Division News

The Society of Hospital Medicine held their annual conference this week in San Diego, California. The meeting had the largest attendance ever for SHM with over 4000 registered, including many from Duke. Nippon (Pooh) Setji, MD, was in attendance and was able to report back for us. Check out his full story and

Well done, Dr. Williams!

The March 1st issue of Annals of Internal Medicine includes an editorial by John W. Williams Jr., MD, MHSc, a Duke GIM clinician-researcher and educator, together with Gary Maslow, MD, MPH, also a Duke faculty member (Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences). The commentary is titled “Seize the Day to Implement Depression Guidelines.”

A Duke study led by Lori Orlando, MD, looks at how more deliberate efforts to map a patient’s family tree could identify additional risks and drive patients to more timely screenings.

In two months many from Duke general internal medicine will be attending the annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine in Hollywood, Florida. Last week we posted a few of the submissions accepted for oral presentations and another for a workshop led by GIM faculty, but this week we have more!

*** Duke Medical Students *** to present during the opening plenary session, Thursday, May 12, 2016!

This month the Division of General Internal Medicine is pleased to announce additions of three new faculty members.Two are biostatisticians and one joins the ambulatory medicine service at the Durham VA Medical Center.

Brad Hammill, DrPH, MS
Dr. Hammill, a longtime collaborator with our researchers, joins our DCRI faculty as a Senior Biostatistician. His primary focus in research covers areas of health policy, health services research, outcomes, and pharmacoepidemiology.

Last October 2015 we wrote about Dr. Virginia Wang’s new appointment to the editorial board of Health Care Management Review. We thought our readers would be interested to read more about her career as a health services researcher as well as her work-life experiences. Spoiler alert: Dr. Wang was a long distance runner in high school and college! Read further to learn about her focus in research and how she chose this field.

A big congratulations goes out to the Chief of General Internal Medicine, L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, for being selected to receive the 2016 SGIM Mid-Career Research and Mentorship Award.

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:

How long have you been at Duke?

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.