Division News

Singapore Ministry of Health Visit

Singaporean Minister of Health, Ong Ye Kung, led a delegation from the Ministry of Health, National University of Singapore (NUS), and Duke-NUS Medical School on a visit to Duke on Sept. 18 for a full day of meetings with leadership, faculty, and students. The crew visited the Duke Outpatient Clinic (DOC) to learn more about their population-health focused strategies for caring for individuals with high medical and psychosocial complexity. 

Duke GIM Welcomes Dr. Logan Adams

Duke General Internal Medicine is proud to welcome Dr. Logan Adams, who joined our faculty earlier this month.

Dr. Adams is originally from Lubbock, Texas where he completed his undergraduate at Lubbock Christian University and medical school at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. He is most recently coming from Boston where he completed an Internal Medicine Residency and Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Charles and Mehedint promoted to Assistant Professor

Congratulations to two general internal medicine (GIM) faculty who received promotions to Assistant Professor. These promotions were approved by the Duke University Board of Trustees during their meeting held August 18, 2023.

Katie Charles, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, effective May 1, 2023 

GIM welcomes two new members

Duke General Internal Medicine is proud to welcome two new members this month, one faculty member and one staff member. 

Jonathan Huang, MD - Hospitalist

Dr. Huang joins us from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital where he completed his Internal Medicine residency program. He now joins us as a Hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital.


Dussault Named Young Investigator of the Year by SSCI

Internal Medicine Resident (PGY-2), Nicole Dussault, MD, was recognized with the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (SSCI) Young Investigator of the Year Award at the Southern Society for General Internal Medicine (SSGIM) annual meeting. Dussault's abstract, "Barriers to Advanced Care Planning in the Primary Care Continuity Clinic", was chosen as the best trainee abstract submitted at SSGIM. 

Q&A on Context Matters: Kicking off Black History Month with Keisha Bentley-Edwards

Developmental psychologist Keisha Leanne Bentley-Edwards, PhD, MA, is an associate professor in the division of General Internal Medicine, the Associate Director of Research and the Director of the Health Equity Working Group for Duke’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.