We all were fortunate to have Dr. Joe Selby, Executive Director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), visit Duke and spend time with fellows and faculty alike. He sat down for a friendly, informal conversation with fellows on Monday for lunch, then gave Grand Rounds on the future of comparative effectiveness research and how PCORI will play an integral role. Finally he also gave the DCRI Grand rounds last week, talking about exciting changes to clinical research in the future.

Weng Wong, DCRI Research Fellow, discusses with Darren McGuire, Associate professor of Medicine at UT Southwestern, his clinical research training as a DCRI fellow, future of cardiovascular research on diabetic agents and the future of regulation from the FDA.

Darren McGuire also gave an excellent Grand Rounds on cardiovascular research in diabetes, the impact of diabetes on the US population, new oral therapies, and FDA regulation of these agents, and those coming in the future.

Dr. Jacob Schroder, Duke’s newest CT surgery faculty member, gives a great Grand Rounds on ECMO at Duke and the initiation of an official ECMO program.

Attached are references that might add to his excellent presentation:

ECMO in ARDS

ECMO in Cardiogenic shock

Drs. Robi Goswami and Ashwani Sastry discuss their research over the past two years as Duke Cardiology fellows.

Dr. Goswami on “Duke Biomedical Engineering and Ultrasound: Adding a Virtual Feel to Echo.”

Dr. Sastry on “Regulation of Cardiovascular Devices: An FDA Fellow Perspective.”

Matt Sherwood, DCRI fellow, talks to Gwen Bernacki, cofellow at DCRI, about the newly formed ACC geriatric Council. Gwen enumerates their mission, and how participation as the Fellow-in-training representative to the council has been a privilege she much enjoys during her fellowship.

Drs. Kenneth Mahaffey, Connie Hess, and Akshay Bagai present a recap of the 2013 ACC Scientific Session.