L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, will serve as the contact principal investigator for Duke’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), effective March 1, 2015. Boulware replaces Robert Califf, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and vice chancellor for clinical research, and will work with CTSA co-principal investigators Jennifer, Li, MD, MHS, and James McNamara, MD. Califf will serve as deputy commissioner of the FDA. Boulware will continue to serve as division chief.
A general internist, Boulware received her MD from Duke and MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She studies interventions to improve patient care and clinical outcomes with chronic diseases such as chronic kidney disease and hypertension and is particularly interested in identifying ways to eliminate ethnic and racial disparities in these diseases.
