First quarter 2018 - GIM funding awards
Congratulations to three of our General Internal Medicine faculty members who are recipients of recent research funding!
Duke at SHM 2018
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!
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Health Optimization Program for Elders (HOPE) – Improving Transitions from Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facility |
Bentley-Edwards on CBS News
GIM Assistant Professor of Medicine, Keisha Bentley_Edwatds, PhD, was recently interviewed by CBS News about a co-released report from the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and the Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
Schulman contributes JAMA Viewpoint
This week's issue of JAMA shows Dr. Schulman as co-author of a Viewpoint article titled "The Evolving Pharmaceutical Benefits Market."
SGIM 2018: Here's what's coming
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.
Boulware honored with Diversity in Nephrology award
L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, Chief of Duke General Internal Medicine, was selected as the recipient of the 3rd Annual Diversity in Nephrology Award by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Divisions of Nephrology. This award recognizes faculty members of diverse backgrounds who have made important contributions to the field of Nephrology. Boulware's main contributions have been in the areas of research and mentoring.
Congratulations, Chief Boulware!
Preparing for SGIM 2018
The annual meeting for the Society of General Internal Medicine is just around the corner, taking place April 11-14, 2018, in Denver, Colorado!
Gray's cartoon featured in AAHPM quarterly
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."
Ubel authors JAMA Surgery publication
How well do patients undergoing mastectomy (with or without immediate breast reconstruction) predict their future well-being?
Greenblatt comments on Trump's new plan to combat opioid crisis
After President Trump's speech regarding the opioid crisis earlier this week, Healio Family Medicine did a follow-up story asking addiction experts what they thought of the new plan (which is outlined in our infographic below). Among the experts was (no surprise here) Dr. Larry Greenblatt, DGIM Professor of Medicine.