DGIM at SGIM 2025 -- Presentations & Posters
The Society for General Internal Medicine’s (SGIM) annual meeting will be held in Hollywood, FL, May 14-17, 2025. This year’s meeting theme is “From Ideas to Action: Catalyzing Change in Academic Internal Medicine.” The meeting will feature more than 200 educational sessions and events including Workshops, Clinical Updates, Special Symposia Sessions, Poster Sessions, Distinguished Professor Talks, Pre-course Sessions, and Mentoring Panels. Check out the many faculty and trainees from DGIM scheduled to present at the meeting!
Lynch Lecture Series
Dr. Johanna Lynch at Duke.
The Division hosted Australian family doctor Johanna Lynch, PhD MBBS, Grad Cert (Health Sciences), FRACGP FASPM, for a series of five presentations on November 17th-Nov 19th.
Orlando Leading Clinical Trial on Enhancing Family Health History Collection in Under-Served Populations
Lori Orlando, MD is spearheading an NIH-funded research initiative aimed at improving the use of Family Health History (FHH) in genomic medicine. The study, called the Genomic Medicine Risk Assessment Care for Everyone (GRACE), focuses on developing a scalable solution for integrating FHH-based risk assessments in clinical settings, with particular emphasis on low-resource and low-literacy populations.
Next Educator Cafe - Oct 31!
Please join us for the next quarterly Educator Cafe on Oct 31! All GIM educators, whether inpatient/outpatient, new to Duke or a seasoned veteran, are welcome. Faculty are invited to bring projects and topics to this community for discussion and feedback. We will discuss educator needs related to:
Lori Orlando Part of New NIH-funded Genomics Initiative Award
Duke University, in collaboration with the Veterans Health Administration (VA), has received one of six awards from a new $27 million initiative from the National Institutes of Health to establish a genomics-enabled Learning Health System (G-LHS) network.
Orlando Podcast on Family Health History
Lori Orlando, MD, MHS, MMCi, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Precision Medicine Program in the Division of General Internal Medicine, was featured on the Genetics Podcast on July 3rd (YouTube link). The podcast is hosted by Dr Patrick
2024 Snyderman Scholar Working on Small Cell Lung Cancer
The Snyderman Scholars Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine Summer Program is supporting one student researcher this summer, Maia Kotelanski ’25. This competitive 10-week program provides Duke University undergraduate students a
DGIM Presenters at SGIM’s Annual Meeting
The Society for General Internal Medicine’s (SGIM) annual meeting was held in Boston, MA, May 15-18, 2024. The meeting featured more than 200 educational sessions and events including Workshops, Clinical Updates, Special Symposia Sessions, Plenary Sessions, Distinguished Professor Talks, Pre-conference Intensive Sessions, and Mentoring Panels. Several faculty and trainees from DGIM presented at the meeting (list
Former CDC Director Cohen Advises Doctors on Leadership, Consensus Building of Public Trust in Medicine
Renowned public health policy expert Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH, called on physicians to embrace consensus building around public trust in health care as confidence in federal agencies has fallen significantly this year — reaching a record low for the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) in some recent polls — in delivering the 2025 Eugene A. Stead Jr. Memorial Medicine Grand Rounds Lecture, “Leading Through Crisis and Change."
Dr. Kimberly Johnson Receives State of Science in Palliative Care Research Mentoring Award
Kimberly S. Johnson, MD, MHS, Brenda E. Armstrong, MD Distinguished Professor of Medicine, has been selected by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine to receive the 2026 State of the Science in Palliative Care Research Mentoring Award for her groundbreaking contributions to palliative care research and mentorship.
Dr. Aimee K. Zaas to Receive Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award
Aimee K. Zaas, MD, MHS, professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases and director of the Duke University School of Medicine Internal Medicine (IM) Residency Program is a recipient of the 2026 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award.
Dr. Jane Trinh Honored by National Academic Internal Medicine Group
Dr. Jane Trinh, Medicine-Pediatrics (MED-PEDS) division chief in the Department of Pediatrics and professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at Duke, is the recipient of the 2026 MPPDA Leadership in Med-Peds Award from the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM).
Duke Awarded Funding to Raise Standard of Care for Pain Management
Chronic pain is one of the most burdensome conditions in the United States, with lower back pain comprising the largest subset of those conditions, and veterans bearing a disproportionate amount of this societal burden. Two Duke researchers plan to change that reality and raise the standard of pain care management.
The Long Game: Dr. Anna Mae Diehl is Changing the Understanding of Liver Disease
After decades of persistence, researcher Dr. Anna Mae Diehl is transforming the understanding of liver disease and offering therapeutic promise for millions living with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and other forms of liver injury.
Dr. Samantha Menegas to Serve as 2026-2027 Durham VA Chief Resident for Quality, Safety
Dr. Samantha Menegas, MD, senior assistant resident in the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program, has been selected to serve as the Durham Veterans Administration Health Care System Chief Resident for Quality and Safety (CRQS) for 2026-27.
COVID-19 in Children Linked to Reduced Gut Microbiota Diversity, Altered Immune Response
A study by Duke researchers is offering compelling new evidence on how gut microbes shape children's resilience to COVID-19 — and potential new therapies for children with viral infections.
Landmark Study Gives Lung Cancer Patients Better Biopsy Options
Duke lung cancer patients and their doctors now have better diagnoses options thanks to a new landmark study that fills a critical gap in clinical decision about which of two main biopsy modalities is better for the diagnosis of lung nodules in patients at moderate to high risk for cancer.
Dr. Cara McDermott: Taking NEXT STEPs to Move Patient Care, Geriatric Research Forward
Cara McDermott, PharmD, is taking big steps to impact care for all patients while advancing geriatric research with her work in building the continuum of care for people with COPD — a leading cause of death in the United States after cancer, cardiovascular disease, and stroke.