Voices of Duke Health Duke Department of Medicine

Robert Califf, MD, spent the majority of his career as a physician, administrator, leader, and innovator at Duke University. He's moved on to a job at Verily Life Sciences and Google Health, but we caught up with him to ask about his early work and how it prepared him to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

Dr. Jack Hughes celebrated his 100th birthday in November 2019, so he he had a lot to share with our oral historian, Joseph O'Connell. Here Dr. Hughes talks about what inspired him to a long career in urology in Durham, North Carolina, and about his tour of duty as a Navy medic during World War II. Read more about Dr. Hughes at https://forestduke.org/d-day-memories-from-a-survivor/

We're happy to announce that plans for season 2 are in the works! In the meantime, we thought Voices of Duke Health listeners might enjoy this vignette about Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD, produced by Joseph O'Connell.

As a teenager, Dr. Andrews brought some unusual house guests back to her parents' home in upstate New York: 30 live horseshoe crabs. In this bonus episode, Andrews looks back on her early formation as a physician-scientist and her journey to becoming the first woman dean of a top ten medical school.

Dr. David Zaas was diagnosed with leukemia on Valentine's Day of 2017.

In the weeks that followed, he faced many challenges—breaking the news to his sons, undergoing chemotherapy, and learning how to be a patient.

David Zaas, MD, MBA is president of Duke Raleigh Hospital and associate professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine. Aimee Zaas, MD, MHS, is the director of the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program and associate professor of Medicine and of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology.

Find the full transcript at www.listeningbooth.info.

Stay tuned for the full conversation, available Thursday, March 21.

Tell Me Something Good—that’s the name of a weekly email Emily Depetris sends to her coworkers in the pediatric cardiac ICU.

In the PCICU, they take care of really sick kids. So Emily wanted to give the PCICU staff a weekly reminder of the good things that come from their work—in the form of pictures of their patients playing in the park, dressing up for Halloween, and graduating from high school.

Emily is joined by Anne Schmelzer, a nurse in the PCICU, to talk about why she started Tell Me Something Good, and how it’s brought joy and inspiration to the staff.

Find the full transcript at www.listeningbooth.info.