Culture, Engagement, and Community | Duke Department of Medicine

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.

Julius Wilder, MD, PhD
Vice Chair, Culture, Engagement, and Community
Chair, CEC Committee

Daniella Zipkin, MD
Associate Vice Chair, Culture, Engagement, and Community

David Ortiz-Melo, MD
Associate Vice Chair, Culture, Enagement, and Community

Jane Gagliardi, MD
Civility Champion Leader

Omobonike Oloruntoba-Sanders, MD
Associate Vice Chair, Culture, Engagement, and Community

Vice Chiefs for Culture, Engagement, and Community

The Vice Chiefs for Culture, 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.

Camille Frazier-Mills, MD, MHS
Vice Chief, Cardiology

Fatima Syed, MD
Vice Chief, General Internal Medicine

Sanghee Hong, MD
Vice Chief, Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy

Lance Okeke, MD, MPH
Vice Chief, Infectious Diseases

Isaretta Riley, MD
Vice Chief, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine

Bryan Batch, MD
Vice Chief, Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition

Yoon Hie Kim, MD
Vice Chief, Geriatrics & Palliative

John Strouse, MD, PhD
Vice Chief, Hematology

April Salama, MD
Vice Chief, Medical Oncology

Sophia Weinmann, MD
Vice Chief, Rheumatology and Immunology

Julius Wilder, MD, PhD
Vice Chief, Gastroenterology

Karen Jooste, MD, MPH
Vice Chief, Geriatrics & Palliative Care

Sonya Patel-Nguyen, MD
Vice Chief, Hospital Medicine

Gentzon Hall, MD, PhD
Vice Chief, Nephrology

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 Culture, Engagement, Impact and see various relevant learning opportunities.