Division News

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School @ Duke hosted its second annual quality symposium on April 20, 2016, showcasing the work of the 2015-2016 Quality & Innovation Scholars. These efforts were recognized with $3000 in scholarships to represent Duke at the 2016 IHI National Forum that takes place this December in Orlando, Florida. Multiple GIM members took part in this event.

Paul Lantos, MD, does quite a bit of research about tracking and identifying Lyme disease. His work was recently was published in a JAMA Diagnostic Test Interpretation, a new JAMA series in quiz format showing a  patient’s clinical presentation and test result(s).

Clinical researcher and faculty member of Duke GIM,  Kevin Schulman, MD, recently co-authored a perspective article in The News England Journal of Medicine entitled,  “Health Care Tax Inversions – Robbing Both Peter and Paul”. The other author on this article, Haider Javed Warraich, M.D, is a colleague of Schulman’s from Harvard where Schulman is a visiting professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School.

As you may know, David Simel, MD, Chief of Medicine in the Durham VA, is an editor of the Rational Clinical Examination Series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Meet Clay Musser, MD, a DGIM hospitalist and board certified clinical informatician. Clay is a well-respected leader in the deployment of Duke’s electronic medical record, Maestro Care. He contributes significantly to clinical content architecture across the entire enterprise of Duke. Notice the impact of mentors in his career path.

We are pleased to announce the SGIM acceptance of Daniella Zipkin, MD, to a three year term on the Education Committee. This particular committee is the most popular in SGIM and there were a limited number of openings.

Duke General Internal Medicine is pleased to announce the academic appointment of Kenneth C. Goldberg, MD, as Associate Professor, effective April 1, 2016. Last August Dr. Goldberg arrived as the new Chief of Staff of the Durham VA Medical Center.

Our own palliative care physician and amateur cartoonist, Nathan A Gray, MD, was recently featured in a web-only Annals Graphic Medicine, which is where Annals of Internal Medicine brings together original graphic narratives, comics, and other creative forms by those who provide or receive health care. These graphics address medically relevant topics—be they poignant, thought-provoking, or just plain entertaining.

30 papers in 60 minutes by Russ Altman, MD, PhD, all about Translational Bioinformatics Again, Dr. Altman, from Stanford University, presented the annual “Year in Review” to the AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science held in San Diego, March 21-24, 2016. Click here to his see his slides plus Endnote XML files for final papers.

Clinician, administrator, educator, wife, and mom are just some of her roles. Take a deeper dive in to the life of Marie Carlson, MD.