Division News

Registration is now open for the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Southern regional meeting, which will be held February 26-28 in New Orleans. In addition, the organizers of this year’s event are offering panel mentoring sessions for junior and mid-career faculty members, fellows, residents and medical students with confidential advice from mentors from diverse backgrounds.

The American Society of Hypertension is calling for abstract submissions for its 2015 meeting, which will be held May 15-19 in New York City. Submissions are due by December 9. Click here to read the submission guidelines or to submit an abstract.

One of the division’s newest faculty members recently returned to Duke after a fellowship at Johns Hopkins and four years on the faculty at the University of Maryland.

Duke Palliative Care will host a screening of the newly-released documentary film Consider the Conversation 2: Stories about Cure, Relief and Comfort at the Full Frame Theatre on the American Tobacco campus on Thurs., Dec. 4 at 6:30 p.m.  

The 2014-2015 Health Policy Lecture Series begins this Wednesday with a panel discussion on Healthcare Reform: Initial Assessments from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center for Health Education.

Rowena Dolor, MD, is the lead author of a new article on practice-based research networks, “Guidance for Researchers Developing and Conducting Clinical Trials in Practice-based Research Networks (PBRNs).” This article, published in the most recent issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, offers guidance in the areas of recruiting and engaging practices, budgeting, project management, and communication, as well as templates and examples of too

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is accepting applications for two career development awards in the area of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR): The K08 AHRQ PCOR Mentored Clinical Investigator Award, and the K01 AHRQ PCOR Mentored Research Scientist Development Award. Read more.

Abstract submissions are now open for the 2015 Society of General Internal Medicine meeting! Submissions for abstracts, as well as clinical vignettes and innovations are due by January 8. The 38th Annual SGIM Meeting will be held April 22-25, 2015 in Toronto.

The division’s Martha Adams, MD, is playing a leadership role in the American Medical Informatics Association symposium currently underway in Washington, DC. On Sunday, Adams is moderating a tutorial on qualitative research for nearly 100 interested participants.