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Highlights Week of September 15th 2019

Highlights of the week:

Douglas Receives ASNC 2019 Distinguished Career Award

We are very pleased to announce that the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology named Pamela S. Douglas as the 2019 recipient of their Distinguished Career Achievement Award! The award was presented at the Annual Scientific Session of the ASNC, held this weekend at the Chicago Marriott Magnificent Mile Hotel in Chicago. Well deserved! Go #WIC!

 

CVRC Grand Opening

The Duke Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC) celebrated their recently renovated space in the Carl Building with a grand opening celebration on Friday evening. Speakers included Victor Dzau, Robert Lefkowitz, Howard Rockman, Manesh Patel and Maria Price Rapoza. The state of the art space is now large enough to bring the majority of our basic science investigators into closer proximity, and offer greater collaboration among lab members. Thanks to the continued leadership of Howard Rockman and Maria Rapoza in helping bring this vision to fruition.  This space will provide the environment that our faculty and research teams need to make the critical insights needed in cardiovascular medicine.  The space looks great and if you haven’t seen it, you should stop by to check it out. First floor, Carl building.

 

Laura Blue Celebrates 40 years with Duke!

September 10th marked a milestone for our very own Laura Blue! She has been with Duke for 40 years. Congratulations, Laura! Your compassion and skill have benefitted not only thousands of our Duke Heart patients, but all of your colleagues as well.

 

Press Ganey Award 2F/2G

Congratulations to the 2F/2G team! Clinic 2F/2G won Press Ganey’s 2019 Pinnacle of Excellence award for Medical Practice/CGCAHPS. The award recognizes practices with sustained extraordinary performance (three consecutive years May 2016- April 2019) in “Likelihood to Recommend,” “Overall Rating,” and “Teamwork.” This is a highly competitive award with only four winners in this category.

Way to go, everyone!

 

Rasesh Desai Joins Anesthesiology; CTOR, CTICU Team

Please join us in welcoming Rasesh Desai, MD, to the Duke Heart team – he is the newest faculty member in Duke’s Department of Anesthesiology with specialized training in cardiothoracic care. Rasesh obtained his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina; completed residency at Vanderbilt; an adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia fellowship training at Cleveland Clinic, and Critical Care Medicine fellowship training at Vanderbilt.

 

He will start in the CTOR next week, and in the CTICU in October. Please welcome him when you see him!

 

‘Hitting With Heart’ Fundraiser Held

Our 5th Annual Hitting with Heart softball tournament to benefit the American Heart Association’s Triangle Heart Walk was held last weekend. The one-day, co-ed tournament included 12 teams from throughout DUHS including two teams from 7 West/DMP, 3100, 3300, 7 East/DMP, 7700, Duke Birthing Center, Vascular Interventional Radiology, Clinical Engineering, DHTS, Perfusion, and Respiratory Care Services. Congratulations to the winning team: DHTS! The tournament generated $2775, but the teams are continuing to collect donations up until the Heart Walk next Sunday.

 

Way to go! Many thanks to all who contributed to planning this fun event and to the teams who joined us. We’re especially grateful to our 2019 tournament sponsors: Fred’s Towing & Transport; Moon Runners Saloon; Rutledge Mini Storage & Climate Control and Greystone Tru-Light.

 

ICYMI: NEW BOOK RELEASE Mechanical Circulatory Support: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease, 2nd Edition!

From Elsevier: Offering comprehensive, authoritative coverage of mechanical circulatory support (MCS), this fully revised companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease provides the clinically relevant information you need to effectively use this therapy to treat and manage end-stage heart failure. New editors and authors – experts in both cardiology and cardiovascular surgery – bring you fully up to date with the newest technology and devices, as well as basic science, clinical applications, adverse event monitoring and management, socioeconomic implications, future directions, and more. NOTE: One of the co-authors is our own Joe Rogers! Learn more:

http://bit.ly/2mbsrjd

Commemorative 25th Anniversary Books Still Available

Own a piece of history! We have a few remaining copies of the Duke Heart Center 25th anniversary commemorative photo book available. They are located on the 8th floor of the HAFS building and are available on a first come, first served basis at no cost. Please see Renee Story in person this week if you would like a copy.

 

 

 

 

Upcoming Opportunities/Save the Date:

Triangle Heart Walk: September 22.

Check in starts at 12:30 p.m.; the walk is at 2 p.m. at PNC Arena. Have you registered? Help Duke beat UNC – we need more walkers!

This is it: The Heart Walk is next weekend!! We look forward to seeing as many members of the Duke Heart team there as possible.

Consider joining our Heart Center team aimed at partnering to advance cardiovascular health through community engagement (PACE). Here is the link (or search for “PACE”): http://www2.heart.org/goto/PACEHeartWalkTeam

 

La Pluma: A Narrative Essay Writing Group

Have you ever considered writing an essay for publication describing a patient encounter, or an opinion on a controversial topic? Giving the medical community a “piece of your mind”? Or perhaps a short story that ties into your medical experiences? Then please join us for a brief initial interest meeting for a new writing group for Duke Medical School faculty and residents to be held September 18, 2019 in room 212C, Seeley Mudd Building, at 5:30 PM.

 

We are planning a monthly evening group meeting to share ideas and take turns reading and responding one another’s work. We believe that through this practice, we will not only improve the essays in question, but also refine our own listening and editing skills; and this in turn will enable us to better understand and honor the stories told to us by our patients.

Planned benefits of the group include:

  1. Have your work read and commented on prior to submitting for publication
  2. Learn from others with similar interests
  3. Brainstorm for new ideas
  4. Identify potential journals for publication
  5. Share recommendations for useful writing guides

 

The group leaders will include Ray Barfield, MD, PhD, Sneha Mantri, MD, MA, Frank Neelon, MD, and Brian Quaranta, MD, MA, of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine. At the initial meeting, we plan to give further information about the purpose of the group, as well as assess interest level and potential group size.

 

If you are interested but cannot attend the initial meeting, do not be discouraged. Please email Brian Quaranta at brian.quaranta@duke.edu. We hope to see you there!

 

Cardiology Grand Rounds

Join us for Cardiology Grand Rounds with Ron Witteles of Stanford Medicine. He will present Amyloidosis – A Journey from Esoteric Untreatable to Common/Treatable. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 7:15 a.m., DN, 2001.

Upcoming Grand Rounds:

  • 24: Susan Dent, Duke Cancer Institute.
  • 1: David Kass, Johns Hopkins.

 

Have news to share?

If you have news to share with the Pulse readership, please contact Tracey Koepke, director of communications for Duke Heart at tracey.koepke@duke.edu. We would love to hear about your latest accomplishments, professional news, cool happenings, and any events or opportunities that may be of interest to our Duke Heart family. Please call with any questions: 919-681-2868. Feedback on Pulse is welcome and encouraged.

 

Duke Heart in the News:

September 10 — Sunil Rao

Medscape

Heparin Dosing Oddities in the Cath Lab: A ‘Red Flag’ Raises Questions

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/918035?src=rss

 

September 11 — Robert Califf

Cardiovascular Business

Fluoroquinolone use predicts aortic, mitral regurgitation

https://www.cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/structural-congenital-heart-disease/fluoroquinolone-use-predicts-aortic-mitral-regurgitation

 

September 11 — Adrian Hernandez

Medscape

Cardiac ‘Shrinkage’ on Sacubitril/Valsartan May Rival CRT in Reduced-EF Heart Failure: PROVE-HF

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/918131

 

September 11 — Robert Califf

Medpage Today

Antibiotic Class Associated With Heart Valve Problems

https://www.medpagetoday.com/cardiology/chf/82088


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