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.
Dr. Lori Orlando, recipient of third large network grant
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.
Welcome New GIM Faculty Members
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.
Goldberg named to the Strategic Academic Advisory Council in the Department of Veterans Affairs
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.
Goldstein promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to Karen Goldstein, MD, who is receiving a distinguished academic promotion in the division of General Internal Medicine!
Bhavsar reports on NAHDO annual meeting
The National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) held their 4-day annual meeting virtually over the course of 2 weeks this year
Chudgar + Jolly Graham lead Clinical Skills Intensive for 9th year
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.
New Faculty: August 2020
A warm welcome to new Department of Medicine faculty members who started in August 2020!
Dr. Hemming explains the importance of voting
Political participation and practicing medicine? Do those things even go together? The correct answer is yes, and if the answer to that question was ever in doubt, along came 2020.
