Dr. Julius Wilder features in the 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Medicine Grand Rounds

The Department of Medicine (DOM) announces that Dr. Julius M. Wilder, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the division of Gastroenterology, chair of the DOM Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism Committee, and co-director of the Duke CTSE Community Engaged Research Initiative, will be the featured speaker at the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Grand Rounds. 

The theme of his presentation will be: Health Equity, Social Justice, and Duke Health. It will be held on Friday, January 13, 2023.  Dr. Wilder’s research focuses on racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in several areas including access to liver transplantation, morbidity and mortality in viral hepatitis, access to colon cancer screening and clinical trials in the treatment of viral hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, and primary sclerosing cholangitis. He is the principal investigator on multiple clinical trials in gastroenterology, hepatology and transplant hepatology, and he works as gastroenterologist/hepatologist at Duke University and Duke Regional Hospitals. Click to read more