Internal Medicine Residency News - May 4th, 2026

IM Residency

Happy May! The end of the year is really coming up quickly! This week we have the professional development half day for rising SARs on Thursday plus our first of the three “How to Be A JAR” sessions at academic half day. End of year meetings have started for preliminary interns and SARs as well. Keep an eye out on the calendar for other events and happenings!

Thank you to Lauren for organizing a fantastic Greenfield visiting professor grand rounds and meet up with MELT residents! So inspired by Dr. Spicer! 

Big kudos to our ACLT team (Zoe Shancer, Lisette Corbin, Maggie Oliver, Frank Estrella, Megan Hansen, Amber Feng, Sam Menegas, Collin Darwish, Alee Danyluk, Maria Paz, Rishabh Sehra, Oyin Adidepe, and Ankit Kayastha), led by Drs. Zipkin and Sloan for their tremendous advocacy in Washington DC, with platforms that focused on mental health care and responsible use of AI for prior authorization. 

Thank you to the Department of Medicine for a wonderful event on Wednesday night where we celebrated departmental award winners and had a chance to thank our graduating SARs as well as the current chiefs and welcome the incoming chiefs! We presented some of our trainee selected awards and a number of our #DukeFam won awards, including former residents, several former chief residents, or members of program leadership! Congratulations to:

      Zoe Shancer - Bruce Dixon Award

      Ryan Duffy - VA Teaching Award

      Alex Horne and Dan Loriaux - Stead Teaching Award

      Caroline Sloan - Ambulatory Teaching Award      

      Dani Zipkin - Inductee to the Clinical Excellence Society

      Jenny Van Kirk - Division of Hospital Medicine Teaching Award

      Rich Riedel - Inductee to the Clinical Excellence Society

      Saumil Chudgar - DOM Excellence in Education Award

      Neha Kayastha - Division of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Teaching Award 

Other kudos this week go to Sam Haddad and Ryan Edwards for fantastic SAR talks, to Julia Couto for a spectacular Cohen Conference, to Ashlely Diaz from Dr. Godfrey for excellent work in the Duke ED, to Sam Haddad from a VA patient, to Richard McLane and Urvi Gupta for getting gold stars from a patient, to Shane Clark from Dr. Bowman for excellent and timely documentation, and to Oyin Adidepe and Eli Abernethy for a timely and well-done response to an RRT (sent in by Dr. Van Kirk). 

This week’s pubmed from the program goes to Victor Ayeni for his recent presentation at the Heart Rhythm Society Meeting:  "NSVT as a Predictor of Appropriate Device Therapies: An APPRAISE-ATP Substudy"

Have a great week!

Aimee      

Medicine Grand Rounds: This Friday, May 8th, 2026

*Find out more about weekly MGR or watch previous sessions here.

Date Topic Lecturer(s) Location
05/08/2026

 

8am – Grand Rounds

Evolving Paradigms in Liver Transplantation: Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease in an Era of Expanding Opportunities

 

Lindsay King, MD, MPH and Stephanie Garbarino, MD

DUH 2002 & Zoom

Noon Conference: May 4th - May 8th, 2026

Date Inpatient Topic Lecturer(s) Location Lunch
05/04/26 No Noon Conference

n/a

 n/a

none
05/05/26

Cardiac POCUS Cases

Dr. Brice Lefler

 DUH 2002 & Zoom Enzo's
05/06/26

Med Peds SAR Talk

Dr. Noah Hellerman

DUH 2002 & Zoom

Cosmic Cantina
05/07/26 No Noon conference - Rising SAR Retreat

n/a

 n/a

Piper's in the Park
05/08/26

No Noon Conference

n/a

n/a

none

Report Conference Schedule: May 4th - May 7th, 2026

Date Topic Lecturer(s) Time
05/04/26

VA Student Teaching

DUKE SAR Report

DUKE MS2 Report

VA Background with Dr. Marie Carlson 

SAR Report: Focus Group with Dr. Caputo

MS2 Teaching (Cardiology)

11 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

2:30 p.m.
05/05/26

DUKE SAR Report

DUKE Intern Report

VA Intern Report

SAR Report: Dr. Lara Scott with Dr. Govert

Intern Report: Dr. John Etter with Dr. Courtney Dominguez

Focus Group: "Setting Expectations"

1:15 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

2:30 p.m.
05/06/26

VA Student Teaching 

DUKE SAR Report

VA JAR Report

Student Teaching with ACR: "Acute Coronary Syndromes"

SAR Equity Report: Transition to Adult Model of Care by Dr. Ruchi Doshi

Focus Group: "Setting Expectations" 

11 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

1:15 p.m.
05/07/26

DUKE SAR Report

DUKE Intern Report

VA Intern Report

SAR Report: Dr. Amber Feng with Dr. Zaas

Intern Report: JAR Year Transition with Dr. Nathan Hirshman

Intern Case Report with Dr. Zhang and Dr. Olivier Barolette (case presenter) 

1:15 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

Our Wellbeing
The Department of Medicine is keeping an updated list of wellbeing resources during this extraordinary time. Click here for more information.

Employee Health Hours!

  • My COVID Link - Report new or worsening COVID-19 symptoms or new exposures.
  • Employee Occupational Health & Wellness (EOHW) COVID Hotline, (919) 385-0429, option 1 (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday, and 8 a.m. - noon on weekends), After hours call the Duke emergency operator for the exposure nurse on call at (919) 684-8115.

Feeling down? Need to talk to someone? Opportunities for Wellness
All trainees at Duke have FREE access to Personal Assistance Services (PAS), which is the faculty/employee assistance program of Duke University. The staff of licensed professionals offer confidential assessment, short-term counseling, and referrals to help resolve a range of personal, work, and family problems. PAS services are available free of charge to Duke faculty and staff, and their immediate family members. An appointment to meet with a PAS counselor may be arranged by calling the PAS office at 919-416-1PAS (919-416-1727), Monday through Friday between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Prioritized GME appts are now available also at 6 pm and 7 pm! For assistance after hours, residents and fellows can call the Blood and Body Fluid Hotline (115 inside DUH, 919-684-1115 outside) for referral to behavioral health resources. Another resource is Duke Outpatient Psychiatry Referrals at (919) 684-0100 or 1-888-ASK-DUKE. Home | Personal Assistance Service (duke.edu)

Did you know that Duke Health now has three ways to make appointments and access health information in Spanish. Click HERE for information.

Hey everyone, 

First, I want to give a HUGE shoutout to Victor for all the work he’s done with Resiteering over the past couple of years! He’s passing me the baton, and I hope to keep this initiative going strong-- AND will have a couple of interns join me shortly because we can’t all do 5 million things at once like Victor 😉 

Second shoutout to everyone who came out to the events last month!! Check out these fun pics from the colorectal screening campaign and the Habitat for Humanity builds!! 

Ok so here’s what’s on the docket for next month: 

  • ❤️👨‍⚕️ PAD Teaching at Jubilee Home ft. Duke Cardiology ⛪❤️

    • We’re back at our peripheral artery disease (PAD) outreach with Dr. Dennis Narcisse of Duke interventional cardiology, this time with the recently incarcerated residents of Jubilee Home seeking to rebuild their lives. They have a weekly dinner and have invited us to speak to them about PAD and other health topics in small groups, and we’d love to have at least two residents to help out!

    • Time: Tuesday, May 12 from 6-8pm

    • Location:  Jubilee Home (404 E Umstead St, Durham, NC 27707)

    • Sign-Up/Contact: email Victor Ayeni at victor.ayeni@duke.edu
       

  • 💃🕺Bull City Fit Dance Class 🕺💃

    • Bull City Fit is a community-based wellness program for children with a BMI > 95th percentile. Roshini and Gabby Cooper absolutely crushed it last month, so they want us back!! I’ll be hosting a dance class at one of their evening workshops- come join me!

    • Time: Wednesday, May 13 at 7pm

    • Location: Edison Johnson Recreation Center (500 W Murray Ave)

    • Sign-Up: Text Madhura Pande at 8436949184
       

  • 🚚🥫Duke Memorial Mobile Market 🥦🍎

    • Join one of many local groups fighting food insecurity in Durham as you load and organize food to then distribute to your neighbors in Durham.

    • Time: Saturday, May 15 anytime between 7:30am-1:30pm- you pick based on your shift!

    • Location: Duke Memorial (504 W Chapel Hill St)

    • Sign-Up: https://signup.com/go/pLjRwWm (there are multiple sign-up times with different tasks that you can choose from!)

    • Contact: Matt Wood (Jenny Van Kirk’s husband) at 828-301-9703

For those who can’t make it to these events but want to help out, the group we’re highlighting for donations this month is…Fresh Start Durham! This is an initiative to give neighbors in Durham the dignity of a free shower, clean clothes, and a haircut. Even a small donation helps people obtain these things that we take for granted but that can be such meaningful ways to acknowledge someone's humanity. Donate HERE!

And if you have any initiatives you want us to volunteer with or donate to, please let me know!! We are always looking for new ways to connect with the Durham community.


Ok phew, I think that’s all, folks! Hope to see yall at one of these events!!

- Madhura

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