building will be completed soon, and we are extremely proud that it will be named the Mary Duke Biddle Trent semans Center for health Education to honor a very dear
friend of our School and our University. We are grateful to The Duke Endowment for their foundational gift that enabled this project, and to the many, many donors who have already helped us get close to our fundraising goal. We expect to begin to occupy by December, and we will mark the formal opening of the building with a special event early next year. To make the best use of our new space, only offices directly related to education and student services will be in the Trent Semans Center. My office, and most of the on-campus medical school administrative offices, will remain in the Davison Hall. The building is only part of our transformation. The Trent Semans Center will look out onto a beautifully landscaped
Please mark your calendars and plan to attend these exciting events planned for October:
More information about these events, which are open to the entire community, will go out closer to the dates.
Medical student Maya White, Duke Med Class of 2014, is finishing her second year of the Primary Care Leadership Track.
pital settings, explains Barbara Sheline, M.D., M.P.H., assistant dean for primary care and the programs director. There are still a lot of unmet needs, but now they see the resources available and the greater possibilities. During the past year, second-year PCLT students worked in a free clinic in Durham, with a community psychiatrist, on an elementary school obesity project, and with a pediatric medical legal group. Our clinical year is flexible compared to a traditional hospital clerkship year, says Sheline. The flexibility allows students to stretch their wings as leaders who look
at a problem, look at the resources, and figure out how to mobilize. Its all part of leadership preparation, and it transforms the students into creative problem solvers. Future PCLT students will engage in Durham-based research projects but the potential also exists for students to spend the third year in communities across the country, or across the world. We make it possible for them to be successful, whether they stay here for their research year or conduct their research abroad, says Sheline.
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iain sanderson Returns to Duke as Chief Research and Academic information officer
Iain Sanderson, M.D., has joined DHTS and the School of Medicine as Chief Research and Academic Information Officer. Dr. Sanderson will oversee informatics as it relates to research, education and administration, and serve as the primary IT strategist for the School of Medicine. Dr. Sanderson spent 14 years at Duke as an associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, and four years as Associate Chief Information Officer for DUHS. He left in 2007 to become the Chief Medical Information Officer for Health Sciences South Carolina, where he led the effort to bring an integrated clinical and translational research infrastructure to the states research universities and health systems. He also rebuilt biomedical informatics into a cohesive and effective program at the Medical University of South Carolina for its successful Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). As Chief Research and Academic Information Officer, Dr. Sanderson will provide leadership in biomedical informatics, research computing, education and technology innovation to support the academic and administrative needs of our research community. He will also engage with the clinical research enterprise while supporting the Schools activities and infrastructure. His familiarity with the Duke environment, and his tremendous expertise in clinical research IT, will be particularly valuable as Duke strives to be a national leader in research and academic informatics.
Zebrafish gut at 5 days post fertilization expressing Rab11 (green) and stained for actin (red) Ashley Alvers, Bagnat Lab
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The Duke Light Microscopy Core Facility is funded by the Duke Cancer Institute, the Duke University School of Medicine and the Duke University Office of the Provost. For more information on its services, please visit: http://microscopy.duke.edu/
inMemoriam
Marcus Lee Johnson, Duke PA Class of 2013
Marcus Lee Johnson, Duke PA Class of 2013, died unexpectedly on July 19, 2012. Marcus was a native of Dalzell, SC, and Johnson a 2005 graduate of Morris College where he majored in biology and was the recipient of multiple scholarships and awards. To gain patient care experience prior to acceptance to the PA program, he had worked as a rehabilitation and medical technician. Immediately prior to his entry to the PA Program, he was a middle school science teacher at Hillcrest Middle School in Dalzell. Marcus goal was to work as a primary care PA in a rural underserved area in South Carolina. His kind and gentle presence will be greatly missed by all at Duke who knew him.
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