Featured academics
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Mary E. Klotman
A physician scientist who studies how HIV persists in and damages kidney tissue, Klotman leads one of the largest US academic medical schools. As dean and executive vice president she steers Duke Health's research enterprise, connecting virology, vaccine science and clinical care across thousands of investigators and international collaborations.
Adrian F. Hernandez
A cardiologist with more than 900 publications, Hernandez directs the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the world's largest academic clinical research organisation. He has led landmark multicentre cardiovascular and COVID-19 trials, pioneering pragmatic and decentralised study designs that let health systems, industry and patients generate evidence together at national scale.
Ryan J. Shaw
Shaw founded Duke's Health Innovation Lab and now serves as the health system's first Chief Nurse Innovation Officer. His research embeds mobile and remote monitoring technologies into chronic disease care, bringing nurses, engineers and clinicians together to test virtual care models that have been evaluated in large pragmatic randomised trials.