Division News

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.

If you came you were able to meet a new hospitalist who’s also the IRB representative for GIM, Neil Stafford, shake hands with a new faculty candidate, figure out who’s Shelby Reed and who’s Reed Johnson, and by the way, they do research together. You might have seen yourself in the slideshow continuous loop on the large screens. Dizzy now? Visit our blogsite and enjoy the slideshow.

Over the next 10 weeks, Kevin Schulman will participate in teaching healthcare leaders in the Healthcare Leadership Academy, a program based in Lagos, Nigeria. The subject is how to excel in governance and provision of quality services. The underlying mission is to help stabilize health systems for this vulnerable population so that Africa can sustain the economic growth achieved over the past decade.

Dr. Lori Orlando is the subject of this week’s faculty spotlight. Orlando talks about falling into her unique role in Precision Medicine and what it’s like to be an internist for Duke Executive Health. Read more about her passions for the out-of-doors, even horseback riding!

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

Bruce Peyser, MD, a clinician-educator in DGIM, will co-chair, along with Robyn Latessa, MD, from UNC SOM Asheville, the upcoming “Consortium for Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (CLIC) 2015.” This large conference takes place Oct 4-8, 2015, beginning with 2 days in Durham, then 2 days in Asheville. The CLIC is a relatively new movement in medical education that uses continuity as an organizing principle.

Growing interest in longitudinal care

For this week’s faculty spotlight, we talk to Corrine Voils, PhD, a faculty member of DGIM since completing her fellowship in 2004. In this interview, Voils talks about leading faculty development efforts and about a planning grant that evaluates an IT platform for weight loss management. Did you know she’s from Texas and “grew up in the desert”? Dr. Voils plays cello with the Duke Medicine Orchestra. Read what she adds, too, about the value of Twitter!

Posted by George L. Jackson, Ph.D., MHA*

VA HSR&D-DGIM Implementation Science Series: UNC’s Bryan Weiner Talks about the State of Implementation Science