Division News

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.

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, 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. 

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. 

Eight Department of Medicine faculty members have completed the Leadership Development for Researchers (LEADER) Program, which is designed for junior faculty who are leading a research group and driving their own research agenda.

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.”   

We are proud to welcome 12 new faculty members to the Division of General Internal Medicine. 

Anne Phelps, MD, and Jenny Van Kirk, MD, received Excellence in Education Awards at the first Department of Medicine Annual Celebration earlier this month.

Lori Orlando is the lead PI at Duke University within the IGNITE Pragmatic Clinical Trials Network

GIM Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dr. Nicole DePasquale, recently became a 2022 – 2024 Pilot and Exploratory Studies Award (PESC) Scholar at the Duke Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (Duke OAIC).