Division News

The final episode of the hit television show House, M.D. airs tonight on Fox. (Learn more about the fictional show, which featured difficult-to-diagnose medical cases, in this Wikipedia entry.) No coincidence, then, that the CBS news show, Sixty Minutes, featured a real medical detective last night.

Leonor Corsino, MD, MHS, medical instructor in medicine (Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition) and faculty advisor to the Duke School of Medicine Latino Medical Student Association, has been selected to attend Investing in America's Future: Mentoring Researchers in Latino Health Disparities, a&nbsp

Over on his lab blog, Matt Hirschey, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition), poses The Two Things question – "For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know. What are they for your subject?" See how he answered for his field, metabolism, and what other scientists suggested in the comments for their fields.

Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the department, sent the following announcement to faculty. For a dozen years now, Mark Feinglos, MD, CM, has served the Department of Medicine with distinction as chief of the Division of Endocrinology.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Nov. 18 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature John Guyton, MD, associate professor of medicine (Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition). His topic will be Why Did AIM-HIGH Miss? The Multiple Effects of Niacin. Grand Rounds videos are also archived on the Department of Medicine intranet.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Nov. 11 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Lillian F. Lien, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition) and medical director of Duke Hospital Inpatient Diabetes Management. Her topic will be Inpatient Management of Diabetes Mellitus: Update 2011. Grand Rounds videos are also archived on the Department of Medicine intranet.

Department of Medicine faculty are invited to join Bryan Batch, MD, medical instructor (Endocrinology, Metabolism, & Nutrition) for a faculty development discussion on Fri., June 17, 2011 at 12 noon in the Medical Center Library room 212c. Dr.

Leonor Corsino, MD, MHS, medical instructor (Endocrinology), recently presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.

In her State of the School address last month, Dean Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, called Matthew D.

Susan Spratt, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Endocrinology), is featured in USA Today,