Internal Medicine Residency News - January 12th, 2026

Hope everyone had a chance to enjoy the warm weather this weekend. We know that the respiratory viruses are EVERYWHERE and we appreciate all the diligent efforts to stay well during an early and wild flu season. We know it is super busy on all the teams as well and we appreciate you! 

Things to note in the next few weeks - we will be setting up the dates for a “fellowship overview” meeting for interns and the “application timeline” meetings for JARs. Our goal is to make sure everyone is prepared for their next steps. If you are planning on a career in hospital medicine or primary care, don’t worry - we will have career prep meetings for you too! 

SARs, it is time to get yourself registered for the ABIM (board) exam in August. Registration is open through April. As you start to get paperwork for your fellowship/job credentialing, please send to Bridget and cc me! 

Kudos this week to Daniel Bujnowski and Lexi Green from Dr. Katie Young for crushing it in the Duke MICU, to Kaushik Puranam, Meredith Srour, and attending Dr. Liz Hankollari from rheum attending Dr. Sonali Bracken for excellent care of a patient, to Sabrina Arezo for working with the BOOST program, and to Luderve Rosier, Jimshad Farooque-Wooden, and Amani Allen for teaching at City of Medicine (sent in by Victor Ayeni). Big kudos to our recruitment zoom crew: Maira Haque, Sonum Tharwani, Annie Kleynerman Roels, Daniel Nwosuocha, Alex Danyluk, Alyssa Morrison, Megan Hansen, Averie Dickinson, Sam Menegas, Gabby Pancio, Ian Malinow, Katherine Dunn, David Stevens, Zach Creech, Celyn Bregio, Reeti Gulati, Maggie Oliver, and Amber Feng, and our My Takers DJ Jimenez, Maison Furley, Averie Dickinson, Natalie Cohen, Othmane Jadi, and Luderve Rosier! 

This week’s pubmed from the program goes to our Stead Grant recipients! Way to go! Huge thank you to our DOM faculty reviewers and mentors as well. 

PI: Christopher Choi, MD
Project: Association between Smoking, Tumor Genetics, and Outcomes in Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Mentor(s): Matthew Labriola, MD 

PI: Ryan Cooper, MD 
Project: Risk of invasive fungal infection in acute myeloid leukemia patients receiving first-line venetoclax and hypomethylating agents versus high intensity chemotherapy
Mentor(s): Julia Messina, MD, MSc

PI: Zachary Creech, MD 
Project: Targeted Therapy Alone or with CNS Radiation? Identifying the Optimal Strategy for NSCLC Patients with CNS Metastases
Mentor(s): Laura Alder, MD

PI: Alexandria Danyluk, MD
Project: Barriers and Referral Patterns in the Utilization of CardioMEMS and Remote Monitoring Devices Among Eligible Heart Failure Patients
Mentor(s): Marat Fudim, MD, MHS

PI: Tyler Gillikin, MD
Project: Patient and Procedural Characteristics Predicting In-Stent Restenosis Treatment Selection Within Duke University Health Systems
Mentor(s): William Schuyler Jones, MD

PI: Alexis Green, MD
Project: Clinical Outcomes of Continued Heparin Use in Patients with Anti-PF4/Heparin Antibody Positivity
Mentor(s): Gow Arepally, MD

PI: Othmane Jadi, MD
Project: Defining Myeloid-Tumor Interactions in Primary and Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Using Spatial Transcriptomics
Mentor(s): Nicholas Devito, MD

PI: Larissa Lushniak, MD
Project: Characterization and Therapeutic Response of Patients with Metabolic-Dysfunction Associated Steatohepatitis (MASH) Undergoing Treatment with Resmetirom
Mentor(s): Amreen Dinani, MD, FRCPC

PI: Kaia Miller, MD
Project: Impact of Cannabis Use on Adverse Disease Outcomes in Cirrhosis
Mentor(s): Cynthia A. Moylan, MD, MHS, MS

PI: Nia M. Mitchell, MD
Project: Bereavement support in oncology: family experiences and needs
Mentor(s):  Thomas W LeBlanc, MD, MA

PI: Alyssa Morrison, MD
Project: Natural History and Clinical Outcomes of Concomitant Aortic Stenosis and Mitral Regurgitation
Mentor(s):  Sreekanth Vemulapalli, MD

PI: Maria Paz, MD
Project: Validating Electronic Phenotyping Algorithms and Bias Corrected Gene-Cancer Associations Using Monte Carlo Simulation in the All of Us Dataset
Mentor(s):  Jeffrey Shevach, MD, MSCE

PI: Kaushik Puranam, MD
Project: Evaluating the Impact of Medicaid Policy on Liver Transplant Access for Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease in the Post–Dallas Consensus Era
Mentor(s): Stephanie Garbarino, MD

PI: Fiona Splaine, MD
Project: Diastolic Stress Testing for the Identification of Patients at Risk for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
Mentor(s): Melissa Daubert, MD

PI: Roshini Srinivasan, MD
Project: As Seen on TikTok: An Analysis of #PCOS Content Relating to Integrative Health and Medicine
Mentor(s): Anastasia-Stefania Alexopoulos, MD, MBBA, MHS

PI: David Stevens, MD
Project: Effects of Lipid Dysmetabolism on Outcomes in LMNA Cardiomyopathy in the Duke LAMIN Registry, a Novel Retrospective Cohort Study
Mentor(s): Karen Flores Rosario, MD

Have a great week!

Aimee