Awards

Erin Wood, Senior IT Analyst, Duke Cancer Institute Information Systems, honored with a Duke Presidential Award.

The Duke-UNC Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training Program has been named Program of the Month (for February) by the Council for Tobacco Treatment Training Programs.

Nominations for the 2021 Sullivan Award are now being accepted. Awards will be presented to a graduating senior and to a Duke faculty member, staff person, or graduate/professional student.

Susan Halabi, PhD, is co-leading a project to create a large international registry of data from prostate cancer patients treated with various PARP inhibitors.

DCI pathologist Jung Wook Park, PhD, mentored by Jiaoti Huang, MD, PhD, and Andrew Armstrong, MD, MSc, has received a Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award.

The NAI recognizes academic inventors for their spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development and welfare of society. 

Siqi Li was one of six senior PhD students in the School of Medicine were awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence in basic science research. 

Daniel Sullivan, MD, professor emeritus in the Duke University Department of Radiology, received an award from the Prevent Cancer Foundation, on Oct. 28.

Pam Bowman, MSN, RN, OCN and Marybeth Tetlow, MSN, RN, BMTCN, CPN, CNIV, made the list of 2020 Great 100 Nurses of North Carolina. Honored on Oct. 10.

Christina Cone, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, AOCNP, is the 2020 recipient of the Mary Pazdur Award for Excellence in Advanced Practice in Oncology.

The Durham County CRC Cancer Screening Workgroup/Duke Division of Gastroenterology/DCI awarded "Best Culturally Inclusive Social Media Event.” 

Donald McDonnell, PhD, has been recognized for his leadership in estrogen receptor biology by Susan G. Komen with a Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in Basic Science.
 

Jennifer L. Garst, MD, a DCI thoracic medical oncologist at Duke Cancer Center Raleigh and professor of Medicine, has been named a Lung Cancer Hero by CURE Media Group.

For a second year, Arif Kamal, MD, MHS, MBA, FAAHPM, FASCO, has been named an ASCO Advocacy Champion.

 Yvonne Mowery, MD, PhD, was one of four young physician-scientists nationwide selected to receive the Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award.

Twelve faculty in the School of Medicine were recently awarded distinguished professorships. A third of these are DCI members.

Duke Cancer Institute member and family physician Kevin Oeffinger, MD, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (FASCO). 

Christopher Kelsey, MD, associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology and DCI member, was awarded the 2020 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award.

Yousuf Zafar, MD, MHS, FASCO, was honored to deliver the keynote for this year's ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Keith Sullivan, MD, and colleagues reflect on his career and passion.

The nine-woman APP team was awarded for their exceptional service to the Duke community during the 2018-2019 academic year.

Mentored-research training award boosts the next generation of Duke physician-scientists.

Duke researchers are using a $200,000 grant from NC Biotech to “supercharge” vital medical information.

Hashim Murtadha Al-Hashimi, PhD, received the NAS Award in Molecular Biology for pioneering studies into RNA and DNA function on the atomic level.

David Bartlett, PhD, has been selected to receive an ASH Scholar Award to study impact of exercize training on CLL.

Lola Fayanju, MD, and her team will develop a prediction model to identify women with mutable risk factors for compromised breast cancer care.

DCI member Kathryn R Nightingale, PhD, was recently elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Three DCI employees — from Duke Cancer Center Durham, Duke Cancer Center North Durham, and Duke Cancer Center Raleigh — were recently honored with DCI Superstar awards.

Donald P. McDonnell, PhD, and Christopher B. Newgard, PhD, have both received 2020 Laureate Awards from the Endocrine Society.

Ebony Boulware, M.D., and Peter Ubel, M.D., have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

Duke Alumnus, Trustee William G. Kaelin Jr., MD, shares award for studies of how cells adapt to changing oxygen environments. Sign-up for October 16 web chat with him.

Three oncology nurses will be presented with awards for excellence in nursing at the Friends of Nursing Gala on Oct. 26.

Duke Cancer Institute medical oncologist and palliative care specialist Arif Kamal, MD, MHS, MBA, was named an “Advocacy Champion” by ASCO.

Steven R. Patierno, PhD, has been named to receive the 2019 AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities.

Randles' team is one of 15 investigator-led teams being given priority to run her cancer simulations on the nation's first exascale computer "Aurora."

For a second year, Duke Cancer Institute will present its annual DCI Superstar Awards in person at cancer centers in Durham and Wake County.