By Angela Spivey
The Dean’s Distinguished Research Series concluded on April 20 with lectures from Kimberly Johnson, MD, professor of medicine and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, and Lisa McElroy, MD, MS, assistant professor of surgery and population health sciences, and the Inaugural Onyekwere E. Akwari Endowed Professor in Surgery.
The two researchers discussed their work to understand health disparities and develop health system innovations to reduce them. Johnson studies these issues in end-of-life care, and McElroy in organ transplant. Read more from Duke University School of Medicine.