Division News

This week we are grateful to catch Dr. George Cheely to share his story. Dr. Cheely is a former Duke medicine resident and now faculty. He tells about his different roles in hospital medicine and as the “Medical Director of Care Redesign” — these keep him connected as a clinician-educator and as an expert in medical systems at the interface of the electronic health record.

How long have you been at Duke?

This academic year marks my seventh at Duke.  I came for residency and am in my fourth year on faculty in GIM this year.

The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) is an international gathering that brings together  leaders and visionaries to positively impact and shape the future of the global wellness industries. The 2015 Summit took place in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 13-15, 2015, under the theme "Building a Well World".

This week's Spotlight is about Matthew Maciejewski, PhD, a health economist and health services researcher. Eight years ago Dr. Maciejewski came from the west coast, Seattle, Washington, to North Carolina. He has a very lengthy list of publications and yet tells us about papers by other authors, landmarks about internal validity of observational studies. Read how he began studying economics and then merged with healthcare research. Here are his answers to our questions.

The Alex & Rita Hillman Foundation, a national organization to improve the lives of patients and their families through nurse-led innovation, recently announced the 2 recipients of the Hillman Innovations in Care Program, a multi-year initiative created to expand leading edge, nursing-driven programs that address the healthcare needs of vulnerable populations. The grantees will each receive a $600,000 three-year grant, and Duke was one of the recipients!

Our spotlight this week focuses on Dr. Jon Lovins, a hospitalist and medical informaticist. Jon recently completed the Duke graduate program, Master of Management in Clinical Informatics (MCCi). This program is about the merger of data science and management within health systems. For our interview he tells us about hospital medicine and informatics, his family, music, and being a fan of science fiction.

How long have you been in the division of General Internal Medicine?

No doubt you've noticed these rainbow donuts. The number "66" was the latest altmetric score for the recent JAMA systematic review [Link] on breast cancer screenings (last viewed 11/5/15). This post provides a few essentials for understanding altmetric scores plus information about Duke University's license for Altmetric Explorer as well as a few details about tracking our publications.

In August 2015 we wrote about Larry Greenblatt, MD, a clinician-educator in GIM, and Mamata Yanamadala, MBBS, from Duke Geriatrics, and their work in Singapore for Duke-NUS.

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.