Carrying on Dr. King’s Legacy: The Fight for Equity in Obesity Treatment
Duke Research Blog » Biomedical Engineering
by Skylar Hughes
2M ago
“Of all the forms of inequality” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said in a 1966 press conference, “injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane.” In honor of King’s impact on public health, Duke’s dean of Trinity College Dr. Gary G. Bennett delivered a powerful address Jan. 12 at the Trent Semans Center. Entitled ‘You have to Keep Moving Forward: Obesity in High-Risk Populations,’ the Dean of Duke’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences discussed America’s Obesity Epidemic, and its disproportionate effect on Black women. “More than 40% of the American population has obesity ..read more
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Sharing a Love of Electrical Engineering With Her Students
Duke Research Blog » Biomedical Engineering
by Guest Post
2M ago
Note: Each year, we partner with Dr. Amy Sheck’s students at the North Carolina School of Science and Math to profile some unsung heroes of the Duke research community. This is the seventh of eight posts. “As a young girl, I always knew I wanted to be a scientist,” Dr. Tania Roy shares as she sits in her Duke Engineering office located next to state-of-the-art research equipment. Dr. Tania Roy of Duke Engineering The path to achieving her dream took her to many places and unique research opportunities. After completing her bachelor’s in India, she found herself pursuing further studies at univ ..read more
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Solving More Medical Device Challenges by Teaching Others How
Duke Research Blog » Biomedical Engineering
by Guest Post
3M ago
Note: Each year, we partner with Dr. Amy Sheck’s students at the North Carolina School of Science and Math to profile some unsung heroes of the Duke research community. This is the third of eight posts. Eric Richardson is a professor of the practice in Biomedical Engineering and founding director of Duke Design Health. His research and teaching centers around medical device design and innovation, with a focus on underserved communities.  Eric Richardson, Ph.D. Richardson has always had a strong desire to enhance people’s wellbeing. Growing up, he wanted to be a doctor, but during high sch ..read more
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Pioneering New Treatments in Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease
Duke Research Blog » Biomedical Engineering
by Guest Post
3M ago
Note: Each year, we partner with Dr. Amy Sheck’s students at the North Carolina School of Science and Math to profile some unsung heroes of the Duke research community. This is the second of eight posts. Meet a star in the realm of academic medicine – Dr. Kyle Todd Mitchell! A man who wears many hats – a neurologist with a passion for clinical care, an adventurous researcher, and an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Duke – Mitchell finds satisfaction in the variety of work, which keeps him “driven and up to date in all the different areas.” Dr. Mitchell holds a deep brain stimulation device ..read more
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Inventors, Assemble: The Newest Gadgets Coming Out of Duke
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by Michelle Li
3M ago
What do a smart toilet, an analog film app, and metamaterial computer chips have in common? They were all invented at Duke! The Office for Translation & Commercialization—which supports Duke innovators bringing new technologies to market—recently hosted its fifth annual Invented at Duke celebration. With nine featured inventors and 300 attendees, it was an energetic atmosphere to network and learn. Attendees mingle in Penn Pavilion. Credit: Brian Mullins Photography. When event organizer Fedor Kossakovski was selecting booths, the name of the game was diversity—from medicine to art, from g ..read more
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How to be a Global Inventor
Duke Research Blog » Biomedical Engineering
by Olivia Ares
4M ago
Gadgets, devices, doo-dads, oh my! The Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI)  recently hosted three of its members to lead a panel on creating medical devices for low- and middle-income countries. The event was called “Global Medical Device Innovation: Three Models for Creation and Commercialization.” Each sought to decrease costs and increase scalability for medical procedures. In short, they are expert inventors who are doing good in the world.  Two of the most prominent inventors of our era. Image courtesy of Disney. We’ll go step-by-step in a moment, but to start you on your journe ..read more
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Only Mostly Dead? The Evolving Ethics of Evaluating Death
Duke Research Blog » Biomedical Engineering
by Victoria Wilson
7M ago
I recently had the pleasure of attending Professor Janet Malek’s lecture: Only Mostly Dead? The Evolving Ethical Evaluation of Death by Neurologic Criteria, a lecture sponsored by the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine. Dr. Malek is an associate professor in the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, and at the Baylor College of Medicine Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Janet Malek Ph.D. We don’t often talk about death. On the surface, it seems like it would be a straight-forward concept. You’re either dead, or you’re not dead. Right? It turns ..read more
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Jason Dinh Once Collected Cicadas, Now He Researches Snapping Shrimp
Duke Research Blog » Biomedical Engineering
by Cydney Livingston
1y ago
Jason Dinh’s research career began unintentionally with a semester at Duke’s Marine Lab. A current fourth-year PhD candidate in Duke’s Biology Department, Dinh ventured to the Marine Lab for a mental reset in the spring of his sophomore year as a Duke undergraduate. “While I was there, I realized that people can just get paid to ask questions about how the world works,” Dinh told me, “And I really didn’t know that was a thing that you could do.” Maybe this is what I want to do, he thought. Jason Dinh, fourth-year PhD candidate in Duke Biology Department Dinh spent his remaining undergraduate s ..read more
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What is it like to Direct a Large, Externally-Funded Research Center?
Duke Research Blog » Biomedical Engineering
by Meghna Datta
1y ago
What are the trials and tribulations one can expect? And conversely, what are the highlights? To answer these questions, Duke Research & Innovation Week kicked off with a panel discussion on Monday, January 23. The panel Moderated by George A. Truskey, Ph.D, the Associate Vice President for Research & Innovation and a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the panelists included… Claudia K. Gunsch, Ph.D., a professor in the Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Environmental Science & Policy. Dr. Gunsch is the director of ..read more
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The Need for Title IX in STEM
Duke Research Blog » Biomedical Engineering
by Jakaiyah Franklin
1y ago
The Panel: In recognition of the 50th anniversary of Title IX, which was intended to make sex discrimination in education illegal, a panel of Duke women met on Thursday, September 29 to talk about whether Title IX could change STEM, (Science Technology, Engineering and Math). Unfortunately, the answer was not simple. But just through the sharing of the statistics relevant to this problem, the stories, and their solutions, one could start to understand the depth of this problem. One takeaway was that all women in STEM, whether they be student, professor, or director, have faced gender discrimin ..read more
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