Division News

A new quality improvement initiative to improve care for hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and withdrawal just launched in July at Duke University Hospital. Project COMET stands for Caring for Patients with Opioid Misuse through Evidence-Based Treatment and is led by GIM Medical Instructors, Dana Clifton, MD, and Noel Ivey, MD. 

We are proud to welcome 3 new faculty members to the Division of General Internal Medicine

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

One day each week, I am home with kids.  I get lunches made, send the older ones off on the bus, get my younger child through his morning routine, then bring him along as I do groceries and get the routine household chores done, making snacks, cleaning up, shuttling kids back and forth to practices and activities.  It puts me in an active role with my kids that I always want

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

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.

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."

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.

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

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.