Division News

Congratulations to three of our faculty members who are receiving distinguished academic promotions in the division of General Internal Medicine (GIM)!

Peer reviewer volunteers are needed to review Clinical Vignettes, Innovations in Healthcare Delivery, 

Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine faculty member, Ephraim Tsalik, MD, PhD, has received a grant from the Department of Defense to pursue, “Rapid, point-of-care, host gene expression test for presymptomatic viral infection and to distinguish bacterial from viral illness.”

Jennifer Doudna, PhD, professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, is a leading figure in the CRISPR revolution.

Sutoidem Moses Akpanudo, MBBS, PhD, known as "Suto" to his colleagues, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in our division and is a hospitalist at Duke University Hospital. Learn more about Dr. Akpanudo in our interview below. 

What brought you to Duke?
I came to Duke hospital Medicine for the opportunity to engage in research as an academic hospitalist. I was also drawn to the area by the family friendly environment of the Research Triangle area

Dr. Lori Orlando, Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine), has been awarded $3.8 million in funding for a research grant (R01) titled “Deploying a genomic-medicine risk assessment model for diverse primary care populations and settings” from the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health. 

Director of the Precision Medicine Program in CAGPM, Lori Orlando, MD, MHS, MMCI, has received an R01 grant to pursue, "Deploying a genomic-medicine risk assessment model for diverse primary care populations and settings."

The Duke Division of General Internal Medicine once again had great representation at the Consortium of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (CLIC) this year. While the original plan for CLIC was to be in South Africa, the conference was moved to virtual. The hosts in Stellenbosch, South Africa, still grounded the conference in place and principles, sharing the concept of “Ubuntu”, which translates as, “a person is a person through other persons”.

Congratulations to David Edelman, MD, and Jennifer Gierisch, PhD, as well as the entire VA HSR&D Program for their recently approved renewal award for the Durham Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT) as a site for the Advanced Fellowship in Health Services Research and Development!

Cameron Miller, PhD, recently joined CAGPM as a Biostatistician III. To get to know Dr. Miller a little more, we asked him the following questions: