School of Medicine Institutes, Buildings and Facilities
Duke University School of Medicine
The School of Medicine comprises eight basic departments, eighteen clinical departments, and numerous centers and institutes (several of which are highlighted below) that promote cross-institutional, multidisciplinary efforts designed to harness strengths and leverage knowledge to make significant contributions to science, medicine, and human health.
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
Duke-NUS is Singapore’s first and only medical school, combining the unique medical education curriculum at Duke with the academic rigor and rich resources offered by the National University of Singapore (NUS). It offers students an enriching and innovative educational experience. Graduates of the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program are awarded a joint MD degree by Duke and NUS. The website for Duke- NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore is duke-nus.edu.sg.
Duke Human Vaccine Institute
The Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) has established a place of national and international leadership in the fight against major infectious diseases including HIV, Influenza, and COVID-19. DHVI is a pioneer in emerging infections and biodefense research. DHVI investigators continue to make significant contributions to overcome global health challenges on behalf of society.
Duke Cancer Institute
The Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) unites hundreds of cancer physicians, researchers, educators, and staff under a shared administrative structure to accelerate research advances related to cancer and improve Duke’s ability to translate these discoveries into the most advanced cancer care for patients. In 2022, the DCI celebrated its fiftieth Anniversary as a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated “comprehensive cancer center.” NCI-Designated Cancer Centers are recognized for their scientific leadership, resources, and the depth and breadth of their research in basic, clinical, and/or population science.
Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
The CTSI serves as the administrative hub for Duke’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), integrating a variety of services and resources essential to advancing translational science across the university. CTSI leverages Duke's extensive research resources and fosters collaborations to build the infrastructure, education, and support needed to advance promising ideas from concept, through development and testing, to patient care.With more than 100 faculty and 95 staff, CTSI spans the full spectrum of translational science—from early-stage laboratory research to clinical trials and the implementation of innovations in healthcare and community settings. Supported by the NIH CTSA and Duke Health, CTSI accelerates real-world research with targeted funding, cutting-edge resources, and collaborative partnerships nationwide.
Global Health Institute
Duke’s Global Health Institute (DGHI) is a university-wide effort to address health disparities worldwide through multidisciplinary research, education, policy engagement, and service. DGHI’s education, research, and capacity building initiatives are built on a strong network of partnerships with institutions around the world.
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Known for conducting groundbreaking multi-national clinical trials, managing major national patient registries, and performing landmark outcomes research, the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) conducts research that spans multiple disciplines, from pediatrics to geriatrics, primary care to subspecialty medicine, and genomics to proteomics. The largest academic research organization in the world, DCRI is devoted to conducting innovative, multi-center clinical research with a mission to develop and share knowledge that improves the care of patients.
Duke University Hospital
Duke University Hospital is consistently rated as one of the best in the United States and is known around the world for its outstanding care and groundbreaking research. Duke University Hospital has 1,062 inpatient beds and offers comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, including a regional emergency/trauma center; a major surgery suite containing 51 operating rooms; an endosurgery center; an ambulatory surgery center with nine operating rooms, and an extensive diagnostic and interventional radiology area.
For 2024-2025, U.S. News and World Report ranked Duke University Hospital the best hospital in North Carolina, with national rankings in 11 adult specialties: cancer; cardiology & heart surgery; ear, nose & throat; gastroenterology & GI surgery; geriatrics; neurology & neurosurgery; obstetrics & gynecology; ophthalmology; orthopedics; pulmonology & lung surgery, and urology. Duke University Hospital is also nationally ranked in 10 pediatric specialties..
Duke University Hospital is approved for residency by the American Medical Association, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and is accredited by the Joint Commission. In addition to its hospitals, Duke Health has an extensive, geographically dispersed network of outpatient facilities that include primary care offices, urgent care centers, multi-specialty clinics, and outpatient surgery centers.
Durham VA Health Care System
Since 1953, Durham VA Health Care System (DVAHCS) has been improving the health of men and women who have so proudly served our nation. Services are available to more than 200,000 Veterans living in a 27-county area of central and eastern North Carolina.
The DVAHCS offers health care services at 11 locations: the Durham VA Medical Center and 10 community-based outpatient clinics in Raleigh, Durham, Greenville, Morehead City, and Wake County. Outpatient clinics include two specialty clinics at Brier Creek for dialysis and blind rehabilitation. The DVAHCS provides general and specialty medical, surgical, and psychiatric services. It serves as a major referral center for North Carolina, southern Virginia, northern South Carolina, southern West Virginia, and eastern Tennessee.
The medical center has 151 operating beds and is a regional center for radiation therapy, neurological disorders, therapeutic endoscopy, and other special procedures. In addition, it serves as a referral center for high-risk open-heart surgery cases, angioplasty, and hemodynamic cardiac catheterization. The 100-bed Community Living Center (CLC) is reflective of an ongoing emphasis on wellness, preservation of functions, and rehabilitation.
The DVAHCS has five national centers of excellence in primary care, mental health, epidemiology, geriatrics, and epilepsy, as well as several other nationally recognized programs including cardiovascular and diabetes care and telehealth.
For additional information, visit va.gov/durham-health-care.
Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital
Located just one mile west of the main Duke University Hospital Campus, Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital provides outpatient services for children with genetic, metabolic, endocrine, neurologic, orthopedic, gastrointestinal, and neurodevelopmental disorders. On-site services include physical and occupational therapy and speech pathology. Additional multidisciplinary clinics are at that site.
Duke Regional Hospital
Duke Regional Hospital offers the personal touch of a community hospital while serving as an essential arm of internationally recognized Duke University Health System.
Duke Regional has served Durham, Orange, Person, Granville, and Alamance counties and beyond for more than 45 years. The hospital has more than 3,500 employees who provide outstanding medical care with compassionate, personalized service in a comfortable community hospital setting. It is a place of learning and acceptance for team members just starting their careers, as well as an institution of family culture and professional development for employees who have served in health care for decades.
Duke Regional has 388 inpatient beds and offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical, and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight loss surgery, women's services, and heart and vascular services. The hospital also offers care at the Duke Rehabilitation Institute, Davis Ambulatory Surgical Center, Duke Ambulatory Surgery Center Arringdon, Health Services Center, and Duke Behavioral Health Center North Durham.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Duke Regional Hospital No. 9 in North Carolina and No. 4 in the Raleigh-Durham area for 2024-25. Duke Regional is a Joint Commission-accredited and Magnet-designated hospital.
For additional information, visit dukehealth.org/hospitals/duke-regional-hospital/about.
Duke Raleigh Hospital, a Campus of Duke University Hospital
Duke Raleigh Hospital provides a patient-friendly setting in the hospital’s North Pavilion, South Pavilion, or clinics. Duke Raleigh Hospital has been part of Duke Health since 1998 and has served Wake County for more than 35 years. It employs more than 2,000 people.
The hospital has 204 inpatient beds and offers a comprehensive array of services, including, cancer care, cardiovascular care, neuroscience, advanced gastrointestinal care, and wound healing. It also maintains laboratory and imaging services, a pain clinic, 24/7 emergency care, community outreach, and education programs.
For 2024-2025, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Duke Raleigh campus as high performing in geriatrics and pulmonary & lung surgery and in five common adult procedures/conditions: heart failure, kidney failure, diabetes, lung cancer surgery, and colon cancer surgery.
For more information, call (919) 862-5848 or visit dukehealth.org/hospitals/duke-raleigh-hospital.
Duke Health Lake Norman Hospital
Duke Health Lake Norman Hospital has been serving the health care needs of the greater Lake Norman area, Iredell, and surrounding counties, since 1926.
In 2025, Duke Health acquired the 123-bed acute-care hospital formerly known as Lake Norman Regional Medical Center. The Lake Norman community now has access to Duke Health's broad array of services.
The medical campus includes 24-hour emergency medicine, a weight loss surgery center, women's services, the Stork's Landing Maternity Center, cardiology, and surgical services. It also includes an orthopaedic specialty center, an outpatient imaging center, and an outpatient surgery center.
Other Hospitals
Various cooperative teaching and training programs are available for medical and allied health professional students and house staff at other hospitals to include Duke University Hospital, Durham Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Duke Regional Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, and Central Regional Hospital in Butner, North Carolina.
Medical Center and Health System Buildings and Facilities
The more than 100 buildings and additions which make up Duke's medical education, research, and patient care facilities are located on approximately 200 acres, mostly on or near the West Campus of Duke University. There are four major zones on/near Duke Campus, but multiple clinics and other facilities are off campus in other Durham sites or nearby cities.
The Clinic Zone is contiguous with the main quadrangle of the university and consists of the following: Duke Clinic—a multi-building contiguous building complex, including: Clinic Reception Building—Entrance lobby, outpatient clinics, food court, and amphitheater; Edwin A. Morris Building— Outpatient clinics, diagnostic, treatment, and support services, Departments of Radiation Oncology, Surgery, Urology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Medicine and Duke Cancer Institute administration, departmental research and offices; Davison Building—Hospital Pharmacy offices; Departments of Pathology and Brain Imaging & Analysis administration, research education space and offices; Duke Medicine and Health System Administration, and School Medicine Administration; Original Hospital, 1940 and 1957 Additions—Outpatient clinics, diagnostic, treatment, and support services including: clinical laboratories, imaging, pharmacy, Departments of Dermatology, Family Medicine & Community Health; Medicine, Neurology, Orthopedics, Pathology, Radiation Oncology, Anesthesiology, Neurosurgery, and Heart Center offices; Baker House—Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Anesthesiology, Medicine, Neurosurgery/Neuro-Oncology program, and Surgery administration, clinical support services; offices for pastoral care and counseling; Barnes Woodhall Building—Duke Store, Nursing offices, Clinical Research unit/Duke Early Phase Clinical Research Unit (DEPRU), Departments of Psychiatry, Radiology, Radiation Oncology and diagnostic, treatment, and support services and research and offices, PRMO offices, outpatient pharmacy, preoperative screening, and hospital administration; Diagnostic and Treatment #3 Building—Human Resources offices, Departments of Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Psychiatry, Surgery, and research support services and offices; Ewald W. Busse Building—Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, diagnostic, treatment, and support services, and offices; Eugene A. Stead Building— Clinical Research Center/Duke Early Phase Clinical Research Unit (DEPRU)Departments of Surgery, Neurosurgery, Medicine and Duke Cancer Institute research and offices; Clinical Research II—Clinical Research Center/Duke Early Phase Clinical Research Unit (DEPRU) Departments of Surgery, Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Psychiatry research and offices, hyperbaric medicine unit. Other buildings within The Clinic Zone also includes Marshall Pickens Building—Family Medicine Clinics; Parking Garage I (Duke Clinic Garage); and the Cancer Center facility: Departments of Psychiatry, Radiation Oncology, Neurosurgery, Duke Cancer Institute; diagnostic, treatment, and support services.
The Hospital Zone consists of the following buildings: Duke Hospital— a multi-building contiguous building complex including:
Duke Hospital Anlyan Tower and Ancillary Building—Inpatient care units, diagnostic, treatment, and support services including surgical suite, cath labs, emergency department, labor and delivery suite, operating and recovery suite, full-term nursery, radiology, clinical laboratories, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, the departments of Anesthesiology, Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Orthopedics, Heart Center, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Radiology, Surgery offices; MRI facilities and Brain Imaging and Analysis facility; and Children’s Health Center—Department of Brain Imaging and Analysis and Children’s clinics, diagnostic, treatment and support services, Departments of Radiology, Medicine, Population Health Sciences, Anesthesiology, Pediatrics administrative offices, and the Duke Central Tower – inpatient bed units. The Hospital zone also includes Duke Eye Ctr Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Building (Eye Center)—Clinical Labs; Ophthalmology clinics, diagnostic, treatment, and support services including: operating rooms, recovery, research, and offices; Duke Eye Ctr Albert Eye Research Institute—Ophthalmology faculty offices and research space, Neurobiology, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute and Pediatrics Ophthalmology Clinic; Duke Eye Ctr Hudson Eye Building—Department of Ophthalmology administration; Clinical Labs; Duke Eye clinics; The Lodge Annex—Hospital Sleep Lab; Civitan Building—Clinics and offices for the Departments of Psychiatry. Hanes House—Duke Hospital Transplant offices, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, and Surgery administrative and departmental offices, teaching facilities; Christine S. Pearson School of Nursing—School of Nursing offices and educational facilities; Interprofessional Education (IPE) Building: Physical Therapy and Nursing education; Seeley G. Mudd Communications and Library— Medical Center Library, Medical Center Commons, Medical Education, Trent Center for BHHM, Departments of Surgery, Medicine, Clinical & Translation Science Institute and Duke Cancer Institute offices; Parking Garage II (Hospital Garage) and PGII Ofc area—House Staff and Exercise Facility, and Nursing Recruitment and the Duke Medicine Pavilion— Inpatient care units, diagnostic, treatment, and support services including operating and recovery, radiology, Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Clinical Labs, iMRI, and iCT suites; and the Trent Semans Center for Health Education—Central teaching facilities, School of Medicine admissions, registrar, and financial aid.
The Research Zone consists of the following: Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Research Building for Neurobiology—Department of Neurobiology, Radiology, Psychiatry, Neurosurgery and Neurology administration, departmental research and offices; Nanaline H. Duke Building— Departments of Biochemistry, Dermatology, Neurobiology and Cell Biology administration, departmental research and offices; Alex H. Sands Building— Departments of Anesthesiology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Medicine, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Psychiatry, Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Neurosurgery research and offices; Edwin L. Jones Building—Departments of Immunology, Cell Biology, Surgery, Psychiatry, Integrative Immunobiology, Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology, and Molecular Genetics & Microbiology administration, departmental research and offices; Medical Sciences Research Building—Departments of Medicine, Pathology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Radiation Oncology, Surgery, Urology and Duke Cancer Institute research and offices; Medical Sciences Research Building-II—Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Duke Clinical Research Institute and Duke Human Vaccine Institute research and offices: Medical Sciences Research Building-III—School of Medicine space; Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Dermatology, Basic Science Admin, Neurology, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Integrative Immunobiology, Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, Clinical & Translation Science Institute, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, and Anesthesiology; Clinical and Research Laboratory Building—Departments of Cell Biology, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Integrative Immunobiology, Pediatrics, Surgery and Medicine research and offices; Leon Levine Science Research Center, section C—Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Departments of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Medicine, Radiation Oncology, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Biochemistry, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Radiology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Surgery, , Head & Neck Surgery Communications Science, and Cell Biology , research and offices; Surgical Oncology Research Building; Environmental Safety Building; Research Park Buildings 1, 2, 3 and 4—Departments of Surgery, Medicine, Neurobiology, Radiology, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, Anesthesiology, Duke Global Health Institute research and offices, and Occupational and environmental safety; and Clinical Labs; Vivarium & Surgical Research Pavilion; Cancer Center Isolation Facility; Snyderman Genome Science Research Building; and Genome Science Research Building-II—Departments of Anesthesiology, Neurobiology, Surgery, Duke Cancer Institute; Pathology, Radiation Oncology, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Dermatology, Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Neuroscience, Medicine, and Pediatrics genomic science research; and the Global Health Research Building—DHVI research and offices.
The West Zone consists of the Lenox Baker Hospital—Clinics, diagnostic, treatment, and support services, Departments of Pediatrics and Orthopedics offices; Center for Living Campus consists of five buildings including Sarah Stedman Nutrition Center—Duke Molecular Physiology Institute (DMPI) offices; Andrew Wallace Clinic Building (original and 2015 addition)—Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine clinics, diagnostic, treatment, and support services; PepsiCo Fitness Center—Exercise and physical therapy facilities including indoor track, exercise equipment, swimming pool; Aesthetic Services and Dermatologic Surgery Clinic— Clinics, diagnostic treatment, and support services; Departments of Surgery and Duke Molecular Physiology Institute and CFL administrative offices; and Duke Integrative Medicine—treatment facility.
The North Campus Zone consists of the following buildings: North Pavilion—Ambulatory Surgery Center, Adult, and Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant, Department of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Anesthesiology, Clinical & Translational Science Institute, Medicine, Marcus Center Cellular Cures, Duke Cancer Institute offices, and Nursing administration; and Elder Street Buildings—Occupational and environmental safety, and medical center engineering and operations offices.