Dr. Kelli Allen Receives PCORI Award to Study Knee Osteoarthritis
Kelli Allen, PhD received a PCORI award to study knee osteoarthritis. The grant, entitled, "Physical Therapy vs. Internet-Based Exercise Training for Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis" will fund a study to compare the effectiveness of practical interventions to improve patient centered outcomes including lower extremity pain, stiffness, and function. This was a highly competitive round of PCORI funding, with only 11% of applications receiving funding. Congratulations, Kelli!
Dr. Lesley Curtis promoted to Full Professor!
Lesley H. Curtis, PhD was promoted to Full Professor of Medicine by the Duke University School of Medicine Board of Trustees on December 1, 2013! Her appointment to this highest academic rank reflects the tremendous impact of her work to improve human health, her continuous exemplary scholarship, and the extraordinarily high esteem she has garnered as a preeminent scholar among her peers and scholars nationally and internationally. Dr.
GIM faculty publish JAMA Viewpoint feature on Medication Adherence
Leah Zullig, Eric Peterson and Hayden Bosworth published a JAMA “Viewpoint” entitled, “Ingredients of Successful Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence” see piece here: Zullig et al Viewpoint. Congratulations!
Dr. Van Houtven's work featured at Gerontological Society of America
Dr. Courtney Van Houtven will present her work (jointly authored with Nina Sperber, Corrine Voils, Jillian Boles as well as colleagues from U. Chicago and U. Washington) at an Economics of Aging Interest Group Symposium, called “Insuring Risk for Long-term Services Need: Individual, Family and Public Approaches” at the Gerontological Society of America in New Orleans, November 22, 2013.
Dr. Bosworth delivers key international lecture
Dr. Hayden Bosworth delivered a key lecture at the European Society for Patient Adherence, Compliance, and Persistence Meeting in Budapest, Hungary Friday November 15, entitled “Translating efficacious adherence interventions into practice: challenges and solutions.”
Dr. Bosworth delivers invited talk at Kidney Week
Hayden Bosworth delivered an invited talk at Kidney Week (American Society of Nephrology) in Atlanta, GA on Thursday, November 7, entitled “physician factors and suboptimal BP control.”
NIH Submission Deadlines
- Standard NIH deadlines can be found here: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm
- Please contact Deborah Wallace (deborah.wallace@dm.duke.edu) as soon as you think you may submit an NIH grant. Submissions require several weeks advance planning to facilitate successful submissions.
Internal Medicine Residency News: November 4, 2013
From the Director
Doctoberfest/comes sadly to a close/hello, recruitment!
Dr. Tulsky delivers invited plenary lecture
James Tulsky gave the closing plenary session last week at the National Palliative Care Research Center Annual Retreat and Symposium on his body of work in communication research– “Behind Closed Doors: The Power of Words in the Medical Encounter”