Division News

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:

AcademyHealth’s EDM Forum will host a free seminar on using Twitter to share health innovations and evidence. “The Social Network: Using Twitter to Translate and Disseminate Evidence” will be held from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, January 15.

The National Institutes of Health will require use of a new biosketch format in research grant applications submitted for due dates on or after January 25, 2015. The revised forms and instructions are now available on the SF 424 (R&R) Forms and Applications page. The new format extends the page limit from four to five pages, and allows researchers to describe up to five of

The PowerPoint presentation from Peter Ubel's time management discussion, given at the Fellow/Faculty development presentation on Friday the 19th, is available online here. During this presentation, Ubel talked about how to make effective lists, avoid being distracted by email, carve out time for research and other techniques.