Division News

The 2017 Duke GME High Value Care Quality Improvement Competition recently presented a $3000 award to DGIM for a new effort: “Improving the Value of Resident-Provided Primary Care through Population Health Tools: A Quality Improvement Project".

Michael Merson, MD, Professor of Medicine and member of the Division of General Internal Medicine, received one of the six distinguished alumni awards from the Duke Medical Alumni Association during Medical Alumni Weekend in November.

This week we learned from Dr. Saumil Chudgar about a perspective paper published in the current issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Drs. Lynn Bowlby (of Duke GIM) and Robin Turner (of Duke Palliative Care) presented a research poster at the Palliative and Supportive Care and Oncology Symposium.

Congratulations to four general medicine faculty members who are recipients of research funding since July 2017

Duke Health has announced a new class of the Duke Clinical Leadership Program (DCLP), including eight faculty from the Department of Medicine. The 26 clinicians in the 2018 class will join the ranks of the 169 fellows who completed the DCLP program during its first seven years. 

Simel co-authors a recent JAMA Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review in JAMA

Lunyera reports on American Society of Nephrology's Annual Kidney Week Meeting, which took place Tuesday, October 31 - Sunday, November 5, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

David Casarett, MD, section chief of Palliative Care, and Arif Kamal, MD, MHS, MBA, associate professor of medicine (Medical Oncology), are among 30 individuals who have been recognized by the American Academcy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine as "Visionaries in Hospice and Palliative Medicine."

Duke GIM has recently received two generous philanthropic gifts that will help accelerate our Division: one for the Duke Diet and Fitness Center and one for Duke Primary Care.