Meet Physicians & Scientists

Lawrence David, PhD, studies this hidden world, the community of hundreds of different species of bacteria that make up each person's gut microbiome...

Growing up in Fairmont, West Virginia, James R. Urbaniak, MD’62, HS’62-’69, was an active and athletic boy who dreamed of playing...

Tucker Roussin is a four-year-old healthy boy. When his mother, Katie, was 20 weeks pregnant, he was diagnosed with a pericardial teratoma, an...

Georgia Beasley was a student-athlete at Duke when she met Sara, an 11-year-old girl, who was sitting on the bleachers at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The...

In 2005, Fumiko Chino, MD’14, thought she had her future planned out. She was engaged to be married and was working in her dream job as an art...

Outside, it is a Friday afternoon in early March: cold, bright, windy.  Inside- in a small room on the first floor of the Duke Clinic – it is after...

People diagnosed with cancer enter a period of intense treatment at a cancer center, and it can seem to their primary care physicians that they have...