Division News

The Bass Connections Precision Medicine team, working with faculty mentor Susanne B. Haga, PhD, from the Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine, recently published their analysis of mobile health (mHealth) intervention studies published between 2015 and 2019.

By Liz Switzer Internal medicine hospitalist Lana Wahid, MD arrived at Duke Medical Center in April 2020 with a simple goal: becoming involved in clinical research. By December 2020, she had been named Duke site Principal Investigator of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded ACTIV-4a platform trial to evaluate anticoagulation in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and quickly established the Duke Health System as one of the highest enrolling trial sites in this international collaboration.

Kathleen Cooney, MD, MACP, chair of the department, Aimee Zaas, MD, MHS, program director of the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program, and David Simel, MD, vice chair for Veterans Affairs, have announced the Chief Residents for the 2023-2024 academic year.

With 2022 underway and we are still living a relentless pandemic, our health continues to be of the upmost importance and physical activity has been shown to not only improve health, but help prevent the onset of many diseases. In February we celebrate and raise awareness for Heart Month, a time when the national spotlight is on cardiovascular disease. One cardiologist at Duke focused on heart disease, specifically from a preventative standpoint, is Dr. William E. Kraus.

Duke University School of Medicine was awarded more than $608 million in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2021, ranking third nationally among academic medical centers, up from 10th last year, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. The Department of Medicine's award of that total was $174,530,472. 

Dr. Lori Orlando leads the team behind MeTree and studies decision modeling and implementation science as it relates to identifying and managing individuals in clinical settings at increased risk for medical conditions.

Fatima Syed, MD, has been selected to serve as the new Director of the Primary Care Leadership Track (PCLT) at the School of Medicine. 

The January 25, 2022, session of Duke Medicine LEADS featured Amit Patel, MD, Caroline Sloan, MD, Gabriela M. Maradiaga Panayotti, MD, and Daniella Zipkin, MD presenting "Patient Advocacy and Involvement in Governmental Affairs."  Pearls

Katherine Neal, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the General Internal Medicine (GIM) division and a hospitalist at Duke University Hospital. Learn more in our interview! 

Congratulations to Dr. Howard for promotion to Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, effective January 2, 2022