Division News

Wow! SGIM 2018 was an amazing submersion into what matters in general internal medicine. The theme for the annual meeting, which took place in Denver, Colorado this year, was Health IT: Empowering General Internists to Lead Digital Innovation.

Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA, GIM Professor of Medicine, co-authored a publication in Health Management Policy and Innovation (HMPI) entitled, "Leading Change – A National Survey of Chief Innovation Officers in Health Systems."

Last week you could have followed the entire 2018 annual conference of the Society of Hospital Medicine (#HM18) through the eyes of live tweeting by attendees, especially Duke hospitalist, Dr. Suchita Sata @SuchitaSata. Dr. Sata is a relative newbie to the Twitter stream yet we saw she was quick to pass along the pearls as she heard them plus photos that captured content and sometimes events with a bit of humor.

Congratulations to three of our General Internal Medicine faculty members who are recipients of recent research funding!

This week Medscape Medical News talked with Duke Hospitalist, Dr. Cara O’Brien about her award winning research.

The annual Society of Hospital Medicine Conference is going on now in Orlando, Florida. We are proud to see 20 of our Duke Hospital Medicine faculty members with presentations at the conference this year! Title Authors Type Date/Time Location Abstratct # Health Optimization Program for Elders (HOPE) – Improving Transitions from Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facility

This week's issue of JAMA shows Dr. Schulman as co-author of a Viewpoint article titled "The Evolving Pharmaceutical Benefits Market."

Health IT: Empowering General Internists to Lead Digital Innovation, that's what this years's annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine is about. The conference takes place later this week, April 11-14, in Denver, CO.

The annual meeting for the Society of General Internal Medicine is just around the corner, taking place April 11-14, 2018, in Denver, Colorado!

Nathan Gray, MD, has many talents. Not only is he a physician specializing in Palliative Care and Internal Medicine, he is also an amateur cartoonist. This time his work has been published in the most recent issue of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine's AAHPM Quarterly. His work entitled, Some Things Shouldn't be Animated, features a physician, a crying patient and an empathy robot with the caption: "I've never been good at giving bad news. Perhaps you'd like to spend a few minutes with our hospital's new empathy robot."