Dr. Donnelly Awarded NIH Grant to Advance Orofacial Pain Therapies
A Duke research team, co-led by Duke Anesthesiology’s Dr. Christopher Donnelly, is awarded a $5,734,530 grant for a translational research project – one of just five UC2 awards that make up the NIH’s RE-JOIN Consortium.
Faculty Awarded NIH Grant to Study Pain Signaling Mechanisms
Congratulations to Drs. Christopher Donnelly and Shad Smith on receiving a $2,132,329 grant to discover new insights into the divergent pathophysiological mechanisms of chronic pain and its associated comorbidities in males and females.
Dr. McCartney Appointed Director of the Center for Blood Conservation
Congratulations to Sharon McCartney, MD, on being named director of the Duke Center for Blood Conservation, a national leader in surgical blood management that provides alternatives for patients who want to avoid blood transfusions.
Dr. Yang Awarded NIH Grant to Study Neuromodulatory Therapeutics for Stroke Patients
Congratulations to Wei Yang, PhD, FAHA, on receiving a $442,750 R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his project that will use state-of-the-art approaches to investigate the role of neuronal activity in chronic stroke recovery.
Dr. Smith Awarded NIH Grant to Study TMD Therapies
Congratulations to Shad Smith, PhD, on receiving a $402,487 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his project that uses single-cell omics approaches to develop new therapies for chronic pain disorders, such as temporomandibular disorders.
Dr. Acker Awarded NIH Grant for HIPPIE Study
Congratulations to Leah Acker, MD, PhD, on receiving a $322,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the role of the aging brain-heart-immune axis in postoperative delirium.
Transition in Leadership Roles
Congratulations to Drs. Gavin Martin, Dhanesh Gupta, and Nicole Guinn on their new appointments as anesthesia director for Duke University Health System, anesthesia medical director for Duke University Hospital and interim chief of the department’s Neuroanesthesiology, Otolaryngology and Offsite Anesthesiology Division.
Dr. Martucci Awarded NIH Grant to Study Long-Term Opioid Therapy
Congratulations to Katherine Martucci, PhD, on receiving a five-year $3,195,387 R01 National Institutes of Health grant to evaluate how opioids affect the brain and spinal cord in patients with chronic pain.
Duke Health Performs World’s First Partial Heart Transplant
A Duke Health team, including pediatric anesthesiologist Dr. Warwick Ames, performs a landmark surgery with the living arteries and valves from a freshly donated heart fused onto the patient’s existing heart.