Division News

The Division of General Internal Medicine is pleased to share with you the first Annual Report for the 2020 calendar year.

Duke Health teamed up with the Latino Community Credit Union, through the LATIN-19 initiative, to create a vaccine clinic for Latinx community members.

Congratulations to Dr. Lawrence (Andy) Mumm on his promotion to Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, effective March 1, 2021. 

February 24th and 25th gave SGIM members a first: a fully virtual Southern Region Conference. Over the course of a day and a half, we got to hear an array of presentations and speeches from our colleagues. Participants joined from as far away as Texas and Kentucky, a chance for new connections with our near and far neighbors.

Congratulations to Dr. Lawrence (Andy) Mumm on his promotion to Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, effective March 1, 2021. 

Lawrence And Mumm, MD - Palliative Care

Dr. Mumm completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical Center in 2016, followed by a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, also at Duke, in 2017.  He was recruited to the Duke Division of General Internal Medicine as a Medical Instructor in Palliative Care in July, 2017.

The Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care was a 3-day virtual event that took place February 17-19 

The Duke Outpatient Clinic (DOC) developed an Equity Task Force during the summer of 2020 in an effort to dismantle racial inequity at the DOC and beyond. Their mission is to be anti-racist in patient care, clinical processes, administrative processes, and to demonstrate shared responsibility among all racial groups in addressing inequity.

There is a significant connection between housing stability and food access. Families experiencing financial hardship may have little money left for food after paying their rent or mortgage, or they may live in disinvested neighborhoods where access to healthy, affordable food is less likely. The current economic crisis caused by the pandemic has led to devastating consequences for those who were already struggling. 

A Durham-based COVID-19 vaccination event on Saturday was focused on helping at-risk residents who live in underserved communities. 

The location was Durham Medical Center at 4220 N Roxboro St from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Both Duke Outpatient Clinic and Duke Primary Care at Durham Medical Center partnered to make this event possible. Doctors from each clinic volunteered their time to help administer the vaccine, answer questions, and monitor the post vaccine room. Staff were very involved with education and clinic flow to help the patients move through the process. 

GIM Assistant Professor of Medicine, Suchita Shah Sata, MD, SFHM, was selected for the Senior Fellows Class of 2021 by the Society for Hospital Medicine (SHM). Those who have achieved this designation have a proven track record of promoting excellence, innovation and improving the quality of patient care in hospital medicine.