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Raleigh-Durham, NC

MEDICAL SCHOOLS:

Some of the distinguished Raleigh-Durham area institutions that are participating in the NYLF/MED program include:

• Duke University School of Medicine
• Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine

ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:

• Scholars will stay on the historic campus of the University of North Carolina, which became the nation’s first public university in 1789. Situated in the beautiful town of Chapel Hill, N.C., UNC has earned a reputation as one of the best universities in the world.
• Raleigh-Durham is located in the heart of the Research Triangle, a globally prominent biological and technological research and development center.
• The City of Durham is known as the "City of Medicine,” with more than 300 medical and health-related companies and practices including Duke University, the city’s largest employer.

CLINICAL INSTITUTIONS:

Clinical visits will take place at the following institutions:

• North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
• Duke University’s Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center
• Duke Sports Medicine Center
• UNC Department of Surgery, Dr. John F. Stegge in Advanced Laparoscopy
• UNC Center for Heart and Vascular Care, Broadcast with Dr. Andy C. Kiser in Cardiothoracic Surgery
• UNC Cardiothoracic Simulation Center
• UNC Hospitals School of Nuclear Medicine Technology and Molecular Imaging
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences & Research Triangle Park Headquarters
• McLendon Clinical Laboratories
• North Carolina Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTECH)
• Center for Nursing Discovery (CND) at Duke University Simulation Center
• Bio-Tech Prosthetics and Orthotics

SPEAKERS:

Speakers who have participated in past Raleigh-Durham Forums include:

Kurt Gilliland, Ph.D. Kurt Gilliland, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, came to North Carolina in 1988 to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he earned a bachelors degree in biology. After working in a diabetes research laboratory at Duke University for one year as a technician, he returned to graduate school at North Carolina State University where he earned a masters degree in physiology. At that point, he taught high school for two years, teaching biology, chemistry, and physics, and coaching soccer and basketball. He then came back permanently to Chapel Hill, where he earned a PhD in the School of Medicine in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. He is currently still in that same department where he is Medical Alumni Distinguished Teaching Assistant Professor. Dr. Gilliland teaches gross anatomy and cell biology to first-year medical students and has earned 11 teaching awards. He also co-chairs the first-year curriculum and serves as Director of Curriculum for the School of Medicine. In the research laboratory, he studies the disease cataract and periodically travels to India to study blindness due to cataract. He currently lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife and four-year-old son.

Danny O. Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H. Danny Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H., the David C. Sabiston, Jr. Professor, joined Duke University Medical Center as Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery in February 2003. A specialist in gastrointestinal surgery, Jacobs is a highly regarded teacher and researcher. Jacobs received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in Boston and earned a medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1979. After completing a residency and fellowship in surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Jacobs returned to Harvard as a research fellow in surgery in 1986. He stayed there for 14 years, rising to assistant professor of surgery and then associate professor. He also earned a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard’s School of Public Health and served as associate program director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s (BWH) Clinical Research Center, Chief of BWH’s Metabolic service and Director of the Laboratory for Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition. Jacobs left Harvard in 2000 to join the faculty at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska, where he served as the Arnold W. Lempka Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the surgery department. He stayed at Creighton until moving to Durham where he is now the David C. Sabiston, Jr. Professor of Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine and Surgeon-in-Chief at Duke University Hospital. As the newly elected Chair of the PDC Board of Managers, our 1000+ member physician organization, Jacobs is a key decision-maker for Duke’s multidisciplinary faculty group practice.

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