Division News

The Duke Internal Medicine Chief Residents honored excellence in the Department of Medicine's education mission at Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., June 5.

Two faculty members from the Department of Medicine have been selected to receive 2021 Physician-Scientist “Strong Start” awards from the School of Medicine.

Olivia Dong, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in Genomic Medicine Research, has received a Young Investigator Award in Outcomes Research from the American College of Cardiology.

Two faculty in the Department of Medicine have received Career Development Awards from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

We are proud to announce the following Department of Medicine faculty who are being recognized with awards given annually by the School of Medicine.

Stephen Greene, MD, and Julia Xu, MD, MSc-GH, have received 2021 Chair's Research Awards from the Department of Medicine.

Anish Karpurapu was among the 410 students awarded Goldwater Scholarships on March 26 for the 2021-2022 academic year. Karpurapu is a Duke undergraduate student working in Ravi Karra’s lab in the Duke Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC) to identify and model growth niches in the heart that underlie heart regeneration. In the future, he plans to pursue an MD/PhD and direct his own research program focused on drug discovery through stem cell biology. 

Congratulations to the faculty from the Department of Medicine who were selected as winners of the inaugural 2021 DCRI/DIHI Innovation Campfire season. 

The March 16, 2021 session of Duke Medicine LEADS featured a discussion led by George Sipa Yankey Jr., MD, "Altered Mental Status...Oh No!"

Panelist included, Anna Lisa Crowley, MD, Dorlan Kimbrough, MD, and Andrew Vekstein, MD, who weighed in for the diagnostic reasoning discussion.

The Feb. 9, 2021 session of Duke Medicine LEADS featured a discussion led by John Duronville, MD, and Dinushika Mohottige, MD, MPH, "Case Dissection: Confronting Structural Racism and Implicit Bias."

Panelist included, Manesh Patel, MD; George Yankey, MD; Andy Mumm, MD; Yolanda Guzman, MD; and Jon Reichstein, MD, who weighed in for the health equities and disparities in medicine discussion.