Division News

Will intervention lower Framingham Risk Score among patients with elevated, reversible cardiovascular risk?

Toni Cutson, MD, and Jason Webb, MD, have earned the designation of Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. The Academy is the professional organization for physicians who care for patients with serious illness. Advancement to fellowship status within the Academy honors dedication to and scholarship in the field of the hospice and palliative medicine.

Hospital Medicine - 2019 Annual Conference

The 2019 Society of Hospital Medicine will hold it's annual conference in National Harbor, Maryland on March 24-27, 2019. SHM is now accepting proposals for the 2019 Scientific Abstract and Poster Competition, known as Research, Innovations and Clinical Vignettes (RIV). The deadline to submit is Monday, December 3, 2018, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Register to attend by January 15, 2019 for early-bird rates.

We are pleased to announce four faculty promotions to Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, effective November 1, 2018!

Do these faces look familiar to you? These two physicians completed their Internal Medicine residency at Duke this past June and have now stepped into GIM faculty roles.

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) held their annual symposium this past week in San Francisco.

The National Human Genome Research Institute, which is part of National Institutes of Health, has awarded two grants to Department of Medicine faculty that will total about $9 million over five years.

Dr. Patrick Hemming tells GIMers why they should be voting in this year's election!

The Duke SoM RCR program is expanding to offer more options!