Division News

Sabina Lee, MD, associate professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine), will receive the American College of Physician Leadership Enhancement Development Certificate during the Internal Medicine 2012 meeting in April. Dr.

Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the department, sent this message to Medicine faculty today: Lori Bastian, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine), will leave Duke early this summer to join the University of Connecticut Health Center as chief of the Division of General Medicine in the Department of Medicine there. Lori has served as interim chief of our own Division of General Internal Medicine since 2007, and as senior resear

At the February Medicine Research Conference, two faculty members who also serve as researchers at the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham VA, addressed the comparative effectiveness of smoking cessations programs. Comparative effectiveness research is designed to inform healthcare decisions by helping providers choose appropriate treatment options for patients. The presentations, by Jennifer Gierisch, Ph

The Medicine Research Conference returns Fri., Feb. 24 at 12 pm in Duke Hospital 2002 with presentations by Lori Bastian, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and interim chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, and Jennifer Gierisch, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine). Their presentations will cover explore Comparative Effectiveness Research on Smoking Cessation:

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Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Oct.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Sept. 30 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Colleen Shannon, DUHS Chief Compliance & Privacy Officer and Martha Adams, MD, professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) and director of credentialing and legal affairs for the Department of Medicine.

Medicine Grand Rounds this Fri., July 15 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Benjamin Powers, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine). Dr. Powers's topic will be Blood pressure measurement for decision making and quality reporting: How should we measure it and how low should we go? Powers was lead author of a recently published article, about blood pressure monitoring and the white-coat effect, in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Teaching the Teachers IV: Advanced Tools: What Every Clinician-Educator Should Have in Their Toolbox will be held on Fri., June 17, 2011, at the R.

Martha Adams, MD, professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine) submitted the following: Our GME Innovations project from 2010 was accepted as a poster and a breakout session for participants of the annual education conference for ACGME last week.

Endocrinology faculty Lillian Lien, MD, Mark Feinglos, MD and Leonor Corsino, MD and former fellow Mary Cox, MD, are editors of a new book,