Division News

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

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.

WearDuke expands to provide wearables through Koru curriculum

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.

GIM Welcomes 9 New Members

We are proud to announce 9 faculty and staff members that have recently joined the Division of General Internal Medicine

Wahid Named Medical Director of the Duke Early Phase Research Unit

Dr. Lana Wahid, MD, a medical instructor in the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, has been named as the Medical Director of the Duke Early Phase Research Unit (DEPRU). Dr. Wahid is a hospital medicine specialist who sees patients at Duke University Hospital.

Event honors Dr. Lynn Bowlby

The Division of General Internal Medicine (GIM) held a celebration and reception on Thursday, July 21, to recognize and honor the contributions of Lynn Bowlby, MD, who has been the Medical Director of the Duke Outpatient Clinic (DOC) for over 16 years. In August, Dr. Bowlby will be moving back to Rhode Island to assume a clinic leadership position at Brown University, where she completed her medical training. 

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

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

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. 

DePasquale receives Pepper Center Award

GIM Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dr. Nicole DePasquale, recently became a 2022 – 2024 Pilot and Exploratory Studies Award (PESC) Scholar at the Duke Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (Duke OAIC).