Division News

The Society of General Internal Medicine has announced its 2022 award and grant recipients. Among the awardees are two Duke GIM faculty members! 

To be successful in today's healthcare environment, clinicians more often aspire to navigate tough conversations with their patients.

Dr. Bruce Peyser, GIM professor of medicine and Associate Director of Ambulatory Medical Student Education, has seen this coming, has felt the challenge personally, and has chosen to bring professional education to Duke clinicians. He picked “VitalTalk” as the training organization.

VitalTalk

The 2021-22 group of Duke Presidential Award winners were celebrated on April 27 in Page Auditorium.

By Liz Switzer

As the Department of Medicine (DOM) Fellow Research Academy (FRA) wraps up its inaugural year, participants say they are coming away better positioned as competitive candidates for research awards and with a sense of camaraderie that is fostered by a departmental culture of career development.

This past week was the annual Duke Teaching and Leading EBP, a workshop for educators and champions of Evidence-Based Practice from across the country. The conference was held virtually this year, but participants were still able to meet with peers, expert faculty, and EBP mentors in a supportive learning atmosphere.

Public Health Genetics Week will take place May 23-27, 2022. The virtual event, organized by the National Coordinating Center for the Regional Genetics Network, aims to increase awareness, and celebrate the efforts of the public health genetics system.

The Duke ACTIV-4A hospital medicine research team was invited to speak at the NIH funded, ACTIV4A international monthly meeting hosted by New York University (NYU).  

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Gerald Bloomfield of Cardiology has received a sub-award through the Aga Khan University for a project entitled "Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases and Disorders Across the Lifespan: Fogarty International Research Training Award (NCD-LIFESPAN)." Total funding will be $23,180.

Four Department of Medicine faculty members have been named recipients of the 2022 Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) faculty awards.

The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) annual meeting just completed today in Nashville, Tennessee