Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke
As of 2022 · Last known relationship
Monique Anderson Starks is a Duke cardiologist, associate professor of medicine, and cardiac-arrest researcher focused on making lifesaving treatment reach patients faster. She earned her M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 2006, completed internal medicine residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center from 2006 to 2009, and trained in cardiology at Duke University Medical Center from 2009 to 2013. She has been a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute since 2013 and has served as an associate professor since 2022. Her work spans general cardiology, out-of-hospital cardiac-arrest survival, bystander CPR, AED access, and health-care systems. She leads or co-leads studies and grants examining drone-delivered AED networks, community cardiac-arrest interventions, and cardiovascular risks among African Americans.
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Training includes Cardiology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center, Internal Medicine residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Tennessee), M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke, plus 6 more records.
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CCC: The Regional Approaches to Cardiovascular Emergencies- Cardiac ARreSt (RACE-CARS) Cluster-Randomized Trial 1/2[10]
2020 to 2027
Developing and testing drone-delivered AEDs for cardiac arrests in rural America[10]
2023 to 2027
Evaluation of the requirements and critical features of a drone-deployed AED network to improve community-level survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest[10]
2020 to 2026
Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory Coordinating Center[8]
2012 to 2019
Publication: “American Heart Association Automated External Defibrillator Symposium: Summary and Recommendations.”[8]
From 2025
Publication: “Barriers to bystander interventions in suspected opioid-associated out-of-hospital cardiac arrests: A multiple methods study of 9-1-1 calls.”[8]
From 2025
Publication: “Correlation between hospital rates of survival to discharge and long-term survival for in-hospital cardiac arrest: Insights from Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation registry.”[8]
From 2024
Publication: “Differences in bystander CPR by patient, caller, and telecommunicator sex: a retrospective analysis of emergency calls.”[8]
From 2026
Publication: “Location of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: An Updated Analysis of Epidemiology, Emergency Response, and Outcomes.”[8]
From 2026
Publication: “Public access defibrillator locations and details in Forsyth County, North Carolina: Results of a telephone survey canvas of large businesses to facilitate out-of-hospital cardiac arrest treatment.”[8]
From 2024
Publication: “Public awareness of automated external defibrillator (AED)s and their location: Results of a cross-sectional survey in North Carolina.”[8]
From 2025
Publication: “Race and Sex Differences in the Association of Bystander CPR for Cardiac Arrest.”[8]
From 2024
Publication: “RAndomized Cluster Evaluation of Cardiac ARrest Systems (RACE-CARS) trial: Study rationale and design.”[8]
From 2024
Publication: “Response by Chan et al to Letters Regarding Article, "Race and Sex Differences in the Association of Bystander CPR for Cardiac Arrest".”[8]
From 2025
Religion, spirituality and cardiovascular disease risks among African Americans[8]
2017 to 2024
Research on drone networks capable of delivering AEDs to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest bystanders[11]