Tomi Akinyemiju

The Duke University School of Medicine is proud to acknowledge faculty members selected as recipients of this year’s School of Medicine faculty awards, which includes three from DCI.

The DCI Community Outreach, Engagement, and Equity program hosted the inaugural MaryAnn Black Distinguished Health Equity Lecture in honor of the late MaryAnn Black.

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers, and clinical providers whose work has recently been featured in the media, trades, journals, at Duke and the DCI blog.

Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, DCI epidemiologist and associate director, COEE, has received Duke funds to research climate change, radon exposure & lung cancer.

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers, and clinical providers whose work has recently been featured in the media, trades, journals, at Duke and the DCI blog.

The hybrid retreat showcased the latest gastric cancer, blood cancer, pediatric sarcoma, glioblastoma, breast cancer, and immune micro-environment research.

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers, and clinical providers whose work has recently been featured in the media, trades, journals, at Duke and the DCI blog.

The Duke Med Alumni News Fall '22 Issue's cover story is "Researchers at Duke are Creating More Precise Approaches to Stopping Tumors."

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers, and clinical providers whose work has recently been featured in the media, trades, journals, at Duke and the DCI blog.

The Duke BioRepository & Precision Pathology Center, a Duke School of Medicine Service Center and DCI Shared Resource turns 10.

Learn how the Precision Cancer Medicine Initiative is advancing research, extending lives, and breaking down barriers to access.

STUDY: Non-Hispanic Black patients are less likely to receive guideline-appropriate treatment for ovarian cancer than non-Hispanic White patients.

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers, and clinical providers whose work has recently been featured in the media, trades, journals, at Duke and the DCI blog.

Association was evident for patients of different ethnicities, those with government and private insurance, and those treated at different types of health care facilities.

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers, and clinical providers whose work has recently been featured by the media, academic trade publications & journals.

DCI surgeon scientist Tammara Lynn Watts, MD, PhD, role is strategic oversight of EDI across DCI’s clinical and academic workforce.

Race, and how people are treated differently because of it, leads to major differences in health outcomes for cancer. Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, has built her career examining these disparities so we can learn how to fix them. 

Here are some of the Duke Cancer Institute faculty, researchers, and clinical providers whose work has recently been featured by the media, academic trade publications & journals.

The Eighth Annual DCI Scientific Retreat was one for the books.

Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, meticulously studies what drives cancer outcomes in populations in the United States and across the globe. 

Community outreach & engagement teams from DCI, Wake Forest and UNC cancer centers have launched an initiative focused on the cancer-related health needs of American Indian communities.

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers and nurses whose work has recently been featured by the media, academic trade publications & journals.

The 8^th Annual DCI Scientific Retreat will be held via Zoom on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Keynote: UCSF's Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS.

Study led by Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, finds racial disparities in lung cancer outcomes erased by equal access to top treatments.

"What's Best For Breasts? A Conversation with Duke Clinicians" was held online on Oct. 2. Topics included imaging, genetic testing, breast cancer risk assessment & prevention.

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers and nurses whose work has recently been featured by the media, academic trade publications & journals.

Here are some of the DCI faculty, researchers and nurses whose work has recently been featured by the media, academic trade publications & journals.

Cancer deaths were lower in those five states and District of Columbia that expanded Medicaid early-on as part of the Affordable Care Act.

In the age of Covid, Community Outreach & Engagement at DCI comes of age, team expands with disparities researcher/associate director

DCI investigators are invited to attend the Inaugural Metastatic Breast Cancer Collaborative Research Virtual Summit.