Division News

Daniella Zipkin, MD, has had a workshop submission accepted for presentation at the SGIM 38th Annual Meeting in Toronto, this April. Zipkin will present her workshop, “Getting Promoted as an Educator,” on Saturday, April 25, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Congratulations, Dr Zipkin!

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.

Division faculty are encouraged to register as Doximity Members, so that their opinions can be heard by US News and World Report. Starting in 2015, this organization will no longer be using the AMA Physician Masterfile to survey physicians. Instead they will be using Doximity’s Masterfile.

The American Society of Hypertension is calling for abstracts 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.

Lori Orlando, MD, MHS, will be taking on the role of associate director for precision medicine at the new Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine (CAGPM). “I have great confidence in [Dr.

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.  

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.