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Photo, Arwen Long
Duke
Endowment Gives $50 Million For Medical Education Facility,
Pediatric Care: Largest Gift Ever To Duke University Medical
Center
On
Monday, April 7, 2008, Duke President Richard H. Brodhead
and Chancellor for Health Affairs Victor J. Dzau announced
a $50
million gift
to Duke University Medical Center from the Duke Endowment
of Charlotte. The $50 million gift, the largest single gift
ever received by the medical center, will be used for construction
of a medical education building and development of a
state-of-the-art inpatient pediatric facility.
Plans
mark $35 million of the gift for construction of a School
of Medicine Education Center. The building will include
classrooms, lecture halls, gathering areas with moveable
walls and seating to accommodate groups of up to 500 people,
administrative offices, study and lounge areas for students,
a café and bookstore, and possibly a fitness center.
"It
is ... increasingly important to have a facility that can
house initiatives such as simulation labs and provide space
for the team-based learning programs that are rapidly replacing
traditional lecture-based learning," said Nancy Andrews,
MD, PhD, dean of the Duke University School of Medicine.
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Upcoming
- Summer
lunch socials: Thursdays, 12 noon, 107 Seeley
Mudd Building
- No
lunch on July 3. The next Thursday lunch is scheduled
for July 10.
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Nancy
Andrews —new School of Medicine dean brings extensive
MSTP experience, new energy, fresh ideas, and expanded
resources to
Duke
Nancy
C. Andrews, MD, PhD
Dean, School of Medicine
Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs
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New
School of Medicine dean, Nancy C. Andrews, 1999 to 2003
director of the Harvard-MIT MD/PhD Program and 2003 to 2007
Harvard Medical School dean for Basic Sciences and Graduate
Studies, brings to Duke a deep commitment to MD/PhD education.
Dean Andrews, the first woman to lead one of the nation's
top ten medical schools, assumed her Duke position in October
2007. She is meeting periodically with the faculty executive
committee of the Duke MSTP steering committee and is pumping
new energy, fresh ideas, and expanded resources into the
Duke program. Duke—particularly Duke MSTP—is
fortunate in its new leadship and enthusiastically welcomes
Dean Andrews.
Dr.
Andrews, also a professor in the departments of Pediatrics
and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, received her BS and
MS degrees in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from
Yale University, her PhD in Biology from MIT and her MD
from Harvard Medical School. She completed an internship
and residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital
Boston, and a Hematology/Oncology fellowship at Children’s
Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Dean Andrews, an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute from 1993 to 2006, maintains an active NIH-funded
research laboratory studying mouse models of human diseases.
She was the George Richards Minot Professor of Pediatrics
at Harvard, Senior Associate in Medicine at the Children’s
Hospital Boston, a Distinguished Physician of the Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute, and an attending physician in hematology
and oncology at Children’s Hospital until 2003. She
has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 16 book
chapters, has received many awards and honors for her research—including
membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academies and in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences—and
is president-elect of the American Society of Clinical Investigation.
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