This program provides opportunities for trainees to acquire essential knowledge
and research skills needed to be successful in an academic career in the field
of perinatal lung disease. On completion of the program, the trainees will
be expected to have mastered basic analytical and laboratory tools and to
have progressed to the state of developing their own independent research
ideas and projects.
This multidisciplinary program for physician-scientists is designed to provide
in-depth background and experience in research in lung biology. This Track
is divided into four programs to allow trainees to acquire the skills needed
to become independent investigators within a specific area. The initial development
of research skills is best accomplished by a two or three year period of intensive
research experience with one of the faculty preceptors comprising this program.
Basic science laboratories and teaching hospital facilities are available
for basic and clinical research, respectively each of the preceptors and laboratories
provides a research program that is directly relevant to a major area of current
neonatal pulmonary medicine research. In addition formal course work and informal
basic science and clinical teaching conferences that enhance the trainee’s
exposure to fundamental knowledge in lung biology.
• Mechanisms of Lung Injury (Program Leader and Mentor, Dr. Richard
Auten)
• Oxidant Biology (Program Leader and Mentor: Claude Piantadosi)
• Role of Nitric oxide in health and disease (Program Leader and mentor:
Dr.Jonathan Stamler)
• Pulmonary Cell Biology and Immunology (Program Leader, Jo Rae Wright,
Ph.D)
• Developmental Lung Biology (Program leader, Dr. Stephen Young).
Masters of Medical Science, Genomic Research
Genomic Research is available and encouraged for trainees in this area.
Additional Neonatal Pulmonary Medicine Didactic Curriculum :
(i) Physiology/Cell Biology Lecture Series:
Faculty conducts a weekly one to two-hour didactic teaching program for all
trainees. Both gas exchange physiology and pumonary related cell biology are
taught.
(ii) Division Research Seminar:
Each week a research seminar is held for research related faculty and treinees.
Faculty and fellows rotate in presenting their current work, seeking constructive
and critical review by their colleagues.
(iii) Research Triangle Visiting Pulmonary Scholar Program:?
This is a joint program coordinated by the Division of Pulmonary Medicine
which includes participation by Duke University (Division of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine); the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Division
of Respiratory Medicine): the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Clinical
Research Branch and Pulmonary Toxicology Branch); the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (Laboratory of Pulmonary Pathobiology); North
Carolina State University Vetirinary School; Glaxo-Wellcome; and the Chemical
Industry Institute of Toxicology. Six speakers are invited each academic year.
The format of the Visisting Pumonary Scholar Program folllows. The visiting
scholar gives two lectures during the visit. The first lecture is followed
by a reception at Duke University, which includes two 30-minute research presentatios,
by trainees from participation institutions.
To refer a patient,
24 hours a day:
Ask for the neonatologist on call at:
1-800-MED-DUKE (1-800-633-3853)
or dial the pager directly at: (919) 970-1714.
Phone (919) 668-1592
Fax (919) 681-6065
