Division News

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. 

Here’s the question: is the health of a neighborhood improving or are healthier people displacing long term residents? This is the subject of research by Nrupen Bhavsar, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (general internal medicine). Bhavsar already is establishing himself as an investigator about the methodological limitations of the EHR and here is another insight, the use of data to understand population health.

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.”

Seriously. We want to raise awareness about ProudToBeGIM Week which is this week, February 25 – March 1, 2019.

Here’s the idea: we challenge you to post a short video (<1 minute) or a few words and perhaps an action photo to describe why you love being GIM. Then challenge 3 other GIM Twitter colleagues to do the same.

For this Spotlight we caught up with Ashley Cabacungan, a GIM staff member who joined our Division of General Internal Medicine in August of 2017. Ashley graduated from East Carolina University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health Studies and a concentration in Community Health.

We spied tweets from this event and asked Dr. Sata to fill us in!

This past week, February 13, 2019, over 50 local hospitalists, both physicians and advanced practitioners, members of the NC Triangle chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine (#TriangleSHM), met for a business meeting at the Embassy Suites in Brier Creek. Our photo to the right shows the outgoing Chapter president, Dr. Mike Craig (UNC), outgoing secretary, Dr. Nadia Pasha (Duke), guest speaker, Dr. Lenny Feldman (Hopkins), and incoming president, Dr. Suchita Sata (Duke).

We asked Dr. Karen Goldstein to tell us about new leadership in this remarkable Durham ESP center and to catch us up about her own research on topics related to patient-centered interventions and healthcare disparities.

Submitted by Karen Goldstein, MD, assistant professor of medicine, general internal medicine

The temperature was in the low 40's when four clinicians from the GIM "DOC" clinic donned white coats over warm clothing to join the 13th Annual Moral March on Raleigh. They met, some with their children, on downtown Fayetteville Street last Saturday, February 9, 2019, to march to the NC State Capitol. This was a rally sponsored by the state NAACP chapter to raise awareness about racial and social injustice.

For this faculty spotlight, we are privileged to present Dr. Ranee Chatterjee (Montgomery). We want to introduce her personally and celebrate her new achievements. Notice how research throughout the health system is tapping into Chatterjee's talent for bridging clinical practice in collaboration with clinical research.

We are proud to highlight that the Duke Clinical Leadership Program (DCLP), class of 2019, includes two from the division of general internal medicine — Daniella Zipkin, MD and Megan Brooks, MD, MPH (Hospitalist).