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  1. C. David Page, PhD, Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University School of Medicine
    Data De-identification: Possibilities, Progress, and Perils
    October 25, 2019
    By: C. David Page, PhD

    The process of de-identifying clinical data for use in research and quality improvement involves safeguarding...

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    Approaching Health Data Science with Humility
    October 3, 2019
    By: Erich S. Huang, MD, PhD

    “The only wisdom we can hope to acquire

    Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.”

    —T. S. Eliot, “East Coker,” from Four Quartets (1939)

    “One, two, three, four,...

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    Natural but Not Intuitive or Supported: Making Breastfeeding an Option for All Women
    August 21, 2019
    By: Oluwadamilola Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS

    For various reasons, I spent 5 days in the hospital recovering from the birth of my first child, who is now 8. He was then much as he is now: precocious, bright-eyed, and nearly always hungry. He took to nursing like he was born to do it (which,...

  4. Megan Clowse, MD
    Finding a Way to Better Decisions: Lupus, Pregnancy, and the Challenges of Ensuring that Therapeutic Advances Actually Help Patients
    August 19, 2019
    By: Megan Elizabeth Bowles Clowse, MD, MPH

    “TB” (not her real initials) is a 26-year-old Asian-American woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), a chronic autoimmune disease that can...

  5. Portrait of Duke Rubenstein Fellow Eric Perakslis, PhD
    Be Quiet and Listen: What Health Information Technology Should Be Learning from the Ebola Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo
    July 30, 2019
    By: Eric D. Perakslis, PhD

    Hey all. I’m just back from holiday and hoping that you all are enjoying your summer!  As promised, here’s an update on our Ebola response efforts, along with some personal reflections. (In case you missed it earlier, my previous blog, which...

  6. Yousef Zafar, MD
    Is Patient Medical Knowledge the Solution to Our Healthcare Value Crisis?
    July 25, 2019
    By: Yousuf Zafar, MD

    Advocacy groups shout it from the rooftops. Research careers are built around it. And medical education has integrated it into many curricula. I’m talking about shared decision-making—the idea that medical decisions should be made in partnership...

  7. Shelley Rusincovitch, MMCi
    Duke Machine Learning Summer School Delivers Insight
    July 15, 2019
    By: Shelley Rusincovitch, MMCi

    This past June, more than 100 participants filled the Schiciano Auditorium in the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (FCIEMAS) on Duke University’s West Campus. They were there to attend the latest...

  8. Dr Califf
    Perverse Incentives, Congenital Heart Disease, and American Medicine
    July 9, 2019
    By: Robert Califf, MD, MACC

    As a parent of a child with congenital heart disease (CHD), I felt a mixture of grief and horror upon reading a recent...

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    Helping the Heart Know What it Wants - and Needs
    June 27, 2019
    By: Oluwadamilola Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS

    The other day, after running as fast as he could around our yard, one of my sons ran up to me, grabbed my hand, and placed it on his chest. “See?” he said, “I can control how fast my heart beats!” I paused to position my fingers in just the right...

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    Navigating Misinformation Across Three Continents
    June 24, 2019
    By: Brian G. Southwell, PhD

    In recent weeks, I’ve met with public health professionals on Australia’s west coast, journalists in Baltimore, Facebook staff in Manhattan, and science museum employees in Denmark. As I’ve spoken with information professionals from across the...

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