“One of the great things about choosing the Presidential Award winners is that you learn about all the jobs that need to be done by people to make this university what it is,” Brodhead told the winners and their guests at the Presidential...by Beverly Schieman

Brooke Berson has a passion for safety that has literally kept her up at night.

As director of Clinical Resource Management, part of her job is to keep tabs on the safety of any product used at the patient’s bedside, from linens to gauze to central lines. Her goal is to make sure no recalled medical supply lasts a day at Duke.

In 2005, she helped initiate the use of a Web-based recall system that alerts Duke...