 Nikki Vangsnes Associate Director for Programs and Administration Since it's founding in 1999, Nikki Vangsnes has served as the Associate Director of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine. She works closely with Center faculty and faculty associates on the development of new program initiatives and is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Center's educational and research activities. She has provided leadership for a variety of interdisciplinary efforts at the Center, among them the Humanities and Medicine Lecture Series; a national poetry and medicine conference, Vital Signs, Vital Lines; the symposium Caring Enough: Confronting the Crisis of Access to Healthcare; and recently, an international workshop on Obstetric Fistula: Maternal Birth Trauma in the Developing World. She also serves as the Project Director of the Policy, Ethics and Law Core of the Southeast Regional Center of Excellence for Emerging Infections and Biodefense (SERCEB), a regional consortium of academic institutions in the Southeast including Duke. Prior to coming to Duke, Nikki worked for twelve years in HIV and STD prevention and served for six years as the associate director of the US Centers for Disease Control’s National AIDS Hotline run by the American Social Health Association (ASHA). In this position, she oversaw training and operations of the nation's largest health information call center which addressed HIV/AIDS concerns of more than a million callers annually. Nikki also represented ASHA on a consortium of national organizations committed to sexual health education and STD prevention and served as liaison to the CDC National AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service (ACTIS).  |