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.
Dr. Conroy presenting at Duke
Dr. Molly Conroy, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Utah Health, will be visiting Duke at the end of August. We're delighted for her to learn more about our Division, Department, and School. During her visit she will also be giving two presentations (see below).
Presentations
Title: Pragmatic Approaches to Addressing Lifestyle in Primary Care using Technology and Team-Based Approaches
Summer Scholars Program wraps up with an end-of-the summer poster session
Welcome newest DGIM faculty members
Help us welcome 5 new faculty members to our division!
Alisha Benner, MD, joins our faculty as a Palliative Care Hospitalist at Duke Raleigh Hospital. She comes to us from Aspire Health where she was a lead physician. Dr. Benner completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and her Palliative Care Fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill.
GIM Funding Awards - 2nd Quarter 2019
Farr Curlin, MD, has received an award from the Greenwall Foundation for a project entitled "Stemming the Opioid Epidemic." Total funding will be $216,629
Feeney + Shah honored with Clinical Innovation Awards
Duke Hospital Medicine has announced the recipients of their 2020 Clinical Innovation Awards (CIA)
DGIM authors in prestigious journals
In case you missed these, DGIM authors recently have appeared in JAMA, in the Annals of Internal Medicine, and also the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the official journal of the Society of General Internal Medicine. [See citations below. Duke GIM author names are bolded.]
JAMA
Bring your research to life with a video abstract
Video abstracts are a wonderful way to introduce an article, outlining what the research is about and why it's important. Learn how to create one!
DGIM group in Annals IM: Self Management of Epilepsy
Systematic review in the Annals of Internal Medicine: self-management strategies modestly improve the quality of life for adults with epilepsy, but are unlikely to reduce seizure rates.
Duke National Clinician Scholars Arrive
The four scholars from The National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) have arrived at Duke and are ready to get going on their projects!