Division News

The NIH’s Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects are funding  practical and potentially sustainable strategies, delivered in routine clinical care settings, to improve processes of care and health outcomes of individuals who are at risk for or have diabetes. Applications are due by March 2, 2015. Read more. 

The subject of 2015's first faculty spotlight got into medicine following in the footsteps of not only his father, but two of his sisters. Jonathan Bae, MD, talks to us about being part of a medical family, reviewing preventable deaths within the Duke health system, and how a residency training in both pediatrics and internal medicine influences his current work.

The NIH have issued a funding opportunity announcement for  to support obesity policy and program evaluation research where opportunities for empirical study are only available through expedited review and funding. The next rolling deadlines for letters of intent are January 13 and February 10. Read the full application.

For our last faculty spotlight of 2014, we talk to Leah Zullig, PhD about her research on quality of care for survivors of colorectal cancer, efforts to improve self-management for patients living with chronic diseases, and swimming with sand tiger sharks off the North Carolina coast.
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Faculty and staff are invited to join the Internal Medicine Book Club, which will meet for the first time on Wednesday, January 28 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Duke Medicine Faculty Center (Seeley G. Mudd Building). January’s meeting will involve a discussion of Atul Gawande’s latest book, Being Mortal.

The American Medical Informatics Association’s Clinical Translational Science Community (CTS-AMIA) is offering  “NICHD’s Clinical Trials Database,” a free webinar for members on January 9 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. CTS-AMIA is a community of practice and research for translational informaticians and researchers specifically professionals associated with CTSA and CTSI sites.

Many public health experts have championed “sin taxes” as a way to discourage unhealthy behaviors while raising money. But recent research conducted by Peter Ubel, MD, and others has found these taxes can actually encourage undesirable behavior. Read his recent News and Observer op-ed explaining why.

AcademyHealth is now accepting abstracts to be considered for presentation or publication at its 2015 Annual Research Meeting and Interest Group Meetings, which will be held in next June. Applications for the Annual Research Meeting are invited for five categories: calls for innovation, policy roundtables, presentations, research panels, and student posters.

Daniel Kaplan, MD, has been a hospitalist since before the term was invented. In this week’s faculty spotlight, the self-described “purebred clinician” talks about perioperative medicine, the evolution of EHRs and how birding (sometimes also known as bird-watching) acts as training for practicing medicine.

The American Medical Informatics Association is offering "10x10” virtual courses in bioinformatics. These courses, taught by partners such as Oregon Health and Science University, Ohio State University and Nova Southeastern University, offer a chance to learn about a variety of bioinformatics topics online. The next batch of 10x10 courses will begin in January and run through April, and include the following: