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Last year, we chronicled the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic from the eyes of those on the front lines in the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health. We recently caught up with two of those providers — Debra Whiteheart, MHS, PA-C, assistant medical director at Duke Family Medicine Center, and John Ragsdale, M.D., chief of the Division of Family Medicine and vice chair for clinical services in the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health — to see how things are going one year later.

After 27 years at Duke and a long career working in family medicine and occupational medicine, Maggie Gradison, M.D, MHS-CL, is ready to celebrate her retirement by driving to the

Congratulations to Andrew Flynn, M.D., and Andrew Yuan

The Duke Family Medicine Residency Program announced today the eight medical students who will join the program in July as interns. Two will enter the residency's new Rural Training Track.

Candice Johnson, Ph.D., joined the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health in 2020 as faculty in

It’s no secret that the COVID-19 era is one like no other. 

A new Duke Health training program aimed at meeting primary care shortage needs in rural North Carolina has been approved by the ACGME Residency Review Committee. Now accredited, the program will enter the 2021 National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Main Residency Match® with two spots.

Alexa Namba, DO, HS'19, is currently a physician at Duke Primary Care Oxford and a medical instructor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She graduated from the Duke Family Medicine Residency in 2019 and held a continuity clinic at Duke Primary Care Oxford as a second- and third-year resident.

Family Medicine Co-Chief Resident Karen Scherr, M.D., Ph.D., has been named a Duke National Clinician Scholar for the 2021-2023

Thomas O. Brock, III, Ph.D., DABT, the former director of the Duke Toxicology Program, is retiring after 29 years with Duke.