Division News

Duke Hospital Medicine sponsored a special training last week for physicians to get their "DATA 2000 waiver". Such certification allows clinicians to prescribe buprenorphine which is used to treat opioid use disorder. Buprenorphine has a much lower risk of overdose compared to methadone but previously was limited to treatment programs only.

Nia S. Mitchell, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine, division of general internal medicine, was an invited speaker last week at Wake Forest for their Seminar Series in the Center on Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism. The title of her presentation was “Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS): an option to treat obesity in the underserved.”

We spied tweets from this event and asked Dr. Sata to fill us in! This past week, February 13, 2019, over 50 local hospitalists, both physicians and advanced practitioners, members of the NC Triangle chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine (#TriangleSHM), met for a business meeting at the Embassy Suites in Brier Creek. Our photo to the right shows the outgoing Chapter president, Dr. Mike Craig (UNC), outgoing secretary, Dr. Nadia Pasha (Duke), guest speaker, Dr. Lenny Feldman (Hopkins), and incoming president, Dr. Suchita Sata (Duke).

For this faculty spotlight, we are privileged to present Dr. Ranee Chatterjee (Montgomery). We want to introduce her personally and celebrate her new achievements. Notice how research throughout the health system is tapping into Chatterjee's talent for bridging clinical practice in collaboration with clinical research.

What is it about lifestyle and the effect on illness? The research published by Dr. Oliver Glass provides insight for us and about his interest in the subject.

We are excited to announce that our Division has an especially large presence as leaders and educators for the upcoming 2019 Annual Scientific Session of the North Carolina Chapter of the American College of Physicians. This event will take place in the nearby Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley Hotel on February 22-23, 2019.

We are moving this week, effective January 16, 2019! We are very excited about the new setting. Won't you come visit us? The new location is the 200 Morris Building on Morris Street in downtown Durham. Both the physical location and the external mailing address are: Division of General Internal Medicine Duke University School of Medicine 200 Morris Street, 3rd floor Durham, NC, 27701 (919) 681-6491 Driving Directions to 200 Morris

One of our favorite things each year is to look back and re-read news stories from the past year, those stories, pictures, and videos that especially caught our readers' attention. Our faculty and staff spotlights, as well as announcements of new faculty and staff members, account for many of our "most viewed" stories, but 2018 was an exciting year for other Duke GIM news. Here's what you clicked most, starting with the DGIM eNews story most clicked by our readers:

Our congratulations to Nrupen Bhavsar, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (general internal medicine), the recipient of a Career Development Award for his application titled "Addressing bias from missing data in EHR based studies of CVD”. “Data from the electronic health records (EHR) are increasingly being used for clinical research,” Bhavsar said, “yet there is limited information on the best approaches to address the methodological limitations of the EHR, such as missing data.”

Need a medical reason for a massage? A new report just published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine suggests massage could complement treatment for patients with knee osteoarthritis.