Division News

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.

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.

Staying current in medicine? Yeah, that is much easier said than done. That's why back in March, we came up with a new section in our weekly DGIM eNews entitled, "Articles of Interest."  where we have been listing a few trending and potentially practice changing publications, updated bi-weekly. Catch up on the articles we have covered so far in the list below.

Our Division of General Internal Medicine uses a remarkable research software application, one that’s useful for both research and for administrative tasks. The software is REDCap, which stands for “Research Electronic Data Capture”.

Learn all about new faculty member and nocturnists, Jacqueline Bolwell, MD!

For 10 weeks, nine underclassmen from all over the country have been working in Duke labs. They presented their research findings in a poster presentation on July 25.

How much does a physician really need to know about their patient?

Dr. Hemming's answer? “Enough.”

Two of our faculty members were accepted in to the Duke AHEAD Certificate Program in Health Professions Education and Teaching.