DOC Clinic NP Wins National Award
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!
Faculty Spotlight: Jonathan Lovins, MD, MCCi, SFHM
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.
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Altmetrics - Essentials
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.
Teaching Senior Faculty at Duke-NUS
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.
Schulman Contributes JAMA Viewpoint
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.
Lantos continues focus on Lyme illness
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
Voils' JGIM Paper Prompts Editorial
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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DGIM Contributes to New JAMA Article on Breast Cancer Screening
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.
Davis Delivers Keynote for "Race to Quit, NC"
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.