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Veterans may be impacted by Non-VA construction near the CLAYTON CLINIC. Construction may be blocking the entrance off of Hwy US 70 business.  Clinic may be accessed from the rear entrance off Atkinson St and S. Moore Street (S. Moore St can be accessed from US70 business at the traffic light).

K. Schmader

Kenneth Schmader MD

Director of the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center's Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) and the Associate Chief of Staff for Geriatrics and Extended Care

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Kenneth E. Schmader, M.D., is Director of the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center's Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) and the Associate Chief of Staff for Geriatrics and Extended Care.

He is also Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, and Chief of the Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, completed an internal medicine residency and Chief Residency at the University of Wisconsin, and Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at Duke University and Durham VA Medical Centers.  Dr. Schmader's area of research is herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), vaccines, infections and drugs in older adults. He conducts pre-clinical, clinical trials and observational studies of herpes zoster, influenza, pneumococcal vaccines and infections funded by grants from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), VA Office of Research and Development, Hartford Foundation and Industry sources.  He serves on the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) working group on the herpes zoster vaccine, influenza vaccine and general adult immunization guidelines and is the American Geriatrics Society liaison to the ACIP.

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