School of Medicine and
Allied Health Programs
By the numbers
Students
- School of Medicine: 471
- PhD Programs in Basic Sciences: 434
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Allied Health Programs:
- Physical Therapy: 145
- Physician Assistant: 108
- Pathologist's Assistant: 11
- Clinical Leadership Program (MHS degree): 3
- Clinical Research Program (MHS degree): 68
- Clinical Pastoral Education: 11
- Pharmacy practice/ambulatory care pharmacy residencies: 6
Graduate Medical Education: 850
Continuing Medical Education: 261 activities attended by 40,000 physicians and 18,000 non-physicians
Faculty: 1,840 (full-time)
Highlights
The medical school rose to #5 in the nation in research funding from the National Institutes of Health in FY2005, and also ranked #6 in the 2006 U.S.News & World Report ranking of American medical schools.
Duke Medicine celebrated its 75th anniversary; major commemorative events included the 75th Anniversary Medical School Convocation, a community gala, and 75th Anniversary Science Symposium.
The School of Medicine produced a new strategic plan (PDF) — part of the overarching strategic plan for Duke Medicine announced in summer 2006—to guide its development over the next decade.
The Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) was established in July 2005 with a $300-million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). In October 2005, NIAID committed $22.25 million to fund a radiologic anti-terrorism center at Duke.
Furthering Duke's institution-wide commitment to improve global health, the medical school played a key role in launching the new Duke Global Health Institute in April 2006.
Faculty continued to advance scientific knowledge through notable discoveries such as completing the genetic mapping of human chromosome 1. Duke physician-scientists also worked to translate scientific concepts into practical advances—including developing a new genomic strategy to guide selection of best drugs for individual cancer patients—and reported results of several landmark clinical trials, including an international study that identified a more effective therapy for debilitating Paget’s disease.
More highlights and research news
Awards and recognition
Neurobiologist Erich Jarvis, PhD, was selected as a recipient of a 2005 National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
Peter Agre, MD, vice chancellor of science and technology and professor of cell biology, and James O. McNamara, MD, Carl R. Deane professor and chair of the Department of Neurobiology, were elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
Victor J. Dzau, MD, chancellor for health affairs, received the prestigious Robert H. Williams, MD Award from the Association of Professors of Medicine
Huntington Willard, PhD, director of the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, was named as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Christopher Newgard, PhD, director of the Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, received a $500,000 Freedom to Discover grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb
Joanne Wilson, MD, professor of gastroenterology, was appointed by the NIH as a member of the National Commission on Digestive Diseases
Christian R. H. Raetz, MD, PhD, George Barth Geller professor and chairman of biochemistry, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Professors Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD, Nelson Chao, MD, MBA, and Howard Rockman, MD, were elected to the Association of American Physicians
Additional awards and recognition (7.6MB PDF)
Appointments
R. Sanders Williams, MD, dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, was also named founding dean of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
Monte D. Brown, MD, was named vice president of administration for Duke University Health System and associate dean of veterans affairs for the School of Medicine
Harvey Jay Cohen, MD, was named interim chair of the Department of Medicine
New division chiefs appointed included Cynthia Shortell, MD, vascular surgery; Ramon Esclamado, MD, otolaryngology
Additional appointments and promotions (7.6MB PDF)
Major gifts
$10 million from the Preston Robert Tisch family of New York, NY, including $5 million for basic and clinical research on new brain tumor drugs and $5 million matched by the Medical Center, to establish the Preston Robert Tisch Cancer Investigators Fund. Duke’s Brain Tumor Center is named to honor Mr. Tisch.
$5 million from the Atlanta-based Zeist Foundation, established by the late Mr. and Mrs. George W. Brumley--$2 million will support research in the Duke Neonatal-Perinatal Research Institute (NPRI), $1.5 million will endow the Jean and George W. Brumley, Jr., MD Professorship in Neurodevelopmental Biology, and $1.5 million will endow the George W. Brumley, Jr., MD Professorship in Developmental Biology. The NPRI is named to honor Mr. and Mrs. Brumley.
$1.5 million from John Laurino of Wilmington, NC, to support breast cancer research, residency training in the Department of Surgery, and the Department of Ophthalmology.
$533,244 from the estate of Daniel J. Pachman, M’35, and his wife, Vivian Allison, to establish the Vivian Allison and Daniel J. Pachman, MD Scholarship Fund for Duke medical students.
$500,000 to provide unrestricted support in the Department of Pediatrics from Beverly Carver Morgan, M’55, in honor of the late Joseph St. Geme, Jr., MD, father of current pediatrics chair Joseph St. Geme III, MD.
$500,000 from Kingsdown, Inc., of Mebane, NC and its owner, Eric Hinshaw, to help expand Duke neonatal services to Alamance Regional Medical Center and Moore Regional Hospital, establish a Duke-affiliated pediatric cardiology practice in Fayetteville, NC, and provide mental health and substance abuse services in Durham County.
$342,429 from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust to Duke’s Department of Community and Family Medicine to provide prenatal care, mental health services, and education on sexually transmitted diseases to teens at Durham’s Southern and Hillside high schools.
$200,000 from The Duke Endowment and $300,000 from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for a yearlong project of the Duke-affiliated N.C. Center for Child and Family Health-NC to help children who are victims of domestic violence and living in shelters in six North Carolina counties.
$100,000 from Timothy Keane of St. Louis, MO, in honor of Michael C. Mauney, T’87, M’91, including $50,000 to the Fund for DukeMed Davison Club Scholarship Fund and $50,000 to a Davison Club endowment established by Dr. Mauney’s father, the late F. Maxton “Mac” Mauney, M’59
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