Division News

We are proud to announce the 6th annual GIM Excellence Awards, presented by our Division Chief, Dr. Ebony Boulware, in the video below. This year we have 7 different awards and 7 individual awardees as well as one team awardee.  A special thank you goes out to all those who submitted nominations for these awards. 

Hospitalists have continued a growing and vital role in care delivery at Duke Health that includes a partnership with advanced practice provider (APP) teams and an emerging emphasis on academic research to improve outcomes.

Several Duke GIM members volunteered at the NC MedAssist Mobile Free Pharmacy event on Saturday, December 4, located at Fisher Memorial United Holy Church of America in Durham. 

Sponsored Research Deverick Anderson of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award (75D30121P10551) through the Washington State University for a project entitled "Modeling the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on U.S. Healthcare Facilities, Workforce and Resources." Total funding will be $79,999.  Adam Devore of Cardiology has received a sub-award () through the Duke Clinical Research Institute for a project entitled "SCALE -HF." Total funding will be $154,200.

Test could measure patient immunity against multiple COVID-19 variants such as Omicron and Delta at once and inform which synthetic monoclonal antibody to use for treatments.

Congratulations to Drs. Swapna Joseph and Dusty Kime for their promotions to Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, effective December 1, 2021.

Lori Orlando, MD, MHS, MMCI, Director of the Precision Medicine Program in the Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine recently spoke with WRAL on the importance of talking with loved ones about family health history.

The future of discovery in the world of research goes beyond the walls of core teams. Collaboration across institutions, countries, and around the world will answer the biggest questions in years to come.

Six scholars have been selected for the 2022-2024 cohort of Duke’s National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP). The cohort represents the fourth group of interdisciplinary medical researchers recruited to the Duke NCSP site. Duke is one of six sites within the National Clinician Scholars Program, a consortium of prestigious academic health care research institutions which provides training for doctors and post-doctoral nurses as change agents for driving policy-relevant research and partnerships to improve health and health care.

Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine (CAGPM) faculty member, Ephraim Tsalik, MD, PhD, is senior author in a recent publication in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on, “Comparing the Diagnostic Accuracy of Clinician Judgement to a Novel Host Response Diagnostic for Acute Respiratory Illness.” Co-authors from CAGPM include Micah McClain, MD, PhD, Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, and Christopher Woods, MD.