Division News


Duke Hospital Medicine - Mentors at Work

Three of the top-five finalists in the recent poster competition, sponsored by the Triangle Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), were submissions from Duke Hospital Medicine. A common theme for these, and all the hospitalist submissions, was successful mentorship.

 
The top finalists and their mentors

Faculty Spotlight: Pahresah Roomiany, MD

We are privileged again to present a faculty spotlight from general internal medicine. We believe you will be intrigued reading about the life and career path of Pahresah Roomiany, MD, assistant professor of medicine and a hospitalist physician at Durham Regional Hospital. To get to know her better we asked several questions.

Has the new intern ever seen you without a mask?

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!“

Medicine faculty part of ACTIV-3 trial team lauded by NIH

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.

New Faculty: September 2020

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

Two from Durham VA Health Care receive national awards

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.