Division News

This week we present the career path of Dr. Adia Ross. She’s experiencing several very exciting professional roles and gives us all some resources about stress in the workplace, especially valuable for this season of the year.

How long have you been at Duke and the Division of General Internal Medicine?
I came to Duke as a resident in 2009. I have been in the Division of General Internal Medicine since 2013.

The School of Medicine last week recognized 3 individuals to receive the "2015 Research Staff Appreciation Award." The Clinical Research honor was given to GIM's Pam Gentry in acknowledgement of her help in developing many programs, especially focusing on improved care for patients. 

-How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been in the Division of General Internal Medicine? What did you do before coming to the Division?

Duke GIM celebrated the holiday season on Wednesday, December 9, at the King’s Daughters Inn in Durham. Thank you to everyone who attended the holiday celebration this year with a special thank you to Harriett Ware, Jodi Telander, Nancy Thomasson, and Robin Byrd who all worked so hard to make this celebration possible. Check out the photo gallery from the event here! #ProudToBeGIM #BringOn2016

Robin Byrd is a recent addition to our GIM team! She will be taking over for Nancy Thomasson, who is counting down the days until retirement (her last day will be December 18). Here is a little more about Robin:

How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been in the Division? What did you do before coming to the Division?

I have been at Duke working in General Internal Medicine for about a month.  Before coming to Duke I  worked at GlaxoSmithKline and Merck Pharmaceutical as a Financial Analyst in R&D Finance.

Kevin A. Schulman, MD, MBA, is a professor of medicine at Duke University who’s recent work has received national recognition. In an article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) he and others proposed new solutions to generic drug market volatility, and his collaborative work in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) focused on the impact of specialty pharmaceuticals on insurance premiums. The NEJM article was also featured in a recent The New York Times story entitled “I Am Paying for Your Expensive Medicine”.

Dr. Marisa D’Silva is yet another member of our general internal medicine faculty who’s also a talented musician and member of the Duke Medicine Orchestra. Read on to learn about her 18 years at Duke as a clinician-educator, both for the VA PRIME and the DOC clinic. We are fortunate to have Dr. D’Silva and her commitment to teaching the next generation of physicians.

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

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.