Voils Accepted to SBM Leadership Institute
We are pleased to announce the acceptance of Dr. Corrine Voils to the inaugural year-long Leadership Institute for mid-career members in the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM). SBM is an organization of over 2000 individuals, a multidisciplinary group comprised of many involved with health promotion, prevention, obesity, and chronic disease management.
Peter Ubel Again Nudges Payment Reform
New, in Annals of Internal Medicine:
Emanuel EJ, Ubel PA, Kessler JB, Meyer G, Muller RW, Navathe AS, et al. Using Behavioral Economics to Design Physician Incentives That Deliver High-Value Care. Ann Intern Med. 2016;164:114-119. doi:10.7326/M15-1330 [Full Text]
Curlin's JAMA Viewpoint on "Why Physicians Should Oppose Assisted Suicide"
Last week’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has it’s theme as death, dying and the end of life. Of the eight Viewpoint articles in this issue, one contribution comes from Duke GIM, Dr. Farr Curlin, along with Y Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH, at George Mason University.
New Interprofessional Curriculum and Insights by GIM Author, Patrick Hemming
This journal article reports on qualitative findings from a novel inter-professional curriculum that began as a pilot project at Johns Hopkins Bayview in 2011.
Welcome Mark Bettger – GIM Senior Business Manager!
Mark Bettger became part of the Duke community in 2012 and served as the Administrative Manager for the Duke Office of Clinical Research, DOCR. “While there I provided fiscal and operational oversight for several organizational units under the Vice Dean for Clinical Research,” says Bettger. He just joined the Duke Division of General Internal Medicine as the new Sr.
GIM's Dr. Bae named Associate CMO for DUHS
Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Bae who has assumed a new role in quality as the DUHS Associate Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Patient Safety and Clinical Quality.
Dr. Simel Co-Authors 2 JAMA Rational Clinical Exams
David Simel, MD, Chief of Medicine in the Durham VA, not only edits the Rational Clinical Examination Series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), he sometimes authors a topic as he did in the recent issues of November and December 2015. Kudos to Dr. Simel for this ongoing contribution to the practice of evidenced based medicine.
GIM Faculty Spotlight: Nina Sperber, PhD
Our GIM Spotlight is on Nina Sperber, PhD, a health services researcher with a focus on using qualitative and mixed methods. However, reading her story you will learn interesting facts. Going back post-college she worked as an “urban archeologist” and more recently she is finding investigative intrigue as an implementation researcher. Here are the questions we asked:
How long have you been at Duke?
I started my work at Duke as a postdoc in health services research in 2010 and have been affiliated with the division since.
Hospitalists Receive Acceptances for Conference Presentations
Big news about acceptances of submissions by our Duke GIM Hospitalists:
Hospital Medicine 2016
Annual Meeting of the Society for Hospital Medicine
March 6-9, 2016 in San Diego
Breakout Session
Jonathan Bae, MD
Reducing Inpatient Mortality: A Standardized Approach to Identify Preventable Deaths”
Clinical Vignettes
Pooh Setji, MD
Bountiful Harvest: A Rare Case of an Obstructing Colonic Phytobezoar
GIM's Williams, Jackson, Van Houtven, Hayes, and Kinsinger - all authors in current NCMJ
The current issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal (NCMJ) just arrived! This release is about “Caring for Heroes.” Many of the articles are written by our professional colleagues who care for military veterans. We are proud to say that four were submitted by members of Duke General Internal Medicine.