Boulware to lead new DCRI center to study and improve community health
Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and professor of medicine, will lead the Duke Center for Community and Population Health Improvement.
Elaina Cheek joins division of General Internal Medicine as grants and contracts administrator
Please join us in welcoming Elaina Cheek, our new grants and contracts administrator, to the division of General Internal Medicine.
Cheek joined the division after working for six years in the Duke Office of Sponsored Research.
SGIM 2015 Sneak Preview: DGIM poster sessions
The 38th Annual SGIM meeting will include poster presentations featuring contributions from 10 Division of General Internal Medicine faculty members.
Faculty spotlight: Megan E. Brooks, MD, MPH
Megan Brooks, MD, MPH is a medical instructor in the Department of Medicine. She teaches second-year medical students, coordinates care plans, helps develop the curriculum for the Duke Physician Assistant (PA) hospital medicine rotation, and sees patients with everything from heart failure to complications of knee replacement.
Boulware named CTSA contact principal investigator
Dean Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, has announced that L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, will serve as the contact principal investigator for Duke’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), effective March 1, 2015. Dr.
Gierisch appointed associate director of VA Evidence-Based Synthesis Program
Congratulations to Jennifer Gierisch, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, who has been appointed associate director of the Durham VA Evidence-based Synthesis Program.
Division of General Internal Medicine welcomes four newest faculty members
Please join us in welcoming the four newest members of the Division of General Internal Medicine. Together they have varied and distinguished backgrounds that range from psychiatry and internal medicine, to general surgery, to teaching residents.
The latest additions to the division include:
PCORI spring 2015 cycle of funding starting in February
The online application system for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)’s spring 2015 cycle will open February 4. This year’s spring cycle will offer more than $100 million total in funding in the following areas:
CDC funding research on intimate partner violence and sexual violence
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are funding research to rigorously evaluate structural, economic, environmental, or policy strategies for the primary prevention of intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence (IPV and/or SV). Up to $400,000 for the first year will be awarded. Letters of intent are due by February 6; applications are due by March 5. Read the full announcement.
Faculty Spotlight: Lawrence Greenblatt, MD
For this week’s faculty spotlight we talk to Lawrence Greenblatt, MD, a 20-year veteran of the division, about the future of men’s health, the ACLT resident program, and having his name and face light up electronic billboards in downtown Singapore. How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been at the division? I have been a member of the division since August 1994 and thus have been at Duke for more than 20 years.