Division News

Congratulations to these general internal medicine faculty members who are recipients of research funding for the second and third quarter of 2020.

L. Ebony Boulware, MD, has received:

Ytina Mangum, MS, joined the Duke community in 2006 and worked as the Department of Surgery’s medical student coordinator. She recently transitioned from the Center of Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine (CAGPM) and Duke’s Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB) where she held the positions since 2014 of Sr. Business Manager and most recently the Director of Administration.

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

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.

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.

Ebony Boulware, MD, chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and vice-dean for translational science, is no stranger to studies to improve the quality and equity of health care and health outcomes for those affected by chronic illness including kidney disease. 
  

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