Dr. Van Houtven's work featured at international conference
Dr. Courtney Van Houtven’s work was will be featured at the “Workshop on the Economics of Long-Term Care” in Geneva, Switzerland, December 16-17, 2013, where she and her colleagues will also present on, “Informal Care and Caregiver’s Labor Market Outcomes in South Korea” during this workshop.
Southern Society of General Internal Medicine Seeking Panel Mentors
The Southern Society of General Internal Medicine is inviting faculty members at the rank of assistant professor or above to participate as a Panel Mentor at this year’s regional meeting in New Orleans, February 20-22, 2014. Since its inception seven years ago, Panel Mentoring has been highly rated by attendees, and demand has grown for these sessions. When you attend the Southern SGIM meeting, we hope that you can give 1.5 hours (or more, if willing) of your time to be a mentor. You will be sharing your experience and giving advice to three SSGIM memb
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”
Dr. Steinhauser delivers invited plenary lecture
Karen Steinhauser gave the opening plenary last week at the National Palliative Care Research Center Annual Retreat and Symposium on assessment and treatment of spiritual health, and recommendations on addressing gaps in the field – “Spirituality and Palliative Care: In Search of the God Particle”