Division News

Nia Mitchell, MD, joined the division almost a year ago as a researcher and as a clinician. Read more about her in this faculty spotlight!

Obesity is one of Dr. Matthew Maciejewski's main research areas, which is why it was no surprise when we saw two recent articles on this topic published in The Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM). Both e-pubs ahead of print, to be published in the April issue of JGIM. Read all about them here. 

Professor of Medicine, Hayden Bosworth, PhD, is a featured speaker for the upcoming 8th Patient Adherence and Access Summit in Philadelphia on March 20-21.

Dr. Nathan Gray, a Medical Instructor in DGIM, is lead author on a research letter published February 6, 2017 in JAMA Internal Medicine, entitled “Hospice Access for Undocumented Immigrants”.

What do bicycle helmets, healthcare, unnecessary care, and income inequality all have in common? They are all topics in recent articles written by Dr. Peter Ubel and featured in Forbes.

Every March since 2013, the American Journal of Kidney Disease (AJKD) blog transforms into the central headquarters for an evidence based, non-commercial, medical education experiment in leveraging the tools of social media, interactivity, and gamification to teach the latest advances and the most important breakthroughs in nephrology.

Five teams from the Department of Medicine have received 2017 Innovation awards from Duke Institute for Health Innovation.

Dr. Lynn Bowlby, DGIM Associate Professor, and her research team, have been selected for $134,000 of federal funding from the Duke Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) for their project entitled, “Integration of Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy Care in the Patient Centered Medical Home”.

A low-cost program for maintaining weight loss. That’s what our DGIM researchers learned and published February 21, 2017, online in the prestigious medical journal, the Annals of Internal Medicine. The senior author, Dr. Will Yancy, Jr., is joined by 8 others from Duke, plus one formerly from Duke, the paper’s first author, Dr. Corinne Voils.

Adam Perlman, MD, has recently accepted a position to develop a next generation well-being center near Charleston, South Carolina, with a company called Journey; he will be the CEO and Co-Founder. He still plans on staying connected with Duke though, and will continue as an adjunct associate professor as well as lead the Leadership Program for Integrative Health that he developed here at Duke.