1998
Division of Emergency Medicine established with first Division Chief, Kathleen Clem
She served for 9 years at Duke as the first female Division Chief in the Department of Surgery.
2001
Emergency Medicine Residency gains ACGME approval
2002
First residency class begins training
Susan Promes is named Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency.
2002
Duke EM participates in its first funded research study and hires its first research staff
2005
The first class of Duke EM residents graduates
2007
Duke EM transitions from its previous practice location into its current footprint in Duke University Hospital
2007
Duke EM establishes partnerships in Sports Medicine, and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine fellowships
2007
First Duke Emergency Medicine faculty member receives the American College of Emergency Medicine National Faculty Teaching Award (Joshua Broder)
Additional faculty go on to receive this national award in 2015 (David Gordon), 2019 (national junior faculty award, Sreeja Natesan), and 2022 (national junior faculty award, John Purakal)
2007
Duke EM participates in its first multicenter NIH trial: ProCESS trial of septic shock therapy
The trial results are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
2009
Global Health Fellowship established
2011
First EM Global Health fellow graduates
2015
Duke EM receives its first NIH K Award
Addressing High Risk Alcohol Use Amongst Injury Patients in the Emergency Department, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center.
2016
Duke EM establishes the Research Resident Fellowship
2016
Duke EM establishes the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
2016
First Duke Emergency Medicine faculty member receives the Duke School of Medicine Master Clinician-Teacher Award (Joshua Broder)
Additional faculty receive the award in 2022 (David Gordon) and 2023 (Julian Hertz).
2019
Duke EM receives its first NIH U Award: Duke Pain Early-phase Research Clinical Center (PERCC)
2019
Duke EM faculty members promotes to Professor (Charles Gerardo)
2020
Duke EM receives its first NIH R01 Award
PRACT: A Pragmatic Randomized Adaptive Clinical Trial to Investigate Controlling Alcohol-related Harms in a Low-Income Setting; Emergency Department Brief Interventions in Tanzania
2021
Catherine Staton is the first Duke EM Associate Professor with Tenure
2021
Duke EM partners with the Duke Global Health Institute for the first time to inaugurate the GEMINI Research Center, a trans-institute Center
2022
Division of Emergency Medicine elevates to Department status in Duke’s School of Medicine
2022
Charles Gerardo becomes the first interim Department Chair
2022
The Department of EM establishes a Section of Translational Health Science
Comprising multidisciplinary research faculty led by Joao Vissoci