Announcements

AHEAD Learner Advisory Board (LAB) member, Leslie Mitchell, MSN, RN, was recently chosen by DUSON faculty to be the student speaker at the December DUSON graduation ceremonies.  Read Leslie's full speech here.  Congratulations Leslie! 

Applications are currently being accepted for Duke AHEAD Fellow and Distinguished Member status.  Applications are due 3/24/2017.  For complete information on what's needed to apply, please visit dukeahead.duke.edu/membership. 

November 1, 2016 - 11:30 am

LEAD

Leadership Education and Development Certificate Program

Call for LEAD Fellow Applications for the 2017-18 program

Apply by Friday, November 18, 2016

Steering Committee member Terry Valiga, EdD co-authors the fifth edition of "The New Leadership Challenge: Creating the Future of Nursing"  available here.  Congratulations Dr. Valiga! 

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Terry Valiga

Clinical Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing

This past weekend at the North Carolina Physical Therapy Association’s (NCPTA) Fall Conference, steering committee member Kyle Covington, PT, DPT, PhD was elected NCPTA President.  Dr. Covington will serve as president for a three year term.  Congratulations! 

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Kyle Covington

Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery

Junior faculty members are often faced with the critical challenge of jump-starting their careers at the same time that family/childcare obligations are least flexible. In recognition of this challenge, the School of Medicine is pleased to support the Faculty Flex Voucher Program. Faculty Flex Vouchers are designed to be used in a wide variety of ways by connecting junior faculty members with high quality academic services that facilitate their engagement in scholarly work.

In our continuing efforts to ensure health professions education programs occur in professional, respectful, and intellectually stimulating academic and clinical learning environments, and while recognizing the benefits of diversity and promotion of students’ attainment of competencies required of future health professionals, we are very pleased to offer project funding for members of Duke AHEAD with the support of Dean Andrews and Dean Broome.  This funding is intended to provide critical start up support for innovative projects which will enhance the learning environment for hea

Congratulations to Duke AHEAD Steering Committee members Andrew Muzyk, PharmD, and Alison Clay, MD, the recipients of the inaugural Interprofessional Education Awards. Read their full nomination letters below. Congratulations also to all of the nominees of the award: Melinda Blazar, MHS, PA-C, Beth Phillips, PhD, RN, CNE, Meg Carman, DNP, ACNP-BC, ENP-BC, FAEN,  Elizabeth Ross, DPT, MMSc, FAACH, Linda Lee, PhD, Poonam Sharma, MD,  and Cecily Peterson, MD.

You are cordially invited to join the first ever Book Club being sponsored by DUSON’s Institute for Educational Excellence!

As you might imagine, the focus of the Book Club will be education, pedagogy, and teaching practices.  And this year, we will focus our once-a-month discussions on the material presented in the following excellent and resource-rich text:   

How Learning Works: 7 Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching

by Ambrose, Bridges, DiPietro, Lovett, Norman, and Mayer