Internal Medicine Residency News, January 9, 2023

From the Director

Thank you to everyone for getting your schedule request forms in for 2023-24.  We are sorting through everything now in preparation for schedule building once recruitment is over at the end of January!

One of the best noon conferences of the year is happening this week! Get ready for the 3^rd Annual DUKE IT OUT on Wednesday at noon! Come see your super SARs Sukrit Jain, Harsh Patolia and Komal Safdar battle for the teaching crown!

Applying for fellowship? Get ready for fellowship prep meetings – Dr Hargett and I will host the informational meetings on FEB 2nd and FEB 9th at 7 pm.  Details to follow … the meetings are the same content, so plan to attend only one.  Can’t make it at all? There is an informational packet as well that will be available to everyone applying.

Dept of Med Clinical Research Fair for Residents and Fellows

This event is being held on the 6th floor of Trent Semans on Wednesday, January 25^th at 2 open sessions: 8:30-10 am and 1-2:30 pm. the sessions are the same, we just wanted to give some flexibility on attending. 

 The main purpose of the fair is to connect DOM faculty, fellows, residents and trainees to resources available to them at Duke. I really think this is a great way for residents to figure out what is out there – which is probably the #1 concern raised for research at Duke—Where do I start?

 Some contributors to the event include central support staff from the DOM CRUs (Medicine, Heart Center and DCI) like your Assistant Research Practice Managers (ARPMs) and Research Practice Managers (RPMs), and finance leadership. Other SOM resources represented include staff from OASIS, contracts and DOMRA, CTSI resources, CRU statisticians, several DOCR directors including clinical operations, data, PACE, DEPRU and Research@Pickett.

 We will have our grant writing support from DOM and SOM as well. 

 We are asking for people to register so we can get a head count for refreshments. We will be providing light breakfast food, coffee and juice in the morning session and after-lunch snacks for the afternoon session. Additionally, all attendees will be entered into a drawing for a Starbucks gift card.

 Registration via this Survey 

Kudos

Kudos this week to our recruitment crew of Sarah Moserowitz, Hannah Brown and Mae Hamilton (My Take) and Sanjay Gadi, Auston Steifer, Sandra Au, Matt Townsend, Jackie Kercheval, Kaela Miller, Emory Buck, Komal Safdar and Courtney Dominguez (pre-interview zoom).  More kudos to Cameron Strong for an excellent SAR talk, to Nicholas Perkons from Chief Duffy for great physical exam skills, to Sukrit Jain from Dr Lana Wahid for his amazing team leadership and patient care on gen med, to Garrett Bethel from Katie Smith for his amazing work in the CICU, to Ethan Feiger from Nicole Dussault for excellent work on CICU nights, and back to Katie Smith from Garrett Bethel for her team leadership in the CICU and to Zach Silver and Yajaira Jimenez from Nijat Aliyev for wonderful care of a very sick veteran overnight. 

Pubmed from the Program

This week’s pubmed from the program goes to our Stead Resident Research Grant Recipients! Way to go all you!!!

PI: Shivram Chandramouli, MD 
Project: "Pre- and Post-MISSION Act Liver Transplant Outcomes at Veterans Affairs (VA), VA-Affiliated, and Non-VA Centers"
Mentor: Cynthia Moylan, MD

 PI: Fouad Chouairi, MD 
Project: "A Multi-center Study of Stellate Ganglion Block as a Treatment for Ventricular Arrhythmias"
Mentor: Marat Fudim, MD, MHS

PI: Melissa Cutshaw, MD, MPH 
Project: "Social determinants of cardiovascular disease risk factor control among people living with HIV at three academic medical centers in the United States"
Mentor: Lance Okeke, MD

PI: Nicole Dussault, MD,MS 
Project: "A Chaplain-Directed Intervention to Improve Advanced Care Planning at a Resident Primary Care Clinic "
Mentor: Jessica Ma, MD

PI: Hubert Haywood, MD, MBA 
Project: "Hospital at Home for Heart Failure: Estimated Cohort Size"
Mentor: Stephen Greene, MD

PI: Jonathan Kusner, MD 
Project: "Investigating right ventricular-arterial coupling in response to inhaled vasodilators in patients with pulmonary hypertension"
Mentor: Richard Krasuski, MD

PI: Kate Lee, MD, MS 
Project: "Interval Colonoscopy Screening for the Detection of Dysplasia in Inflammatory Bowel Disease"
Mentor: Jane Onken, MD, MHS

PI: Sachiko Oshima, MD 
Project: "Racial disparities in consent for HCV NAT+ and PHS IR+ solid organ transplant"
Mentor: Kara Wegermann, MD

PI: Gregg Robbins-Welty, MD, MS 
Project: “The Experience of Grief Both Personally and Professionally Throughout Residency Training”
Mentor: Anthony Galanos, MD

PI: Saurabh Sudesh, MD 
Project: "Cardiac resynchronization therapy in ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy from 5 clinical trials: a patient-level meta-analysis"
Mentor: Sana Al-Khatib, MD, MHS

PI: Andrew Vista, MD 
Project: "Noninvasive Cardiac Output Measurement Using Whole-Body Electrical Bioimpedance for Optimization of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy"
Mentor: Kevin Jackson, MD

Have a great week everyone!

Aimee