Highlights of the week:
This week we welcome Jeroen J. Bax of Leiden University in the Netherlands. Bax is the inaugural Pamela S. Douglas, MD Visiting Scholar. The title of his talk is “Comprehensive Multimodality Imaging in Coronary Artery Disease”. Please join us on Tuesday, Jan. 21. 5 p.m., DN 2003. A reception will follow at the Nasher Museum of Art starting at 6:15 p.m.
2019 Year in Review: Call for Accomplishments
It’s not too late! We are still accepting your submissions as we capture your accomplishments and highlights for 2019. We are looking for important discoveries, grants, papers of note, clinical programs, or innovations that we can highlight for the School of Medicine and the Health System.
Please send an email to Tracey Koepke and Manesh Patel so that we can work to catalog your accomplishments from the past year. Once we have them all compiled, we will share the 2019 highlights with you all. Many thanks to those of you who have shared your work with us so far! We hope to finalize all of the updates by January 27th 2020.
Tucker to Serve as Clinical Lead, DUH CT Stepdown – 3100, Effective March 16th
We are pleased to announce that Sarah Tucker, RN, PCCN will become Clinical Lead for Duke University Hospital’s Cardiothoracic Stepdown – 3100 Unit, effective Monday, March 16. Tucker joined the Duke Heart team in 2013 as a staff nurse on 3100 and is poised to earn her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington at the beginning of March.
Tucker has previous experience as a nursing care assistant in the Emergency Department at Duke Regional Hospital. She has been an integral part of building our successful team through her commitments as a unit preceptor, charge nurse, IV Champion, CPC Committee Tri-Chair, Unit Orientation Committee member, and Unit Scheduling Committee member. She is an active member of AACN and has been nominated for several awards including NC Great 100 and Friends of Nursing.
Tucker holds an Associates of Health Sciences degree from Mount Olive (2013) and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Marketing from North Carolina State University (2009).
Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Sarah to her new role!
Duke Health ‘Live’: The Power of You
Please join Dr. Eugene Washington, Chancellor, and your Duke Health colleagues for the chancellor’s annual address on January 28 to learn more about the vital role each of us play in the success of Duke Health, and how we will continue to excel in 2020. Note: many of the highlights include work done by our Duke Heart team members!
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
4 -5 p.m.
Great Hall, Trent Semans Center
Reception to follow
The event will be available through a live stream for those who cannot join in person. We hope to have details for you next weekend on how you and your staff can view the live stream. All faculty, staff and students from Duke Health are invited and encouraged to attend.
Upcoming Opportunities/Save the Date:
Cardiology Grand Rounds
Upcoming Grand Rounds:
- January 28: Erin Michos, Johns Hopkins. Sex and Gender and their Impact on the Cardiovascular Health of Women.
- February 4: Fellow presentation by Titus Ngeno
- February 11: Cary Ward
- February 18: Chris Longenecker, Case Western
- March 24: Carolyn Lam, Duke-NUS
- April 14: Ryan Tedford, MUSC
- May 12: Michelle Kittleson, Cedars Sinai
Save the Date: ACC 2020 Reception, Chicago!
The annual Duke ACC Reception will be held March 28 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. in the Grant Park Room at the Hyatt Regency, Chicago. The DCRI event planning team will be sending additional information later this week. Be sure to check your email!
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:
January 10 — Patrick Pun (Nephrology; DCRI)
Medpage Today
Dialysis Patients at No Disadvantage After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
https://www.medpagetoday.com/nephrology/esrd/84294
January 13 — Michael Nanna and Eric Peterson
Cardiovascular Business
99% of MI patients eligible for newer secondary prevention therapies
https://www.cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/acute-coronary-syndrome/many-mi-patients-eligible-newer-therapies
January 13 — Duke University Hospital (DCD heart transplant)
Cardiovascular Business
DCD donor hearts could help ease organ shortages
http://bit.ly/2R3X8nJ
January 15 — Jacob Schroder
Healio/Cardiology Today
Q&A: New heart transplant protocol could expand donor pool
http://bit.ly/2R572Fv
January 16 — Jacob Schroder
STAT
http://bit.ly/373TOOT
January 16 — Jonathan Piccini
Healio/Cardiology Today
Key opinion leaders discuss top news from 2019
http://bit.ly/2tjecwZ
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