Division News

In addition to working at Duke Medicine’s Sutton Station Internal Medicine Clinic, Ronald Halbrooks, MD, consulting associate in the Department of Medicine, has practiced medicine on three continents.

Rowena Dolor, MD, is the co-author of a meta-analysis examining the effects of therapies for intermittent claudication. Published in a recent issue of Clinical Cardiology, the study examined the evidence for the benefits of supervised exercise, revascularization, and medical therapy for the condition, which causes cramping, pain, and fatigue in the legs at irregular intervals.

This year will mark the 30th year since Eugene Oddone, MD, MHS began his residency at Duke. In this week’s faculty spotlight, he talks about how internal medicine has changed over the past three decades, overseeing more than 100 research projects at the COIN at the Durham VAMC, and his loves of Habitat for Humanity, mysteries, and downhill skiing.

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.

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.

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