Duke Acronyms
An ABC Guide to Duke - defining the many Duke-specific acronyms for the Duke community
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A
A&S: Arts & Sciences
AAAC: Alumni Admissions Advisory Committee
AAALAC: Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care
AAC: Academic Advising Center
AADS: Asian American & Diaspora Studies
AAHRPP: Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs
AAHVS: Art, Art History & Visual Studies
ABCDS: Advanced Bioalgorithm Clinical Decision Support (DUHS)
ABMT: Adult Bone Marrow Transplant
ABN: Advance Beneficiary Notification
AC: Academic Council or Audit Committee
ACA: Affordable Care Act (federal law)
ACC: Audit and Compliance Committee (of the Duke University Board of Trustees)
ACD: Automated Call Distribution
ACE: Analytics Center of Excellence (in DHTS)
ACE: The Rubenstein-Bing Student-Athlete Civic Engagement Program
ACH: Automated Clearing House
ACIR: Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility
ACL: Access Control List
ACNO: Associate Chief Nursing Officer
ACO: Accountable Care Organization
ACOI: Administrative Conflict of Interest
ACP: Advance Care Planning
AD: Active Directory
ADA: Americans with Disabilities Act (federal law)
ADF: American Dance Festival
ADFC: Adjusted Direct Fixed Cost
ADG: Administrative Development Group
ADIC: Adjusted Indirect Variable Cost
ADJ: Adjustment
ADP: Automated Data Processing
ADR: Alumni and Development Records
ADS: Application and Database Services (in OIT)
ADVANCE-UP: Academic DeVelopment, Advocacy, Networking, Coaching and Education for Underrepresented Populations (in SOM)
AE: Adverse Event (clinical research)
AED: Alumni Engagement and Development
AERI: Albert Eye Research Institute (at Duke Eye Center)
AES: IDX application Enhancement System
AFLG: Academic Financial Leadership Group
AFS: Andrew File System
AG: Academic Guide
AGI: Adjusted Gross Income
AGM: Advanced Grants Management
AHEAD: Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development
AHEC: Area Health Education Centers
AIICE: Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education (in Pratt)
AIM: Acute Infection Management
ALCOA: Attributable, Legible, Contemporaneous, Original & Accurate
ALICE: Academic Leadership, Innovation, and Collaborative Engagement (in SOM)
ALIS: Advanced Light Imaging & Spectroscopy
AMC: Academic Medical Center
AMES: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
AMI: Arts of the Moving Image (renamed Cinematic Arts)
AMP: Award Management Portal
AMP@D: Association for Mixed People at Duke
AMT: Award Management Team
ANSI: American National Standards Institute
AOC: Administrator on Call
AOR: Authorized Organizational Representative
A/P: Accounts Payable
APC: Ambulatory Payment Classification
APCR: Accounts Payable Check Request
APG: Ambulatory Payment Groups
API: Duke uses 3 API software systems: Time & Attendance, Staffing & Scheduling, and EdTrack
APM: Application Performance Management
APP: Advanced Practice Provider
APPLI: Advanced Practice Provider Leadership Institute
APT: Appointments, Promotions and Tenure
A/R: Accounts Receivable
ARC: Academic Resource Center
ARLG: Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (in DCRI)
ARO: Academic Research Organization
ARPM: Assistant Research Practice Manager
ASA: Accounting Systems Administration
ASC: Ambulatory Surgery Center
ASCE: American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASET: Antimicrobial Stewardship and Evaluation Team
ASIST: Advancing Scientific Integrity, Services and Training (in DOSI)
ASM: Administrative Systems Management
ATB: Aged Trial Balance
ATBS: Aged Trial Balance Summary
ATC: American Tobacco Campus or Athletic Trainer-Certified
Athena: (not an acronym) The Artificial Intelligence Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging Next-Generation Networks (in Pratt)
ATLAS: Adolescents Transitioning to Leadership and Success
AUDS: Academic, User and Device Support (in OIT)
AUTH: Authorization
AVP: Assistant Vice President or Associate Vice President
AVS: Address Verification System
AWN: Administrative Women's Network
B
B&B: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Department
B@D: Buy@Duke (Procurement program)
BAA: Business Associate Agreement
BaLLIR: Bashir Lab for Liver Imaging Research
BAN: Billing Account Number
BAR: IDX Billing & Accounts Receivable System
BAS: Building Automation System
BBP: Business-to-Business Procurement
BC: Bryan Center
BCBS: Blue Cross/Blue Shield
BCC: Blood Cancer Center (in DCI)
BCG: Biochemical Genetics Laboratory
BCMS: Business Continuity Management System
BCN: Batch Control Number
BCP: Business Continuity Plan
BERD: Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (CTSI Methods Core)
BF: Balance Forward
BFR: Budget and Financial Reporting (code)
BHSRC: Behavioral Health and Survey Research Core (in DCI)
BIA: Business Impact Analysis
BIAC: Duke-UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center (in SOM)
BIOS: Biomedical Interferometry Optics & Spectroscopy
BIRCWH: Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health
BME: Biomedical Engineering
BMT: Bone Marrow Transplant or Blood and Marrow Transplant
BMTL: Bone Marrow Transplant Laboratory
BO: Business Objects
BOD: Board of Directors (of Duke University Health System)
BOM: Board of Managers (of the Private Diagnostic Clinic, PLLC)
BOOST: Building Opportunities and Overtures in Science and Technology
BOT: Board of Trustees (of Duke University)
BPAs: Best Practice Advisories
BPS: Budget Planning and Simulation
BRISC: Behavioral Research Intervention Science Center (in DCRI)
BRPC: BioRepository and Precision Pathology Center
BSC: Balanced Scorecard
BSRC: Brain Stimulation Research Center
BSRT: Basic Science Research Track (in the CRTP)
C
C/A: Contractual Adjustment
C/AC: Compliance/Audit Committee (of the DUHS Board of Directors)
CA: Coverage Analysis
CAB: Community Advisory Board
CAC: College Advising Corps
CACHE: Collaborative for Advancing Clinical Health Equity (DUHS)
CADCE: Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship at Duke
CAEAS: Committee on Assessment of Educational and Administrative Support
CAGPM: Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine (in SOM)
CAGT: Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies (in Pratt)
CAH: Critical Asian Humanities
CALS: Continuous Acquisition and Life Cycle Support
CAMC: Central Administration Management Center
CAMD: Center for Autonomous Materials Design (in Pratt)
CAMRD: Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Development
CAMT: Campus Award Management Team
CAP: Center for Advanced Practice or Certified Administration Professional
CAPA: Corrective and Preventative Action
CAPS: Counseling and Psychological Services
CARADITE: Center for Applied Research and Design in Transformative Education
CARCO: Chief Audit, Risk and Compliance Officer
CARD: Clinical Account Request Database
CARL: Clinical and Research Laboratory Building
CAS: Cost Accounting Standards
CASE: Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (in Fuqua)
CAST: Center for Adolescent & Young Adult Substance Use Treatment (in SOM)
CAVD: Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (in DHVI)
CBB: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
CBC: Duke Center for Blood Conservation
CBO: Central Business Office
CBR: Credit Balance Resolution
CBRN: Community-Based Research Network
CBSF: Cooperative Baptist Student Fellowship
CBT: Computer-Based Training
CBTE: Center for Biomolecular & Tissue Engineering (in Pratt)
CBU: Clinical Business Unit
CC: Cost Center
CCBB: Carolinas Cord Blood Bank
CCE: Common Clinical Editor (online grouper)
CCF: Cell Culture Facility or Central Core Facility
CCFG: Climate Change Fundraisers Group
CCFP: Center for Child and Family Policy (in Sanford)
CCITSE: Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation
CCN: Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (in DIBS)
CCO: Chief Compliance Officer
CCOW: Common Clinical Object Working Group
CCPS: Cancer Control Population Science
CCS: Community Consult Studio
CCT: Center for Computational Thinking
CCU: Coronary Care Unit
CCWS: Common Clinical Workstation
CDA: Confidential Disclosure Agreement or Collaborative Development Awards
CDE: Clinical Data Editor (old online grouper)
CDE: Common Desktop Environment
CDG: Clinical Development Group
CDM: Charge Description Master File
CDN: Controlled Directory Number
CDO: Chief Digital Officer or Care Delivery Organization
CDR: Clinical Data Repository
CDRN: Clinical Data Research Networks (in CTSI)
CDS: Center for Documentary Studies or Clinical Decision Support
CDSA: Compute & Data Services Alliance for Research
CDSS: Centralized Device and Services Support (in OIT)
CDU: Cardiac Diagnostic Unit
CDVS: Center for Data and Visualization Sciences
CE: Continuing Education
CEAP: Certified Executive Assistant Professional
CEC: Clinical Events Committee or Clinical Endpoint Committee
CEE: Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEI: Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (in Fuqua)
CEINT: Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (in Pratt)
CEN: Clinical Encounter Number
CEnR: Community-Engaged Research
CEO: Chief Executive Officer
CEPD: Clinical Education and Professional Development
CERI: Community Engaged Research Initiative (CTSA)
CESP: Clinical Enterprise Strategic Plan
CFAR: Duke Center for AIDS Research or (U.S.) Center for AIDS Research (at NIH)
CFL: Center for Living
CFO: Chief Financial Officer
CFR: (U.S.) Code of Federal Regulations
cGCA: Clinical Grants and Contracts Administrator
CGGC: Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness (see GVCC)
CGMT: Campus Grants Management Team
CGNE: Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (in SON)
CHAMPUS: Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (federal)
CHAVD: Consortia for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (in DHVI)
CHAVI: Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology
CHAVI-ID: Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery
CHC: Children's Health Center
CHCL: Children's Health Center Laboratory
CHDI: Children's Health & Discovery Initiative
CHeRI: Climate & Health Research Initiative (SOM)
CHHC: Children's Hospital & Health Center
CHG: Center for Human Genetics
CHGV: Center for Human Genome Variation
CHIO: Chief Health Information Officer
CHM: Center for Health Measurement
CHP: Center for Precision Health (CTSI)
CHPIR: Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research
CHRO: Chief Human Resources Officer
CHSI: Center for Human Systems Immunology (in SOM)
CIBMTR: Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research
CICL: Center for International & Comparative Law (in the Law School)
CICS: Customer Information Control System
CIDDI: Center for Infectious Disease Diagnostics & Innovation
CIEMAS: Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (Fitzpatrick Center)
CIO: Chief Information Officer
CIOP: Center for Institutional & Organizational Performance (in the Law School)
cIRB: Central Institutional Review Board
CIRIUS: Hospital UB Claims Scrubber System
CISO: Chief Information Security Officer
CIT: Center for Instructional Technology (a/k/a 'Learning Innovation')
CITI: Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (research-related training program)
CIVICs: Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers (in DHVI)
CIVM: Center for In Vivo Microscopy (in Radiology)
CLA: Corporate License Agreement
CLACS: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
CLAFH: Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (in SON)
CLRP: Center on Law, Race & Politics (in the Law School)
CLSS: Clinical Laboratory Support Services
CM: Configuration Management
CMA: Center for Multicultural Affairs (in Student Affairs)
CMAC: Computational Media, Arts & Cultures
CMB: Cell and Molecular Biology
CMDB: Configuration Management Database
CME: Continuing Medical Education
CMF: Cash Management Fund
CMIO: Chief Medical Information Officer
CMIP: Center for Metamaterials & Integrated Plasmonics (in Pratt)
CMO: Chief Medical Officer
CMS: Content Management System or Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (a federal entity) or Comparative Medicine Specialist
CND: Center for Nursing Discovery (in SON)
CNO: Chief Nursing Officer
CNR: Center for Nursing Research (in SON)
COA: Clinical Outcome Assessment or Certified Ophthalmic Assistant
COB: Coordination of Benefits or Close of Business
COC: Conflict of Commitment or Certificate of Confidentiality
CODA: PDC General Ledger
COE: Center of Excellence
COI: Conflict of Interest
COIOC: Conflict of Interest Oversight Committee
COLE: (Fuqua/Coach K) Center on Leadership & Ethics
COMT: Certified Ophthalmic Medical Technologist
CON: Closeout Notifications System
CONTDAY: Daily job that builds the CTL-M schedule for the following day
COO: Chief Operating Officer or Campus Oversight Organization
COP: Community of Practice
COPAY: Co-payment
COS: Chief of Staff
COT: Certified Ophthalmic Technician
COTL: Close Out Task List
CPPAS: Computer Purchasing Program for Arts & Sciencesa
CPC: Campus Pantry Collaborative or Cancer Protocol Committee (now PRMC)
CPDC: Community PDC
CPE: Continuing Professional Education
CPED: Clinical Pediatric Laboratory
CPH: Center for Precision Health (in CTSI)
CPHA: Center for Population Health & Aging (in DuPRI)
CPO: Chief Pharmacy Officer
CPOE: Computerized Physician Order Entry
CPPD: Centralized Practice Plan Directors
CPRF: Capital Project Request Form
CPRN: Community-Partnered Research Network (in READI)
CPT: Current Procedural Terminology
CQMP: Clinical Quality Management Program (DOSI) or Clinical Quality Monitoring Program
CR: Continuing Review
CRA: Certified Research Administrator or Clinical Research Agreement
CRAM: Campus Research Administrator Meeting
CR@D: CoreResearch@Duke
CRC: Clinical Research Coordinator
CRF: Case Report Form
CRISP: Clinical Research Internship Portal (SOM) or Climate Research Innovation Seed Program (NSOE)
CRMS: Clinical Research Management System
CRNC: Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator
CRO: Clinical Research Organization
CRP: Clinical Research Professional
CRS: Clinical Research Specialist
CRSO: Clinical Research Support Office
CRTP: Clinical Research Training Program
CRU: Clinical Research Unit
CRUD: Clinical Research Unit Director
CrUX: Creative and User Experience team (in OIT)
CS: Campus Services
CSC: Campus Sustainability Committee
CSEEES: Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies
CSFC: Clinical Science Faculty Council
CSGD: Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (in Student Affairs)
CSIRT: Computer Security Incident Response Team
CSL: Clinical Service Line
CSML: Course in Scientific Management & Leadership
CSO: Chief Scientific Officer
CSP: Community Specialty Practice
CT2: Clinical and Translational Cell Therapy (GMP Lab Facility)
CTA: Clinical Trial Agreement
CTBO: Clinical Trials Billing Office
CTIL: Clinical Transplantation Immunology Laboratory
CTMS: Clinical Trials Management System (DCRI) or Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences
CTO: Chief Technology Officer
CTQA: Clinical Trials Quality AssuranceCTSA: Duke Clinical and Translational Science Award CTSI: Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (in SOM)CY: Calendar Year