Division News

Suchita Sata, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Duke General Internal Medicine and a Hospitalist at Duke University Hospital. She joined Duke GIM faculty in 2015. Learn all about her in our interview below

The Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) held their national conference this week in Washington, DC. During the event, George Jackson, PhD, was honored with the Article of the Year Award, which recognizes a single peer-reviewed publication related to the training and educational direction of future generations of PAs.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) held their annual IDWeek October 2-6 in Washington, DC.  

Dr. Oliver Glass is a co-investigator on a research project that just received funding from The Duke Endowment (TDE) for a project entitled, "Emergency Department Acupuncture to Reduce Acute Pain and Opioid Use."

Dr. Sata recognizes women across the department for Women In Medicine month!

Beginning this fall, the Precision Health and Medicine Bass Connections team will work to further develop and expand the infrastructure for the WearDuke Initiative – a campus initiative to promote student health awareness and engagement.

A few years ago, Dr. Paul Lantos received a Duke Education and Research in China (ERIC) grant to train students in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which are digital tools for disease mapping.

After Laura Caputo, MD, completed her Internal Medicine residency at Duke and became an attending physician at the Durham VA, she realized transitioning from learner to teacher was difficult and required a different skill set.

"I knew I could benefit from learning from those more experienced in teaching, and I figured if I felt that way, other people might as well."

- Laura Caputo, MD, GIM Assistant Professor of Medicine 

New to Duke? But, you work across the street in the Durham VA? We believe there are online Duke resources you may be missing. 

At this week's Duke AHEAD Education day, GIM faculty members, Drs. Patrick Hemming and Lynn Bowlby received a $500 curriculum development for a project entitled “Clinical Pastoral Education and Caring for Patients in the Outpatient Setting.”  This is a unique opportunity to improve the support of outpatients through the support of a chaplain.In this initiative, they are joined by team members Jan Dillard the Licensed Clinic