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Lamercie Saint-Hilaire, M.D., medical instructor of community and family medicine, joined the department in October as assistant program director of the Family Medicine Residency, and will be seeing patients at the Duke Family Medicine Center.

David Walker, Ph.D., joined the Duke Toxicology Program in October. He earned his doctorate in toxicology and nutrition from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1993.

By the time Joyce Copeland, M.D., was in the third grade, she had already narrowed her career aspiration list to three options: doctor, the first woman astronaut on the moon or the first woman president.

DataWorks NC, in support of Durham’s Community Health Indicators Project, is publishing Durham’s first public neighborhood-level dataset on chronic health conditions. The data, published in Durham’s Neighborhood Compass and in a new Health Indicators Project website, currently cover type 2 diabetes and will soon expand to include stroke and other conditions. Fred Johnson, MBA, assistant professor of the practice of community and family medicine, serves on the board of DataWorks NC.

The Division of Community Health's Benefits Enrollment Center (BEC) recently launched the Benefits Enrollment Center Fellows Program, a program for Duke University undergraduate and graduate students to join the BEC outreach team, increase awareness of resources, and expand outreach to Durham’s aging population, including those who are homebound.

Gary Greenberg, M.D., MPH, HS’84, former faculty member with the Department of Community and Family Medicine, passed away last month after a battle with cancer.

The Division of Community Health is hosting three conferences in November across the state to highlight a collaborative community approach to diabetes prevention for pregnant and postpartum women. The conferences, supported through a grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, are designed to:

The Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program is accepting applications for the 2019-20 program year through Dec. 7.

Four Duke Community & Family Medicine faculty members have been awarded grant funding through Duke AHEAD for three educational innovation projects.

Duke Community & Family Medicine has been awarded a $1.8 million five-year grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to create and implement a two-year community-based primary care fellowship program. The goal of the Duke Primary Care Transformation Fellowship will be to train physicians and physician assistants to lead health care transformation and improve health within their communities and community-based practice settings.