Gray's graphic medicine
Dr. Nathan Gray has been hard at work on recent drawings and teaching sessions
Bentley-Edwards receives mentorship award
Keisha Bentley-Edwards, PhD, receives the Distinguished Service Award from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundations's New Connections Program
Alspaugh and Chudgar receive 2019 Golden Apple Awards
Andrew Alspaugh, MD, and Saumil Chudgar, MD, MS, have been recognized with Golden Apple Awards by the Duke School of Medicine medical students.
Henderson leads Durham VA Ambulatory Care Service
Wendy Henderson, MD, was recently appointed as the new Associate Chief of Staff for Ambulatory Care Services at the Durham VA Medical Center.
Get ready for SGIM 2019!
The annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine is coming up, and we are beyond excited!
Jolly Graham and O'Brien receive DIHI innovation awards
The Duke Institute for Health Innovation(DIHI) has announced recipients of their 2019 Innovation Awards. Among the 10 recipients were 2 in DGIM, listed below! These awards support high-potential care delivery innovation projects in the areas of population health and analytics, novel patient interactions, new and team-based models of care, and optimization of patient flow. This is the sixth year that the institute has funded projects through a call for innovation applications (RFA) across Duke Health.
Hospital Medicine sponsors a certification, a major step fighting opioid addiction
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.
Joint Duke-UNC event celebrates strengths of GIM
Submitted by Patrick Hemming, MD, assistant professor of medicine (general internal medicine)
This past Wednesday, over 60 faculty, students and residents from Duke and UNC gathered at the University Club in Durham for our inaugural #ProudtobeGIM gathering. We had a great time as you can see from our photos. If you took pictures yourself, please feel free to share or tweet as part of the nationwide campaign.
Mitchell gives obesity seminar at Wake Forest
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.”