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 DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008
In Brief:
DukeMed Scholar Awards Fund Promising Research
Fitzpatrick, left; Peterson, center; and Pitt, right.
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R. Sanders “Sandy” Williams, MD’74, HS’77-’80, senior vice chancellor
for academic affairs, recently announced three new DukeMed
Scholars, an annual award to attract and support faculty whose work
shows great potential for advancing science and medicine.
The first
cohort of six DukeMed Scholars was announced in February 2007.
David Fitzpatrick, PhD’82, is a professor in the Department of Neurobiology.
His lab investigates the functional organization and development
of neural circuits within the primary visual cortex, providing new
insight into how the brain processes visual information.
Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH, HS’92-’95, is a professor of medicine in
the Division of Cardiology. His research focuses on the use of national
cardiovascular data registries for medical evidence development as
well as improving quality of care delivered in routine clinical practice.
Geoffrey Pitt, MD, PhD, came to Duke from a faculty position at
Columbia University in August of this year. A member of the faculty
in medicine and cardiology, he is particularly interested in inherited
cardiovascular diseases and arrhythmias. He studies the structure
and function of ion channels in the heart and brain and the role that
changes in the amount of intercellular calcium plays in turning these
channels on and off, with possible therapeutic applications in inherited
arrythmias and epilepsies.
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