Division News

Kevin Schulman, MD, is a renowned clinical researcher and faculty member of Duke general internal medicine. This week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association shows Dr. Schulman as co-author of a Viewpoint article titled "Options to Promote Competitive Generics Markets in the United States." The other two authors are colleagues from Harvard where Schulman is a visiting professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School.

Paul Lantos,MD, a Duke Medicine hospitalist, clinician-educator, and Pediatric Infectious Diseases attending, is well known for his research and knowledge about Lyme disease. In the past several months he has several published papers and a noteworthy presence in the meetings of the IDSA as well as an international conference on lyme borreliosis. Conference Participation

This week Corrine Voils, PhD, and colleagues in health services research saw their paper appear online in the upcoming November issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine plus an associated editorial. The authors learned that adding genetic risk to type 2 diabetes risk counseling did not change weight, insulin resistance, or health behaviors.

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Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published the American Cancer Society 2015 update for breast cancer screening for women at average risk. In the issue there is also a review by Duke researchers who conducted an evidence review supporting the guideline. Several of these authors are from general internal medicine.

James Davis was a featured speaker October 6th, alongside the Deputy Secretary of Health Services, NC Department of Health & Human Services and the Executive Director of the North Carolina Alliance for Health, for the launching of “Race to Quit, NC,” the official kick-off of a statewide smoking cessation campaign. Davis is a GIM faculty member and Director of Duke’s Center for Smoking Cessation.

Posted by John Williams, MD, MHS* The 23rd Cochrane Colloquium was held in Vienna, Austria, October 3-7. It is the premier conference focused on the methods for conducting systematic reviews. As director of the Durham Evidence Synthesis Program (ESP), I attended with the goal of learning new methods to use at our center and to present results from an ESP research project. Learning new approaches

This week we learn about GIM in Moshi, Tanzania, at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, where Leah Zullig (GIM) and Yousuf Zafar (Oncology) are working with a pilot study sponsored by Duke Global Health/Duke Cancer Institute. As part of the study, the team is validating the quality of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center. This picture shows Dr. Zullig (GIM) and Dr. Zafar (Oncology) with two medical students from Kilimanjaro Medical College and staff from medical records and the cancer registry.

Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, chief of the division of general internal medicine, recently received a funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

This week Virginia Wang, PhD, accepted an invitation to be on the editorial board of Health Care Management Review. Dr. Wang is a GIM investigator in Health Services Research & Development.