Check out our news archive below to learn more about what’s happening in Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences!
Dane Whicker Is among New CTSI Equity in Research Core Leaders
The Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute launched a new Equity in Research core in July 2020 that aims to elevate, advance, and accelerate equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist research. Medical instructor Dane Whicker, PhD, is co-director of the core.
Deborah Koltai Receives Inaugural Bass Connections Leadership Award
Deborah Koltai, PhD, associate professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences and neurology, and Jason Somarelli, PhD, assistant professor in medicine, are the winners of the 2021 Bass Connections Leadership Award.
“In-the-Moment” Mental Health Support for Students from Their Peers
A new student-operated texting platform called DukeLine has a single goal: improving the mental health of students through quick peer response. Associate professor Nancy Zucker, PhD, advises the program.
Bass Connections Faculty Perspectives: Gabriela Nagy
In a recent Bass Connections orientation for team leaders, assistant professor Gabriela Nagy, PhD, shared her experiences as a Bass Connections team leader and gave advice to other faculty members.
Duke University School of Medicine Ranks Third in Nation for Research
Duke University School of Medicine vaulted to No. 3 for research among 122 medical schools in the nation—tying its highest ranking in history—in the U.S. News & World Report annual ranking of graduate programs released today. It was also ranked third in 2001.
Two Prestigious Duke Awards, One Psychiatry Winner
Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, the K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, has been selected to receive a Duke University Presidential Award and the Ruth and A. Morris Williams Faculty Research Prize.
Three Faculty Receive Departmental Pilot Grants
Please join us in congratulating Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences faculty members Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD, Jeremy Grove, PhD, and Sarah Wilson, PhD, on receiving departmental grants to support underrepresented minority faculty members and/or health inequities research!
Financial Strain Predicts Future Risk of Homelessness and Partly Explains the Effect of Mental Illness
A new study led by Duke Psychiatry's Eric Elbogen, PhD, suggests financial strains like debt or unemployment are significant risk factors for becoming homeless, and even help to explain increased risk of homelessness associated with severe mental illness
Holistic Initiative Aims to Build Trauma-Informed Schools and Keep Kids in the Classroom
In early 2019, faculty members and support staff from the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress—including associate professor Tripp Ake—and nearly 70 participants from across the country initiated the Breakthrough Series Collaborative on Trauma-Informed Schools.
Two Blues Join Forces to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease
If doctors could catch the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain earlier, could the disease be delayed or even prevented? This is the question that researchers at Duke and UNC are hoping to answer by joining forces on the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Collaborative.