Division News

Faculty Spotlight: Brian Schneider, MD

Brian Schneider, MD, is an assistant professor in GIM and section chief of Hospital Medicine at the Durham VA. He joined our faculty after completing his Internal Medicine Residency here at Duke. Get to know more about Dr. Schneider and his interests inside and outside of work in our interview below. 

What brought you to Duke?

I came to Duke for my Internal Medicine Residency. I received great training and love Durham, so the decision to stay was easy. 

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.

2022 GIM Excellence Awards

General Internal Medicine announces the 7th annual Excellence Awards to honor the outstanding achievements of our division's faculty and staff members in clinical care, education, research, implementation, and professionalism. This year, we added a few more award categories and are excited to have 10 individual awards as well as one team award. 

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. 

8 in medicine complete Duke LEADER program

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

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.”