Julia Gamble named Practice Nurse of the Year by NCNA
Julia Gamble, NP, an Advance Practice Provider at the Duke Outpatient Clinic was named Practice Nurse of the Year by the North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA).
2019 Flu Vaccinations
It's that time of year again to get your flu vaccination. Employees required to be vaccinated must be compliant by by 10 a.m. on Nov. 5, 2019.
Staff Spotlight: Julia Gamble, NP
Meet Julia, an Advance Practice Provider at the Duke Outpatient Clinic!
Dr. Syed guest hosts on The Curbsiders podcast
Fatima Syed, MD, MSc, is a Consulting Associate in Duke GIM and works as an internist at the Pickett Road Clinic. Dr. Syed was recently featured as a co-host on the popular Internal Medicine podcast The Curbsiders.
Rescheduled: 2019 Wine, Cheese, + Posters event
Don't miss our wine, cheese, and poster social rescheduled for October 30th!
Diamantidis and Kipnes promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to Clarissa Diamantidis, MD, and Joanna Kipnes, MD, MS who are being promoted to Associate Professor, effective September 1, 2019.
New Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research Launches
Dr. L. Ebony Boulware directs the new Duke Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research (CHOIR). Learn more about it here!
Kevin Shah joins department's clinical leadership team
Kevin Shah, MD, MBA, has been appointed to serve as Medical Director for Primary Clinical Services in the Department of Medicine, effective July 1, announced Kathleen Cooney, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine.
This new position will be part of the clinical leadership team led by Chetan Patel, MD, vice chair for clinical affairs.
Gray's comic in the LA Times
Palliative Care physician and professional cartoonist Nathan Gray, MD just had his work featured in the LA TImes! This Op-Ed he created was in collaboration with a prior Radiation-Oncology fellow about her story of financial toxicity from Cancer Care. This powerful story discusses how a young widow, who is now an oncologist, struggled with grief and medical debt when she lost her husband to cancer
Curlin's recent funding award
What stands in the way of cooperation between clinicians and community stakeholders responding to the opioid epidemic, and how can these obstacles be overcome?
GIM Professor of Medicine, Farr Curlin, MD, is the Principal Investigator on a research team studying just that. The team was recently awarded funding by the Greenwall Foundation for their project entitled, "Toward Effective Cooperation between Clinical and Other Community Stakeholders Committed to Stemming the Opioid Epidemic." The total funding for this project will be $216,629.