Duke Leadership Academy Scholars Profile

Doreen Matters

Title: Program Director
Location:
Senior Management Area: School of Nursing
Class Year: 2019

Bio:
Doreen joined the Duke Elder/Family Caregiver Training
Center (DEFT) in August 2016. She comes to the Center
after twelve years at the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI),
where she served as the director of annual fund and board
relations before accepting the position of administrator
of external relations for the Duke Cancer Patient Support
Program in 2011. While at DCI she had the privilege to
work with inter-professional teams, program benefactors
and most importantly, and most rewarding, patients and
families. At the DEFT Center, Doreen provides leadership
in the strategic development, implementation, management
and evaluation of all operational, communication and
marketing processes. She provides budgetary oversight and
acts as the DEFT Center's advisory board liaison. Her
commitment to the mission of the DEFT Center is due in
part to her experience for nine years as a caregiver to
her mother, who lost her battle with Alzheimer's Disease
in 2015.