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Happy Holidays – Highlights Duke Heart 12-22-2019

Happy Holidays & a Break for Pulse

Keep your great story suggestions coming in the new year. Pulse will be on break for the next two weekends. We’ll see you again on Sunday, Jan. 12. Happy holidays, everyone!

Duke Heart Virtual Food Drive

For the holidays, won’t you join the Duke Heart Virtual Food Drive to support the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina? It has been a challenging year for many people throughout our region and we can help! For each dollar contributed, the Food Bank can purchase $10 worth of food for a family in need. Our virtual food drive will run until mid-January. Please help us help the Food Bank!

To contribute, please visit: http://secure.foodbankcenc.org/goto/dukeheart.

 

Miss America 2.0 ‘Goes Red’ with Svati Shah

Miss America 2.0 went ‘red’ for women’s heart health on Thursday evening and continued its evolution as a national platform for female empowerment. The broadcast, which aired live from the Mohegan Sun arena in Montville, CT, featured Duke Heart’s Svati Shah, an American Heart Association Board member as part of the AHA’s collaborative effort with the Miss America Organization.

Her message emphasized the importance of women in STEM fields as a means of addressing overall women’s heart health. Way to go, Svati!

 

 

HF Holiday Gathering Held

The Duke Heart Failure Section gathered at the Mentz home on December 14th to celebrate the holiday season and another fantastic year. Bringing the entire section together with families is one of the best parts of the year. The group enjoyed Indian food, holiday cocktails, s’mores and some karaoke later in the night!

 

 

Heart Nursing Leadership Team Gives Back

The Heart Nursing Leadership Team gathered for a holiday luncheon on Tuesday, Dec. 17 to celebrate the holidays. As part of their teamwork, they chose to support the Durham Rescue Mission, which had a particular need for men’s winter weather items. Together, they collected one set of earmuffs; four scarves; 33 sets of gloves; 88 pairs of socks; 30 hats, and 15 t-shirts. The Mission staff will package and distribute these items to the residents over the holiday season. Our nursing leadership team members had fun recounting past memories their donated items brought to mind. Nice display of teamwork and holiday spirit, everyone!

 

Perfusion Holiday Haul for Family in Need

Our Duke Heart Perfusion team chose to adopt a family in need for the holiday season. Here the team is gathered with gifts they bought and wrapped for a single mom and her two children, aged 2 and 7. The team is hoping they’ve helped make this Christmas a very special one for their adoptees.

This is an impressive holiday “haul”! We love how generous our Duke Heart team members are! Nicely done, everyone.

 

Ginsburg’s G2MC Launches Newsletter

The Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative (G2MC), a not for profit created by Geoff Ginsberg, has launched a newsletter. Check it out here to stay abreast of all good things happening with G2MC!

Cooking Class Series: Resounding Success!

Our pilot cooking class series for our Life is Why sponsorship with the American Heart Association concluded on Friday evening. Held for the past seven weeks at the Lakewood YMCA in Durham, their grand finale meal was a chicken and ham jambalaya — which tasted as good as it looked and smelled during preparation. The community participants not only learned foundational cooking skills, but a better understanding of how cooking for themselves at home can significantly impact their health and well-being. They also built a strong sense of camaraderie with one another.

One of our participants had never prepped or cooked a meal before in his life and has since started cooking for himself. Another participant had zero knife skills prior to participating and has been keeping the cooking skill lessons a secret from his wife and extended family members – he surprised all of them earlier today with a medley of dishes he learned to cook over the past two months.

Little known fact: Manesh is handy in a kitchen!

Upcoming Opportunities/Save the Date:

Cardiology Grand Rounds

  • December 24: No Grand Rounds. Happy Holidays!
  • December 31: No Grand Rounds. Happy Holidays!

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:

 

December 13 — Adam DeVore

Medpage Today

ARNI for Heart Failure: Earlier Is Better

https://www.medpagetoday.com/cardiology/chf/83901

 

December 18 — General Duke Hospital mention

Spectrum News

Rising Flu Cases Prompt Visitation Restrictions at Duke Hospitals

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2019/12/18/rising-flu-cases-prompt-visitation-restrictions-at-duke-hospitals

December 18 — Sreekanth Vemulapalli

tctMD/the heart beat

Year in Review: Low-Risk TAVR Trials Big in 2019, but QoL Data Impresses, Too

https://www.tctmd.com/news/year-review-low-risk-tavr-trials-big-2019-qol-data-impresses-too

December 18 — Duke SOM is mentioned

WRAL

New Partnership

http://bit.ly/35YBtly

 

December 19 — Svati Shah

NBC

Miss America 2.0

https://duke.app.box.com/s/mwknzf2tgb44bi5tnb78je4xzp5g5w3r


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