The Duke Department of Medicine aims to create a supportive and equitable culture ensuring professional success and a sense of community for all members.

The Culture, Engagement, and Community (CEC) Program embraces every member of our community, and each member of our faculty, staff, and trainees are afforded every opportunity to be successful.

We achieve this goal working with our division leaders and vice chairs examining work across our missions: education, clinical care, and research. The CEC is developing concrete short-term and long-term goals through work committees, focusing on developing targets that are actionable and measurable

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Julius Wilder, MD, PhD
Vice Chief, Culture, Engagement, and Community
Chair, CEC Committee
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David Ortiz-Melo, MD
Associate Vice Chair, Culture, Enagement, and Community
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Daniella Zipkin, MD
Associate Vice Chair, Culture, Engagement, and Community
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Omobonike Oloruntoba-Sanders, MD
Associate Vice Chair, Culture, Engagement, and Community
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Jane Gagliardi, MD
Civility Champion Leader

Vice Chiefs for Community, Engagement, and Community

The Vice Chiefs for Community, Engagement, and Community (VCCEC) will partner with the division chief and the CEC committee to create an infrastructure to support a culture of respect, civility, and equity within each division. Each VCCEC will serve as a member of the CEC committee, act as a liaison between CEC Committee and their respective divisions, and contribute to a CEC agenda focused on culture, recruitment, retention, education, and training within their division.

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Camille Frazier-Mills, MD, MHS
Vice Chief, Division of Cardiology
Fatima Syed
Fatima Syed, MD
Vice Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
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John Strouse, MD, PhD
Vice Chief, Division of Hematology 
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Gentzon Hall, MD, PhD
Vice Chief, Division of Nephrology 
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Isaretta Riley, MD
Vice Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
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Lance Okeke, MD, MPH
Vice Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
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Yoon Hie Kim, MD
Vice Chief, Division of Geriatrics
Bryan Batch
Bryan Batch, MD
Vice Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition 
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Sanghee Hong, MD
Vice Chief, Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy
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April Salama, MD
Vice Chief, Division of Medical Oncology
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Sophia Weinmann, MD
Vice Chief, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
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Karen Jooste, MD, MPH
Vice Chief, Division of Palliative Care

Programs

We have initiatives that support a culture of civility and equity across the Department of Medicine through activities, programming, and support:

The Department of Medicine is aligned with the efforts across the Duke University School of Medicine and Duke University Health System. Learn more about the School of Medicine's Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (SoM EDI), and see various relevant learning opportunities.