Division News

GIM Faculty Spotlight: Adam Wachter, MD

Adam Wachter, MD, is an associate professor of medicine in our division, a hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital (DRH), and the Associate Medical Director of DRH Hospital Medicine. Learn more about him in our interview below.  What brought you to Duke?

Duke at SHM Converge: Here's What's Coming

The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) annual conference, CONVERGE, is coming up this week! The meeting will take place in person March 27-29, 2022 in Austin, Texas. We have several Duke presentations this year, listed below. Click here to view the full conference schedule online.

DGIM Educator Café Recap

Duke General Internal Medicine's quarterly Educator Café kicked off last Friday and reviewed a work in progress presented by Adam Tosh, MD. The group discussed the resident evidence-based medicine curriculum and the dilemma of managing multiple learning levels in the room during an interactive teaching session. 

Ming: Lessons in Humility

Dr. David Ming, DUH Hospitalist, explains the role of academic research in helping patients and families

GIM Funding Awards - Third Quarter 2022

Congratulations to three General Internal Medicine (GIM) faculty members who are the recipients research funding since July of 2022.  Rowena Dolor has received a sub-award through the Vanderbilt University Medical Center for a project entitled "PCORnet Engagement Coordinating Center." Total funding will be $136,441. Lori Orlando has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Building and Deploying a Genomic-Medicine Risk Assessment Model for Diverse Primary Care Populations." Total funding will be $812,705.

GIM Faculty Spotlight: David Casarett, MD

David Casarett, MD, joined Duke in September of 2016 and is the Chief of Palliative Care for Duke Health as well as the Director for the Duke Center for Palliative Care. Learn more about him in our interview.

Duke GIM team in JAMA

Medicare enrollment declined among patients initiating dialysis after enactments of Medicare dialysis prospective payment and ACA Marketplace

Bae Named Chief Quality Officer for Duke University Hospital

In this new role for Duke University Hospital, Dr. Bae will join the hospital as a member of the senior leadership team with the responsibility to set the overall clinical direction, leadership, and operational management of quality and safety programs of Duke University Hospital.

Shah Promoted to Associate Professor and Named Interim CMO for Duke Primary Care

We are pleased to announce that Kevin Shah, MD, MBA, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine in the division of General Internal Medicine (GIM), effective September 1, 2022. Dr. Shah was also recently named interim Chief Medical Officer of Duke Primary Care, overseeing the continuum of work after John Anderson, MD, left this role in July.