Division News

Volunteers in Palliative Care: Duke Leading at the Frontier

February 15, 2023

Duke Palliative Care has grown a great deal over the last 15 years. The program started as a scrappy offshoot from Geriatrics, with Tony Galanos, MD, and Jennifer Gentry, NP, beginning to change the culture.

Resident Emory Buck, MD, and a Durham Tech crew of faculty and students prepare to go our for patient visits

Dose of Reality: DOC-Durham Tech Mobile Lab Gives Duke Residents Life Lessons in Equity

February 6, 2023

Dussault Named Young Investigator of the Year by SSCI

February 5, 2023

Zipkin authors “Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine: A Toolkit for Educators”

February 1, 2023

Get to know Pamela Williams and how she brought together supporting people and project management

February 1, 2023

Pamela G. Williams is a senior program coordinator for the Duke Precision Medicine Program and the division of General Internal Medicine.

Q&A on Context Matters: Kicking off Black History Month with Keisha Bentley-Edwards

January 30, 2023

Developmental psychologist Keisha Leanne Bentley-Edwards, PhD, MA, is an associate professor in the division of General Internal Medicine, the Associate Director of Research and the Director of the Health Equity Working Group for Duke’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.

Building Better Guardrails for Algorithmic Medicine

January 26, 2023

Dr. Eric Poon co-chairs creation of a system of governance and oversight for AI tools

11 faculty from Medicine selected for 2023 Duke Clinical Leadership Program

January 20, 2023

28 faculty from the School of Medicine, including 11 faculty from the Department of Medicine, have been selected for the School of Medicine's 2023 Duke Clinical Leadership Program cohort.

GIM Faculty Spotlight: Michelle Perkons, MD

January 17, 2023

Meet Michelle Perkons, MD, who joined our GIM division as a Medical Instructor in July of 2022 and is a hospitalist at Duke University Hospital. Learn more about her in our interview below!

WearDuke expands to provide wearables through Koru curriculum

January 12, 2023

The WearDuke study, led by co-principal investigator, Susanne Haga, PhD, associate professor of Medicine in the division of General Internal Medicine, launched in 2019 as a campus-wide health initiative to address student well-being.

Colby Feeney, MD, Named Med-Peds Residency Program Director

July 18, 2022

Colby Feeney, MD, hospitalist and assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine with a secondary appointment in the Department of Pediatrics, will assume the role of program director for the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program effective September 15, 2022.

Long affiliated with the program, Feeney, currently serves as its associate program director, a role she has held since 2018.

Hospital Medicine Updates

July 17, 2022

The month of July brought many new updates for the hospital medicine program at Duke.

Fuad Bohsali, MD, is the new Medical Director of Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) and Perioperative Nutrition Support at Duke Regional Hospital.

Zipkin Highlights Equity Needs for Promotion of Women and Black Faculty

July 15, 2022

Daniella Zipkin, MD, presented at Medicine Grand Rounds with a presentation titled, “Promotion for Women and Black Faculty in Academic Medicine: Through the Equity Lens.”

8 in medicine complete Duke LEADER program

July 8, 2022

Eight Department of Medicine faculty members have completed the Leadership Development for Researchers (LEADER) Program, which is designed for junior faculty who are leading a research group and driving their own research agenda.

7 GIM faculty promoted to Associate Professor

July 1, 2022

Congratulations to seven of our faculty members who are receiving distinguished academic promotions in the division of General Internal Medicine!

“It gives me tremendous pleasure to announce these promotions to Associate Professor. As you know, these academic promotions mark faculty members’ scholarly achievements and are a hallmark of professional accomplishment in our school. Faculty appointed to Associate Professor have achieved recognition within Duke and at peer institutions as leaders in their fields both nationally and/or internationally.”