Division News


DePasquale Award

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).  
Belcher NextGen

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. 
Caputo 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

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.”