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We’re delighted to announce that Lisa Amaya-Jackson, MD, MPH, has received the 2020 Humanitarian Award from the Duke Medical Alumni Association.

With the nation in the middle of an ongoing opioid crisis, there is a critical need for the development of nonopioid treatments for safe and effective treatment of pain symptoms.

Marvin Swartz, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, recently penned an op-ed in NC Policy Watch, “Assistance for incarcerated people discharged during the pandemic: The humane and constitutional thing to do.”

Much important attention is focusing on how the COVID-19 pandemic is gravely affecting people who are incarcerated in US jails and prisons, a crisis that is worsening daily.

Duke Psychiatry's Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD, shares the sources she trusts most when seeking information related to the pandemic.

Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences faculty members Nicole Schramm-Sapyta, PhD, and Kathryn Dickerson, PhD, are among the co-leads of an interdisciplinary team seeking to address inclusion and power dynamics in academia.

Bryan Sexton, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the Duke Center for Healthcare Safety and Quality, has launched a new video series around the idea of “bite-sized” resilience.

Nicole Heilbron, PhD, associate professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences and vice chair of clinical services, has received a Duke University Presidenti

Luis Betancourt, MD, and Javier Santos-Cubiñá, MD, became fast friends when Betancourt—then a second-year Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) fellow at Duke—interviewed Santos-Cubiñá for the fell

On Tuesday, February 11, an interdisciplinary group of Duke researchers and clinicians launched the Duke Sexual and Gender Minority Health Program at a day-long symposium on the Duke campus.