DOC-Durham Tech Mobile Lab Wins IPE Award
The DOC-Durham Tech Mobile Lab was awarded the Duke AHEAD 2024 Interprofessional Education (IPE) Team Excellence Award on March 22 at the annual Education Day. This award recognizes the “exceptional achievements in the coordination of learners, faculty, or staff as a team within the realm of educational activities.” The DOC-Durham Tech Mobile Lab is a partnership that enables monthly home visits of patients limited in their ability to visit a clinic.
Faculty Promotions February 2024
Congratulations to the following faculty members for their recent appointment or promotion in the Department of Medicine.
DGIM Hospitalists Recognized by SHM NC Triangle Chapter
The local chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) hosted their NC Triangle Chapter Networking and Awards night on February 16 at the Graduate Hotel in Chapel Hill. Among the award recipients were Tara Spector and Pooh Setji (both won for Clinical Leadership for Physicians), Poonam Sharma (Excellence in Teaching), Lana Wahid (Excellence in Research), Noel Ivey (Best vignette), and David Gallagher
DGIM Residents & Faculty at 2024 NC ACP Chapter Meeting
The 2024 Annual Scientific Session of the NC Chapter of ACP (Chapter Governor Marion McCrary) was held on Feb 9-10 at the Marriott Crabtree Valley Hotel in Raleigh, NC, organized by Program Co-chairs Noel Ivey, Michelle Perkons, Denise Pong, and Fatima Syed. Along with several residents in attendance, DGIM speakers included Will Yancy, Bruce Peyser, Suchita Shah Sata, David Boyte, Poonam Sharma, and Katherine Neal. Check out the photos of some of the presenters and attendees below!
GIM Promotion - Eugenia McPeek Hinz, MD, MS
Congratulations to Eugenia McPeek Hinz, MD, MS, for her promotion to Assistant Professor of Medicine. Dr.
Reduced Acute Diabetes Complications Linked to Preventive Drug List Benefits
To improve medication adherence and health outcomes, some employers are offering a ‘preventive drug list’ (PDL) option with reduced out-of-pocket expenses for medications. In Type 2 diabetes, like other chronic diseases, patients often take multiple medications to manage not only their blood glucose levels but also a constellation of other health problems such as hypertension and hypercholesterolemia.
Faculty Promotions January 2023
Congratulations to the following faculty members for their recent appointment or promotion in the Department of Medicine.
Medical Students Enjoy CIMIGro Women in Medicine Panel
Sixty Duke University medical students joined Careers in Internal Medicine Interest Group (CIMIGro) — a student-run organization at Duke University School of Medicine whose purpose is to orient medical students to the field of internal medicine and its sub-specialties — and co-host, the Duke Department of Medicine Chair’s Office, at January’s Women in Medicine Panel at Parizade restaurant.
Dr. Susan “Nicki” Hastings Named Chief for Division of General Internal Medicine
Dr. Susan “Nicki” Hastings, MD, MHS, will assume the role of chief for the Division of General Internal Medicine, effective December 16, 2024.
Centennial Celebration: Driving Duke’s “Outrageous Ambition”
The Duke Department of Medicine (DOM) recently honored the commitment of a few Duke centers and institutes that continue to drive the University’s mantra to honor its “outrageous ambitions,” as articulated by former Duke President and U.S. Senator Terry Sanford when he highlighted Duke medical community’s brilliant reputation and focus on excellence in his 1984 final annual address to faculty.
Personalized Deprescribing: Advancing AI Research to Manage Older Adult Polypharmacy
Dr. Juliessa Pavon is the principal investigator on a new $2.8 million, five-year National Institutes of Health Research Grant (R01) to help clinicians and older adults make safer, data-driven decisions about stopping medications.
COMET Team Examines Clinical Language Use Toward Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
Hospitalists and social workers with Duke’s COMET (Caring for Patients with Opioid Misuse through Evidence-Based Treatment) consulting service teamed on a recent interdisciplinary study that encompasses social work and inpatient medicine to understand providers' use of language in the electronic health records of patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) hospitalized at Duke.
Department of Medicine Faculty Development Academy Kicks Off the Year with New Cohort
A new cohort of 17 Faculty Development Academy (FDA) members kicked off the academic year on September 26 under the director of Department of Medicine Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Dr. Carla Brady.
Noon Conference Hits a High Note with Dr. Kate Lee’s Music Therapy Performance
When senior resident Kate E. Lee, MD, MS, picked up a flute for the first time in third grade, she never imagined that one day as a physician she would use it as a therapeutic tool to soothe critically-ill ICU patients waiting for heart transplants.
Moving Medicine Forward: Department of Medicine Expands to 13 Divisions
The Duke University Department of Medicine (DOM) will expand from 12 to 13 divisions on September 1, 2024 with the creation of the new division of Hospital Medicine. The new division will include all hospitalists and nocturnists who oversee patients in the general medicine wards.
Bush to Serve as 2025-2026 VA Chief Resident for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Haley Bush, MD, MSPH, senior assistant resident in the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program, has been selected to serve as the Durham VA Medical Center Chief Resident for Quality and Safety (CRQS) for 2025-26.
Trainee Spotlight: Samantha Curtis
Senior resident Dr. Samantha Curtis has won the 2024 Med-Peds Program Director Association (MPPDA) Walter W. Tunnessen, Jr. Award honoring a graduating medicine-pediatric resident for innovative accomplishments in education, clinical care, and advocacy.