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Spotts, assistant professor of family medicine and community health, has nearly a decade of experience serving Duke’s campus community and a career dedicated to family medicine and college health.

The National Institutes of Health's proposal to cap reimbursement of facilities and administrative (F&A) costs on research grants at 15% would significantly slow or cease scientific and biomedical research at Duke and other research institutions. Here is an explanation of what F&A costs are and why they are such a critical piece of the research endeavor.

Katelyn Holliday, PhD, is an assistant professor in family medicine and community health.

Watch Chester Rodriguez, PhD, DABT, ERT, explain how the Duke Toxicology Program evaluates chemicals to make sure art supplies are safe for children and serious artists alike. The interview with Rodriguez begins at the 22-minute mark.

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.

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.