Sata reports on HM2019
Hear all about what took place at the recent hospital medicine annual meeting
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.
Duke Palliative Care faculty give national meeting presentations
Duke Palliative Care is part of our division of general internal medicine. While many in palliative care are generalists, the team also includes other specialists, some from geriatrics, oncology, and pediatrics. The leader of Duke Palliative Care is David Casarett, MD, professor of medicine (general internal medicine).
DOM faculty recognized Duke OLV's 'Celebrating Women in Innovation' feature
The Duke Office of Licensing and Ventures has recognized 31 women who are innovative, collaborative, forward-thinking, and strong leaders on the cutting edge of technology and therapeutics. Among them are five faculty from the Department of Medicine: Martha Adams, MD; Kim Blackwell, MD; Kathleen Cooney, MD; Jennifer Freedman, MD; and Lori Orlando, MD.