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GU January Spotlight
Meet Rhonda Wilder! She’s the Regulatory Coordinator, Senior for the GU Oncology Research Team. In this role, she oversees the approval of studies throughout their life-cycles at Duke. Rhonda and her team manage the IRB submissions for new clinical trials and ensure they get opened for accruals...
Random Acts of Kindness Warm Veteran’s Heart
The dense jungles of Vietnam is where Thomas Johnson, 80, a retired United States Army soldier, learned his definition of survival. Throughout his 21-year career with the military, Johnson was deployed twice to Vietnam, in 1968 and 1970. During his combat service, he survived enemy ambushes,...
Bladder Cancer Survivor Is Grateful For Care, Support
For Red Springs, North Carolina, native Jackie Bounds, family has always been the most important part of his life. He and his wife, Martha, have been married for 34 years and have three children and seven grandchildren. Whether it was taking the annual family vacation or cheering his children on in...
Longo Receives PDC Strenth, Hope and Caring Award
Thomas Longo, MD, urologic oncologist at Duke Raleigh, recently received the 2018 Duke Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) Strength, Hope and Caring Award in the provider category. The Strength, Hope and Caring Program rewards those who go well beyond expectations and whose actions reflect the core of...
Duke University Raises over $40,000 for Movember
Growing mustaches in November is fun, but ask any MoDuke and he will tell you — the hairy endeavor benefits a serious mission to support men's health. For the past seven years faculty and staff from Duke University and Duke Health have formed teams to support the Movember Foundation 's annual...
Employee Spotlight: Blair Thornburg
Meet Blair! This Roxboro, NC, native, born at Duke Regional Hospital, refers to herself as “just that old country girl” and spent her entire life in the Triangle area. She met her husband, Brooks, while in high school and after a first date to the Palace Point Movie Theater, the rest was history...
Adventurer Confronts Daunting Cancer Diagnosis
Ron Deranek, 68, loves the adrenaline a great hike brings to him, and he will travel anywhere in North Carolina to seek out the best mountain-top views. When he committed to hiking the Grandfather Trail at Grandfather Mountain, a 2.4-mile ridgetop stretch to Calloway Peak (better known as the “...
Polascik Receives Trent Fund Grant
Thomas J. Polascik, MD, received a Fall 2018 Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund grant for his work — “Image-guided multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging – transrectal ultrasound fusion biopsy: comparison of cancer detection rate and the changes in sexual function between 6...
Duke Hosts Urologic Assembly & Urologic Cancer Symposium
Duke Urology will host the 51st annual Leading Edge Urology: Duke Urologic Assembly & Urologic Cancer Symposium from March 28 — 31 in Orlando, Florida. This educational conference features lectures by Duke faculty and guest urologists, medical and radiation oncologists. “At Duke, we have...
Shave The Date
Things have been quite hairy around Duke University the month of November. Join the MoDukes as they wrap up #Movember on Friday, Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. for the third annual “Bid Your Face Off” event at Fullsteam brewery. The event, which is a “Bid Your Face Off” auction gala, will feature creative...
DCI Launches Center for Prostate & Urologic Cancers
Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) officially launched the new DCI Center for Prostate & Urologic Cancers, a center of excellence supporting a growing multi-disciplinary clinical and translational research team. The DCI Center for Prostate & Urologic Cancers will be led by a multi-disciplinary...
#MoDukes Ready For Movember
It's the time of year when things get a little hairy. In recognition of Movember, the month otherwise known as November, men far and wide are growing mustaches to help raise awareness and funds for prostate cancer research. The Movember Foundation, an Australian-based organization that launched the...
Cancer Survivor Takes Back Control
“We know you have cancer, but we can’t find it,” the doctors told William “Bill” Dillard during the early months of 2014. After five prostate cancer biopsies producing the same, inconclusive results and with his PSA level continuing to rise, Dillard’s urologist recommended he undergo an emerging...
New Prostate Cancer Prognostic Model For Enzalutamide
Researchers at the Duke Prostate & Urologic Cancer Center, led by genitourinary oncologist Andrew Armstrong, MD, have recently developed a novel nomogram, a prognostic model that measures overall survival for men with metastatic prostate cancer who were treated with enzalutamide, according to...
Tailgate To Tackle Cancer
The Prostate & Urologic Cancer Center recently announced its first annual Tackle Cancer Tailgate to be held Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018, before the Duke vs UNC Football game. Each year, North Carolina’s two teams in different shades of blue battle it out on the football field to earn the right to...
#RunYourStory: Surviving The Marathon
Physician burnout is at its highest level in history. According to a recent study in the American Journal of Medicine, physician-reported burnout increased significantly from 45.5 percent in 2011 to 54.4 percent in 2014. These numbers are also significantly higher than that of the general workforce...