Division News

Dr. Ranee Chatterjee, associate professor of medicine (general internal medicine), was honored last week to be one of six researchers from Duke invited to give a presentation during the second annual Duke University School of Medicine Research Week.

Nia S. Mitchell, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine) will serve as the Assistant Program Director for Resident Research and Scholarship in the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program effective Nov. 1, 2020.

When we asked Dr. Lynn Bowlby, medical director of the Duke Outpatient Clinic, whether the new interns had seen her without a mask, she told us that “it actually took us a few weeks to realize we had never seen the interns without a mask on, nor they us!“

A team of Duke Health clinicians that include faculty from the Department of Medicine are working diligently in a collaborative effort to enroll patients in a randomized, controlled trial, testing a novel antibody treatment for COVID-19.

A warm welcome to new Department of Medicine faculty members who started in September 2020!

The National HeRO Award, given by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is the highest level of recognition available for a “high reliability organization” (HRO) within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). High reliability aims are those for a health system that strive to continuously improve processes. These seek to maximize safety and minimize harm to achieve the goal of ensuring every patient receives excellent care every time.

Many have heard of the All of Us Research Program, a historic effort by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to gather data from one million or more people living in the United States to accelerate research and improve health for us all. All of Us and precision medicine intend to treat each person as an individual.

DGIM extends a welcome greeting to 7 new members. Their clinical work spans across the Durham VA, DUH Hospital Medicine, and Palliative Care. Blair Glasgo, MD, is a graduate of Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed residency training at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. She was most recently a staff hospitalist at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center in Fort Hood, Texas. Dr. Glasgo has joined the Durham VA as a hospitalist.

Dr. Kenneth Goldberg, Duke Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of Staff for the Durham VA Medical Center, was recently named to the Strategic Academic Advisory Council in the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

The transition between pre-clinical and clinical education is often challenging for medical students. This is the ninth straight year Dr. Saumil Chudgar and Dr. Aubrey Jolly Graham have led the Clinical Skills Intensive (CSI), a 3-week full-time course that helps to prepare new second-year medical students for their clinical education.