Division News

One of our favorite things every year is to look back and re-read some of our favorite news stories from the past year; those stories, pictures, and videos never disappoint.

Our faculty and staff spotlights, as well as our announcements of new faculty and staff members, are without a doubt some of our most-viewed stories. But 2020 was an exciting year for other Duke GIM news as well! Here are the top 10 news stories — those most clicked this year by our GIM eNews readers:

Over a year ago, in August 2019, Katherine Henderson began her chaplain internship at the Duke Outpatient Clinic (DOC) to help the patients cope with the challenges they were facing. This was a new idea that started with the vision of DOC Medical Director, Lynn Bowlby, MD. 

"My role, as I see it, is to hear the full story of [the patient's] despair," says Henderson. "I let them get it all the way out, and then explore their sources of strength to help them get through it."

William Yancy, MD, has received an award for his project “An Evaluation of Duke Weight Management Programs to Inform Development of a Collaborative Center,” through the PDC Outcomes Research Team (PORT). The PORT initiative seeks to provide Duke clinicians with reporting tools to enhance their productivity in data collection and analysis.

Dr. Yancy is an associate professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine) and program director for Duke Diet and Fitness Center.

David Ming, MD, and Nirmish Shah, MD, are part of the winning team for the Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal and Child Health Bureau's Grand Challenge competition for Care Coordination for Children with Special Health Care Needs.

The Division of General Internal Medicine wants to be first to announce and congratulate Dr. Gene Oddone on a standout career and to extend our best wishes for his retirement at the end of this month.

What a Career!

Many across the medical center acknowledge the privilege of working with Dr. Oddone. It is our honor to help celebrate. His accomplishments are formidable:

A team of staff at the Duke Outpatient Clinic, led by Lynn Bowlby, MD, were accepted to the IPE Advanced Certificate Program, sponsored by Duke AHEAD and the Duke Health inter-professional Education and Care (IPEC) Center.

Dr. Nia Mitchell is the Principal Investigator on a new research project funded by the Duke Cancer Institute addressing health disparities among African American breast cancer survivors. 

Celebrate! Kudos to the team, especially this set of Duke GIM authors. This week, according to Google Scholar, their paper about a structured PubMed search strategy has exceeded 1000 citations, an achievement by very very few publications!

Dr. Ebony Boulware is an author of a new JAMA editorial that was published online first on December 2

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