Congratulations to Promoted Faculty in the School of Medicine!
Here we recognize and celebrate Duke colleagues who recently achieved promotion, and even tenure, in the School of Medicine. Earning a promotion after a rigorous review process by peers and leaders inside and outside Duke is a testament to the caliber of each individual faculty member and the impact of their research, teaching and mentoring, and their reputation among their peers. It is also, in a way, an invitation to be a partner in shaping the future of Duke and its mission, playing a role in advancing its academic excellence and making it a more equitable and engaged institution. Congratulations!
Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
Genevieve Fouda, Associate Professor in Pediatrics, Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Dr. Fouda received her M.D. from the University of Yaoundé I and her Ph.D. from Georgetown University. Dr Fouda's research interest is in understanding infant immune responses in the setting of infection and vaccination. Her current work focuses on HIV mother to child transmission.
Appointment Date: September 1st, 2020
Kanecia Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Kanecia Zimmerman, MD, MPH, is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine, at Duke University Medical Center, as well as the co-principal investigator of the STAR program. She is currently pursuing a PhD in pharmacoepidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health. Dr. Zimmerman is the recipient of a Duke CTSA Career Development Award, and she focuses her research on improving the safety of drugs administered to critically ill children.
Appointment Date: August 1, 2021
Isaac Karikari, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr. Isaac Karikari, M.D. graduated from Duke University school of medicine. He is a neurosurgeon with a special interest in treating scoliosis and all other spine conditions, which includes spinal stenosis, herniated disc, spondylosis, and spondylolisthesis. He shares "I take great pride in being able to provide compassionate care to all of my patients. Since every patient is unique in their own special way, I design each treatment to meet that patient's needs to ensure excellent outcomes. I take great joy in being a surgeon as it allows me to give back and help people during their most difficult times."
Appointment Date: July 1st, 2020
Gerald Bloomfield, Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Research Professor of Global Health
Gerald Bloomfield, MD, MPH, joined the faculty in Medicine and Global Health after completing his Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship training at Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute. Bloomfield also completed the Duke Global Health Residency/Fellowship Pathway and a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship. He has launched a clinical research program at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya to determine the causes of heart failure among East Africans supported by a K01 Career Development Award from the Fogarty International Center. He received his medical education, internal medicine residency and Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University.
Appointment Date: January 1st, 2021
Promoted to Associate Professor
Oluwatoyosi Onwuemene, Associate Professor of Medicine
Dr. Oluwatoyosi Onwuemene, MD has over 14 years of experience in the medical field. She graduated from Duke University, School of Medicine. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine-Hematology at Duke University School of Medicine and has clinical and research interests in hemostasis/thrombosis and therapeutic apheresis. Her long-term goal is to develop and run therapeutic apheresis multi-center trials with a focus on applications of therapeutic plasma exchange in thrombotic disorders. Read more here.
Appointment Date: September 1st, 2020
Dr. Williams completed a PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Immunology and Microbiology) from the University of Florida and did his postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Barton Haynes at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute. The key goals of HIV vaccine development are to define the host-virus events during natural HIV infection that lead to the induction of broadly neutralizing antibodies, and to recreate those events with a vaccine. As a faculty member in the DHVI, Dr. Williams is further characterizing SHIV non-human primate models for HIV infection, and evaluates B cell responses to HIV-1 vaccination in humans and non-human primates. Dr. Williams is also the Director of the Viral Genetic and Analysis Core and Co-Director of the DHVI Training Program at DHVI.
Appointment Date: May 1st, 2021
Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Professor in Medicine
Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Ph.D., M.A. completed her M.A. at Columbia University and her Ph.D. at the University of Pennslyvania. As an Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine and the Associate Director of Research/Director of the Health Equity Working Group at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards researches how racism, gender, and culture influence health, social and educational outcomes. Beyond identifying disparities, she also investigates how systems can be improved and how cultural strengths can be used to promote resiliency and positive health outcomes in African Americans throughout their lives.
Appointment Date: July 1st, 2021
Tammara Watts, Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Dr. Tammara Watts received her M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Her research focuses on understanding the two-way communication between oral cancer cells and MSCs, as a treatment strategy to target the effects both of these cell types have on each other, including resistance to chemotherapy and radiation.
Appointment Date: January 1st, 2021
Lovest Alexander, Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health
Lovest Alexander, Jr. is a recognized leader in the recruitment of underrepresented minority health career students into the physician assistant (PA) profession. Alexander graduated from North Carolina Central University. Desiring to continue a career in medicine, Alexander entered the Duke University PA Program, graduating with a BHS degree (1978) and later a MHS degree (1991). As a physician assistant, Alexander has worked in general internal medicine, endocrinology and student health services. As an Associate Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Alexander teaches in the Duke University PA Program and serves as a clinical preceptor for both PA and medical students. Learn more here.
Appointment Date: August 1, 2021
Danielle Elliot Range, Associate Professor of Pathology
Dr. Range completed her AP/CP training and head and neck fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She moved on to MD Anderson Cancer Center to complete a cytopathology fellowship. After training, Danielle joined MD Anderson as the only faculty member signing out head and neck and cytopathology. Before coming to Duke in 2015, Danielle spent several years in private practice where she served in leadership positions as director of anatomic pathology and cytopathology. Since joining Duke, Danielle has served as associate medical director in cytopathology, section chief for ENT/Endocrine Pathology, and chair of the Clinical Competency Committee for the cytopathology fellowship. She is a member of the American Society of Cytopathology, Current Concepts and Research Committee. These have all given her the opportunity to pursue her interests in laboratory operations and teaching in the disciplines of cytopathology and ENT pathology.
Appointment Date: April 1st, 2021
Promoted to Full Professor
Lawrence Crawford, Professor of Medicine
Dr. Lawrence Crawford, M.D. graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He is a Cardiology Specialist that has experience with Interventional Cardiac Procedures. He is a heart specialist who utilizes catheters to treat and "intervene" in the spread of cardiovascular issues.
Appointment Date: October 1st, 2020