Meet Medical and Nursing Students

Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) students have been able to expand their skill set and stay on track in light of the pandemic due to a mass adaptation of telehealth.

A new clinical program gets Duke medical students off campus and into the community to serve.

As students at Duke University School of Nursing, Lindsay Salisbury and Shelby Strockbine entered their third semester with a new perspective on the importance of global health and their roles as future nurses.

Oxford University epidemiologist Richard Peto was puzzled by a paradox: If cancer is a function of individual cells going haywire, wouldn’t an organism with a lot more cells, say a whale, have a greater chance of getting cancer than a human or a mouse?

Shree Bose, MS, who has been in the national spotlight since she was 17, stays true to her missions of cancer research and science outreach.

At a young age, Melanie Rogers was placed in a foster care home in Virginia. She was raised by a foster mother and a Peruvian nanny alongside 27 foster siblings throughout her childhood. Early on in her life, she recognized a common sentiment that they all share.

New program offers medical students a way to bridge health care and the humanities.

When Brian Sullivan, MD was in college, his grandmother was diagnosed with colon cancer. Despite undergoing colonoscopy screenings every three years, her cancer was not identified early.

A few years ago, eight-year-old twins came into the physical therapy clinic for neurologically-disabled children in Utah where Trac Norris, now a third-year student in the Duke Doctor of Physical Therapy program, volunteered while an undergraduate student. He noticed that they could not walk by themselves, that they were unable to communicate, and that they were blind. During their treatment, the parents told the therapists that one of the boys loved music. Norris set him down on a bench and placed a piano in front of him. The boy began to play.

It was another hectic day at the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at Duke University Hospital. Chris Fry, RN, BSN, was taking care of a 65-year-old man who had received a heart transplant the day before.