Thomas Owens Named EVP and COO of Duke University Health System
Thomas Owens, M.D., has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Duke University Health System (DUHS).
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.
Volunteers in Palliative Care: Duke Leading at the Frontier
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.
Get to know Pamela Williams and how she brought together supporting people and project management
Q&A on Context Matters: Kicking off Black History Month with Keisha Bentley-Edwards
Building Better Guardrails for Algorithmic Medicine
11 faculty from Medicine selected for 2023 Duke Clinical Leadership Program
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.
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.
Zipkin Highlights Equity Needs for Promotion of Women and Black Faculty
8 in medicine complete Duke LEADER program
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.”