Division News

John J. Paat, MD, is the focus of this week's faculty spotlight. Paat recently returned to the Division after a stint at the Mayo Clinic. In this article he talks about working as the Medical Director of the Private Diagnostic Clinics, the concierge model of healthcare, and how Duke has changed since the 1990s. How long have you been at Duke?

The Duke Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development (Duke AHEAD) is calling for poster abstracts for its first Education Celebration. This celebration, which will be held November 13-14, will spotlight health-professions educators as well as their innovations and achievements. Abstracts are due Monday, August 11 and should advance innovation in education excellence.

This week’s spotlight shines on Ryanne Wu, MD, who talks about her work designing individualized risk assessment tools, the future of personalized medicine, and other topics. How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been at the Division? Those are two different questions for me. I first came to Duke as an undergraduate more years ago than I like to admit. I then left for medical school and residency training.

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) has issued a funding opportunity announcement for R01 and R21 grants to support effectiveness, outcomes and health services research in hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language. Up to $500,000 per year for a maximum of five years is available. Applications are due by October 2014. Read the full announcement.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is has issued a request for applications for SAMHSA Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants. These grants will offer $50,000 for projects that disseminate knowledge about practices within the mental health services and substance abuse prevention and treatment fields and integrate that knowledge into real-world practice.

The National Institutes of Health are calling for research grant applications for studies exploring interventions for the treatment or prevention of obesity or overweight adults or children. Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over a two-year period. Applications are due by October 16.

The NIH has issued a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to encourage pilot and primary research on service delivery models, and organizational or systems-level interventions on the treatment of drug, alcohol, and tobacco abuse. Up to $450,000 over three years is available. Applications are due by October 16.

Soko Setoguchi-Iwata, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine), has been awarded funding totaling around $1.05 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for a methods research project, Improving Methods for Linking Secondary Data Sources for CER/PCOR.

Each week, the Division of General Internal Medicine spotlights a different member of the division. This week, they talk with Paul Lantos, MD, about tracking and identifying Lyme disease, travel medicine, and his time in the Gambia, Peru and other locations.

Registration is open for the sixth annual Academic Hospitalist Academy (AHA), which will be held October 20-23 in Englewood, Colorado. Each year the AHA, sponsored by the Society of Hospital Medicine, provides academic hospitalists with educational, scholarly and professional development skills to advance their careers and begin a pathway to success in academic hospital medicine. Read more, or register.