11 faculty from Medicine selected for 2023 Duke Clinical Leadership Program
28 faculty from the School of Medicine, including 11 faculty from the Department of Medicine, have been selected for the School of Medicine's 2023 Duke Clinical Leadership Program cohort.
GIM Faculty Spotlight: Michelle Perkons, MD
Meet Michelle Perkons, MD, who joined our GIM division as a Medical Instructor in July of 2022 and is a hospitalist at Duke University Hospital. Learn more about her in our interview below!
WearDuke expands to provide wearables through Koru curriculum
The WearDuke study, led by co-principal investigator, Susanne Haga, PhD, associate professor of Medicine in the division of General Internal Medicine, launched in 2019 as a campus-wide health initiative to address student well-being.
Hospital Medicine: Serving a Vital Role in Care Delivery at Duke
Hospitalists have continued a growing and vital role in care delivery at Duke Health that includes the important missions of clinical care, education, and research.
Trailblazers: Department of Medicine Investigators at the Forefront of AIDS Research
Department of Medicine Investigators, Lance Okeke, Amy Corneli, Maria Blasi, and Kevin Wiehe, at the Forefront of AIDS Research
GIM Welcomes 9 New Members
We are proud to announce 9 faculty and staff members that have recently joined the Division of General Internal Medicine
Phelps and Van Kirk honored with Excellence in Education Awards
Anne Phelps, MD, and Jenny Van Kirk, MD, received Excellence in Education Awards at the first Department of Medicine Annual Celebration earlier this month.
Orlando and IGNITE team publish design and rationale of GUARDD-US
Lori Orlando is the lead PI at Duke University within the IGNITE Pragmatic Clinical Trials Network
DePasquale receives Pepper Center Award
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).
3 GIM faculty receive end of the year awards
During Duke Medicine Grand Rounds on June 17, 2021, three General Internal Medicine (GIM) faculty members were honored with awards.
Belcher selected for AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellowship
GIM Assistant Professor Vernee Belcher, MD, was selected to receive a John A. Hartford Age-Friendly Health Systems Scholarship to participate in the American Hospital Association's Next Generation Leaders Fellowship.
Reddy receives Durham VA Faculty Teaching Award
Sathavaram Venudhar ("Venu") Reddy, MD, was selected by the Medicine House Staff as the recipient of the 2022 Durham VA Faculty Teaching award.
Caputo receives Innovator Award
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Laura Caputo, MD, is the recipient of the Innovator Award for the 2022 VHA David M. Worthen Awards for Excellence in Health Professions Education.
Ryanne Wu on her path to precision medicine
Ryanne Wu, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Medicine and faculty for the Duke Precision Medicine Program, knew she wanted to be a physician from a very young age. Now, at Duke, Wu is an internal medicine physician and health services researcher with an emphasis on precision medicine. She studies the implementation of precision medicine interventions with the goal of improving clinical care processes and outcomes. Wu is part of projects involving MeTree, a patient-facing family health history risk assessment platform designed at Duke’s Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, as well as the Veteran Affair’s Pharmacogenomic (PGx) Testing for Veterans (PHASER) program, which is working to complete PGx testing on up to 250,000 veterans by 2024.
Bhavsar and Halpern promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to two General Internal Medicine (GIM) faculty members who are receiving distinguished academic promotions!
“It gives me tremendous pleasure to announce these two 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.”