Division News

Jennifer Gierisch, PhD, MPH, was a co-author of a major new systematic review and meta-analysis examining associations between smoking and acute pancreatitis.

Jason A. Webb, MD talks about providing an integrated approach to palliative care and psychiatry, his travels through Kenya, and his home life as a father, green thumb and poet.

Three of the nation’s largest philanthropies – the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Simons Foundation – have announced a new partnership to provide much needed research support to outstanding early-career scientists in the United States.

Through the new Faculty Scholars Program, the philanthropies will invest a total of $148 million in research support over the program’s first five years.

James A. Tulsky, MD, chief of Duke Palliative Care and professor of medicine and nursing, has accepted a position as chair of the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He will continue to work at Duke until July 3, before assuming the new position on Sept. 1.

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.

The 38th Annual SGIM meeting will include poster presentations featuring contributions from 10 Division of General Internal Medicine faculty members.

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.

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.

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.

Congratulations to Jennifer Gierisch, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, who has been appointed associate director of the Durham VA Evidence-based Synthesis Program.