Division News

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. 

Read what projects our summer scholars are working on

Sathavaram Venudhar ("Venu") Reddy, MD, was selected by the Medicine House Staff as the recipient of the 2022 Durham VA Faculty Teaching 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, 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.

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.”  

The 10-week program for undergraduates kicked off on May 23 and runs through July 29, 2022

Julia Gamble, a Nurse Practitioner at the Duke Outpatient Clinic, was recently awarded the 2022 System of Care Making a Difference Above and Beyond award from the Durham Community Collaborative, a program within Alliance Health.

Julia has worked in Durham with the uninsured and underinsured since 2004. She serves on the leadership team of the Duke Outpatient Clinic and assists with their HomeBASE “high utilizer program.” She is the clinical director and co-founder of the Durham Homeless Care Transitions Program. 

Duke GIM Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dr. Suchita Sata, grew up watching Jeopardy! every night and always wanted to be on the show. She achieved that dream in 2008 when she was a contestant on Jeopardy! College Championship, representing her undergraduate school -  The University of Wisconsin. She lost in the semifinals back then and has been itching for the chance to re-prove her trivia chops ever since. 

Duke GIM welcomes 2 new staff members to our division.