Faculty

Ralph Corey, MD - HYC Director | Christopher Woods, MD - HYC Co-Director | John Hamilton, MD
John Bartlett, MD | Nathan Thielman, MD | Vance Fowler, MD | David Walmer, MD
Carol Dukes Hamilton, MD | J. Brice Weinberg MD | Barth Reller MD | John Crump MD
Kathleen Clem, MD | Truls Ostbye, MD, PhD | Kathryn Whetten, PhD | Dennis Clements, MD, PhD
Cheryl Baker, MD

Staff

Cynthia Binanay, RN, BSN, MA - HYC Program Director | Cecelia Pezdek - Global Health Residency Program Coordinator | Carlee Reimer - HYC Program Assistant

Carol Dukes Hamilton, M.D.

is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. She graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine and completed Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases training at Duke in 1991. She has won numerous teaching awards, and was honored with the Joseph C Greenfield Faculty Award for Mentoring in 2001. Her clinical practice is composed of patients with HIV/AIDS and patients with mycobacterial infection, including tuberculosis, pulmonary and disseminated MAC/MAI, as well as general infectious diseases consultation.   Since July 2001, Dr. Hamilton has served as the North Carolina TB Control Medical Director, having served as Chairman of the North Carolina TB Medical Advisory Committee and medical consultant for the state TB Control Program for the previous 5 years.   She also served as Chairman of the Antibiotic Decision Support Team at Duke from 1996-2000; in that role she designed interventions to optimize antibiotic use at Duke Hospital.

Dr. Hamilton was invited to the Duke University Medical Center faculty, in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases in July 1991.   She was promoted to Assistant Professor of Medicine in January 1994, and Associate Professor with Tenure in 2004.   She is board certified in Internal Medicine (1988) and Infectious Diseases (1991 and 2000).   She enjoys teaching medical students, residents and fellows in the classroom and on the hospital wards, as well as mentoring them in clinical research projects.   She was awarded an NIH K24 Award in July 2004 to support ongoing mentoring and clinical research activities.

Dr. Hamilton has been able to pursue her interest in international health in a number of settings.   As an Internal Medicine Resident at Duke, she spent 3 months doing clinical work at Mutambara Medical Center in eastern Zimbabwe.   As an Infectious Diseases fellow, in 1989, she spent 4 months doing patient care and clinical research in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.   She served as a Duke Teaching and Clinical consultant at King Faisal Hospital in Riyaad, Saudi Arabia in 1995.   She has had the opportunity to return to Dar and more recently to Moshi, Tanzania, where she has continued to pursue research opportunities with colleagues there.   She is co-Principal Investigator in Duke's NIH-funded ISAAC studies of TB and other opportunistic infections in Moshi, Tanzania.  

Dr. Hamilton's major research interest centers on tuberculosis in humans, and is involved in numerous clinical research activities that aim to improve treatment and prevention of TB, including TB and HIV/AIDS co-infection.   She is the site Principal Investigator for CDC-funded TB Trials Consortium research, and co-Principal Investigator for TB Epidemiologic Consortium studies.   She and Dr. William K. Scott of the Center for Human Genetics are enrolling North and South Carolina TB patients into an NIH R01-funded study of "Genetic Susceptibility to TB".   In September 2004 she received funding from the NIH Roadmap initiative to work with the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the TB Trials Consortium and the CDC to study ways to enhance patient recruitment and retention in clinical trials in US public health clinics.