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
Named as a Master Mentor by the Duke University School of Medicine Office of Physician-Scientist Development, Ostbye serves as the research mentor for a range of junior researchers and clinicians as well as graduate students across Duke's three campuses (in Durham, at Duke-NUS in Singapore, and at Duke Kunshan in China).
Audrey Blewer, PhD, MPH, provided insight for a story about Texas efforts to improve cardiac arrest survival rates.
Joi Spaulding, MD, MS, earned her M.D. from Wake Forest University in 2020 and her Master of Science at Wake Forest University in 2016. She completed a family medicine residency at Duke and completed a Reproductive Health Clinic and Advocacy Fellowship at the Institute for Family Health in New York City/Reproductive Health Access Project.
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.