Division News

Dr. L. Ebony Boulware directs the new Duke Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research (CHOIR). Learn more about it here!

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.

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

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. 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

Eight underclassmen from universities across North Carolina spent their summer at Duke and North Carolina Central University (NCCU) getting their first dose of real lab experience

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

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.

Duke Hospital Medicine has announced the recipients of their 2020 Clinical Innovation Awards (CIA)

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.]

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JAMA