Division News

Friday morning, Sept 28, was the opportunity to hear discussions by Dr. David Casarett, Chief of Duke Palliative Medicine, as well as 12 different innovator teams who presented novel tools in the Duke Palliative Care toolkit at the Palliative Care Innovation Showcase.

Our Program Director, Megan Churchill, presents at first ever REDCap Day at Duke 

It's that time of year again to get your flu vaccination.

Cochrane UK hosted the 25th Cochrane Colloquium at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in Scotland, September 16-18. Among the attendees were 3 familiar faces of Duke: John Williams, MD (GIM), Karen Goldstein, MD (GIM), and Jennifer Gierisch, PhD (Population Health Sciences).

Poonam Sharma, MD, was selected as the recipient of the 3rd annual "Rising Star" Interprofessional Excellence Award 

Nrupen Bhavsar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, is first author of an original investigation reported in the health informatics section of JAMA Network Open, September 21, 2018. The paper is entitled Value of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in Predicting Risk of Outcomes in Studies That Use Electronic Health Record Data.

DGIM's 3rd annual wine, cheese, and poster event is coming up October 10! You do not want to miss it!

Help us congratulate four of our faculty members chosen to join this academy!

Sophomore Naeema Hopkins-Kotb started building her foundation in the 2018 Summer Scholars Program in Genome Sciences and Medicine, Now, she is continuing the research she began in the Summer Scholars Program through an independent study with mentor Dr. Beth Sullivan, associate professor of molecular genetics and microbiology.

Paul Lantos, MD, has been named a Chair on the Duke University Health System Institutional Review Board; he joins a team of 13 total chairs.