Division News

The annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine takes place in a little over two months from now. It’s May 11-14 in Hollywood, Florida, a location on the Florida coast just north of Miami.

This week we learned about our Duke acceptances. We are reporting what we’ve found so far about oral presentations plus one workshop! Next week check back with us for a lengthier list of poster acceptances. This is amazing work. Many congratulations to all!

Maybe you’ve seen this face around Duke. You may recognize him as the guy who likes to rep the USA in his flag suit at the Durham VA every once in a while (see photos below for proof), but we know him as Christopher Hostler, MD, MPH, husband, father of two, huge fan of Army football, and one of our Internal Medicine Chief Residents. After this year, Dr. Hostler will continue his fellowship in Infectious Disease. Read all about him here:

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This week the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced new recipients of the prestigious Research Career Scientist Award. We are proud to celebrate the newest awardee in Duke General Internal Medicine, Dr. Corinne Voils. Professor Voils has been a faculty member in DGIM since 2004. Among her many responsibilities she is the co-director of the HSR&D/GIM fellowship.

Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD, dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, today announced the launch of the new Center for Population Health Sciences in the School of Medicine. The center will be led by Lesley Curtis, PhD, professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine).

“To Co-Author, or Not to Co-Author?” That is the question posed in a recent blog post, the February 11 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. The article drew 22 comments.

We asked Dr. Gene Oddone for his reflections. We particularly wanted to know the view of promotion committee members. Here’s what he told us.

Dr. Waite, Dr. Paat, Dr. Meredith, we know you are a few who remember Dr. Humphreys in her clinical practice with GIM. She’s still a member of our faculty. We believe everyone in our division will be impressed to know “the rest of the story.”

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Duke GIM members: have you Googled your name lately? Did you notice that a link to your Duke profile link comes up first? Seriously. We should consider our online presence. It's the value proposition that gives people confidence we know who we are and what we are about professionally. Will you just write a little bit, a brief bio about what you do?

This blog post submitted by: Nrupen Bhavsar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke General Internal Medicine. 

This blog article comes from David Edelman, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine here at Duke. He recently returned from a week-long trip to Kenya as part of a grant on which he is an investigator. The grant (with key investigators from Mount Sinai, Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya, and Duke) is a randomized trial that aims to study the efficacy of group medical clinics for diabetes and hypertension in western Kenya. Here is his story:

The February 2016 issue of the SGIM Forum presents Patrick Hemming’s commentary titled “Part-time Academic Male Physicians: A Call for Role Models.”