Rebecca Lumsden MD
Medical Instructor, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North CarolinaDr. Lumsden is an Internist and Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine at Duke University (Durham, NC). She completed her medical training at University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester, MA) and residency training Internal Medicine and Global Health at Duke University in 2020. Her research focuses on women’s health, specifically on the link between pregnancy and cardiovascular disease and strategies for early cardiovascular disease prevention through linkage and retention to care in the peripartum period. She has ongoing research in rural Kenya using novel home blood pressure monitoring to describe rates of postpartum hypertension among women with preeclampsia in rural Kenya. She is an active member of the Duke Obstetric-Medicine Group (OMG), a multidisciplinary group of faculty from the Department of Medicine and Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology who focus on improving care delivery to peripartum women with complex medical conditions at Duke.
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Dr. Lumsden has no disclosures to report.