Division News

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:

Dr. Sonya Patel-Nguyen joined our division this past July after completing her combined medicine and pediatrics residency training at UNC Chapel Hill. 

Oh what fun, the DGIM holiday celebration is this week! You don't want to miss it!
The celebration will take place this Thursday, December 13th from 4:30-7:30 PM.

Location: The Kirby Horton Hall at Sarah P. Duke Gardens- 420 Anderson Street, Durham, NC, 27708

The Duke Division of General Internal Medicine journal club met December 4th at the home of GIM Assistant Professor, Jeannette Stein, MD.. Third year resident Joseph Plaksin, MD, led a spirited discussion on the topic of aspirin for primary prevention in diabetes.

Dr. Nathan Gray's new graphic medicine piece published this week in Topic Magazine's December issue.

Senior Ariel Kantor, has been awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.

D'Silva is a proud member of The Durham Medical Orchestra which started in 2010 with about 35 amateur musicians affiliated with Duke.

Sharma tells us highlights from Tuesday's Medicine Research Student-Faculty Mixer

In a recent Health Affairs blog post, Drs. Larry Greenblatt and Azalea Kim, urge clinicians and policy makers to develop best practices for assessing early opioid prescribing behaviors.