Perspective Magazine
Perspective is published annually and shared with friends and alumni of the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health. The publication highlights achievements from the previous year, keeping an eye toward the future and always with the perspective that people and communities come first.
Recent News
Does Ed Hammond, PhD, process oxygen twice as fast as the average man? It’s as good as any other explanation for how the esteemed biomedical informatician climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro at age 79 and how he keeps his energy and curiosity as strong today as they were 58 years ago, when he created one of the first computer-based medical histories for patients in the country, in what was then the newly created Department of Community Health Sciences (now the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health) at Duke.
Sangvai is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke and will be the first Indian-American Cabinet member.
Mina Silberberg, PhD, a professor in the Duke Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, has been named faculty director for the new Duke Center for Community Engagement. Reporting jointly to the vice president for community affairs and the vice provost for interdisciplinary studies in this role, she will facilitate greater coordination of engaged education and research across the university.
Women are less likely to receive CPR from a bystander than men when stricken with cardiac arrest. New research finds this disparity is eliminated when 911 operators guided an emergency caller through CPR steps.