My family and I recently returned to the Triangle area after spending three years in Singapore. My husband’s job at GlaxoSmithKline prompted the move, but I have always loved experiencing new cultures and had hoped to live overseas one day. Leaving our extended family and a conventional career path was difficult, but the opportunities at Duke-NUS Medical School made it an easier decision.

Daniel Cunningham graduated from Duke School of Medicine in 2017; he is a current Resident and also a 2017 CRTP Alumus.  He is part of the CRTP – Duke CTSA (NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award) Cohort, a unique program that allows third year medical students at Duke to pursue either the full Masters Degree or a Clinical Research ‘Core’ certificate while they concurrently pursue their medical degree.  Thus far, CRTP has awarded 28 medical students with the Masters degree and conferred 73 students with the core certificate.  The CTSA is the NIH’s largest single investm

On July 1, Zainab Samad, MBBS, MHS, associate professor of Medicine at Duke, will become the first chairwoman of the Department of Medicine at Aga Khan University in Pakistan, her alma mater. This is quite an accomplishment for anyone, but in particular for a woman from a highly conservative Pashtun family in northern Pakistan. There, young girls traditionally were not allowed to attend school in accordance with the practice of purdah, the global religious idea that women should be physically segregated from men.

A 2002 CRTP graduate, Deborah Fisher is an Associate Professor of Medicine and serves as Associate Director for Gastroenterology Research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). Her research focus is colorectal cancer prevention, detection, and surveillance.

As a professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Dr Susan Halabi’s research specializes in the design and analysis of clinical trials, statistical analysis of biomarker and high dimensional data, and development and validation of prognostic and predictive models.  It is a perfect fit that she has taught CRP 248 – Clinical Trials since 2002 and mentored many students in the program.