Division News

We are especially honored to hear from Dr. Ryanne Wu, a GIM faculty member who recently returned to Duke after three years in Singapore. You will want read about the experience and the career impact for this clinician-researcher.

Submitted by Ryanne Wu, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine

Submitted by Patrick Hemming, MD, assistant professor of medicine, division of general internal medicine.

We are moving this week, effective January 16, 2019! We are very excited about the new setting. Won't you come visit us?

The new location is the 200 Morris Building on Morris Street in downtown Durham. Both the physical location and the external mailing address are:

Division of General Internal Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
200 Morris Street, 3rd floor
Durham, NC, 27701
(919) 681-6491

Driving Directions to 200 Morris

Congratulations to the following two faculty members who are receiving distinguished academic promotions in the division of General Internal Medicine!

One of our favorite things each year is to look back and re-read news stories from the past year, those stories, pictures, and videos that especially caught our readers' attention.

Our faculty and staff spotlights, as well as announcements of new faculty and staff members, account for many of our "most viewed" stories, but 2018 was an exciting year for other Duke GIM news. Here's what you clicked most, starting with the DGIM eNews story most clicked by our readers:

Our congratulations to Nrupen Bhavsar, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (general internal medicine), the recipient of a Career Development Award for his application titled "Addressing bias from missing data in EHR based studies of CVD”.

“Data from the electronic health records (EHR) are increasingly being used for clinical research,” Bhavsar said, “yet there is limited information on the best approaches to address the methodological limitations of the EHR, such as missing data.”

Need a medical reason for a massage? A new report just published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine suggests massage could complement treatment for patients with knee osteoarthritis.

The division of General Internal Medicine gathered at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens to celebrate the holiday season

We were delighted to receive this interview with Dr. Azalea Kim, a new DGIM faculty member in 2018. We hope you will enjoy getting to know her more personally as she relates her story to us.

Congratulations to these General Internal Medicine faculty members who were recipients of research funding from July through September 2018:

Nrupen Bhavsar, PhD, received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Addressing Bias from Missing Data in EHR Based Studies of CVD." Total funding will be $829,386.

L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, received two awards: