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 At Duke Family Medicine & Community Health, we believe in the extraordinary impact of generosity. The support of our philanthropic partners enables us to train the next generation of scientists, ensure that every patient receives the highest standard of care, build, and sustain meaningful community partnerships, and accelerate groundbreaking research. Our philanthropic partners help save lives. 

As part of a university-wide effort, Duke Health is embarking on the ambitious MADE FOR THIS campaign to generate resources that will propel innovation, drive discovery, and improve lives around the world. We’re uniting all the extraordinary members of the Duke Health community to meet this moment. That means scientists, clinicians, educators, learners, staff, patients, community partners … AND YOU.

Together, we can achieve extraordinary outcomes and make a lasting impact on the world.

Giving Opportunities

Center for Latino Health: LATIN19 has made a tremendous impact in Durham and throughout the state. Your gift will help establish the Center for Latino Health ensuring this critical work continues, bringing together clinical care, research, advocacy, community engagement, and education in support of our Latino population.

Duke Family Medicine Center: Duke Family Medicine provides full spectrum primary care to the Durham community and houses the Duke Family Medicine Residency Training program. Our current facility is notably outdated, and its size, location, and structure limit our ability to attract patients and care for them in a maximally patient-centered way. Your gift toward a new non-hospital-based Duke Family Medicine Center facility will allow us to care for more patients and train more family medicine physicians and physician assistants to meet the urgent need for primary care health professionals.

Endowment Giving

Duke Physician Assistant Endowment: Your gift will support faculty and students in the #1 ranked Duke Physician Assistant Program.

Family Medicine & Community Health Professorship Endowment: Exceptional faculty are at the heart of our all that we do at Duke Family Medicine & Community Health. Our ability to attract top scientific minds, to retain them, and to provide them with the resources necessary to innovate and lead is vital to our success. Your gift will help create and support a department professorship.

Leonard J. and Margaret F. Goldwater Professorship Endowment: Established with an initial gift from Leonard J. Goldwater, MD, and additional contributions from friends of the Duke Department of Family Medicine and Community Heath, your gift will help support this endowed professorship that honors Leonard J. and Margaret F. Goldwater. This distinguished professorship is awarded to a scholar who has established research eminence and excellence in the fields of Family Medicine, Community Health, Primary Care, or Occupational Medicine.

Research Giving

Family Medicine & Community Health Research Support and Education Fund: Your gift will support general departmental education and research support.

Goldwater Occupational Medicine Research Fund: Your gift will support general research in the field of occupational and environmental medicine.

LGBTQ+ Health Disparities Fund: Duke Family Medicine Center is working to expand its clinical practice to include an LGBTQ+ patient-centered medical home (PCMH), in coordination and cooperation with key Duke University stakeholders and the local LGBTQ+ community, to increase the quality of care experienced by Durham and Duke’s LGBTQ+ identified patients. Your gift will support the incorporation of LGBTQ+ advocacy and research into our medical professions development, to not only allow for advancements within medicine, but also to serve as positive role models for more junior LGBTQ+ individuals in medicine. Make a gift to the LGBTQ+ Health Disparities Fund

Education & Training Giving

Joyce Copeland, MD, Residency Education Fund: The Joyce Copeland, M.D., Residency Education Fund honors Dr. Copeland’s decades of service to the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, specifically the family medicine residency and division. Your gift will support learning and academic excellence for our physicians-in-training, and honors Dr. Copeland’s long and rewarding career as a physician, mentor, and friend. Make a gift to the Joyce Copeland, MD, Residency Education Fund

Duke Physician Assistant Program Giving Opportunities: The Duke Physician Assistant Program has three scholarship funds to provide grant-in-aid awards to deserving students. In the past 10 years, over 250 Duke PA students have received scholarships through the donations of alumni and others. You can designate your gift to any of the three funds:

• Physician Assistant General Scholarship: All students are eligible for grants-in-aid awards from the General Scholarship Fund. These scholarships are awarded annually in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $5,000. Make a gift to the Physician Assistant General Scholarship Fund
   
• Physician Assistant Global Health: The Global Health Fund awards one $1,000 scholarship each year to a student who is pursuing a Global Health Elective, to offset costs of travel and housing in the host country. Make a gift to the Physician Assistant Global Health Fund
   
• Physician Assistant Striver Scholarship: This fund awards scholarships designated for students who are overcoming disadvantaged economic or educational backgrounds, and honors the memories of Fiona Lawrence (Class of 2012) and Marcus Johnson (Class of 2013) who passed away during their enrollment in the PA program. Make a gift to the Physician Assistant Striver Scholarship

 

For more information or to discuss how your gift can support the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health, contact:

Stacy Davis
Assistant Vice President
School of Medicine Development and Alumni Affairs
Phone: 919-385-3188
E-mail: stacy.davis@duke.edu