Division News

Shelby Reed, PhD will be joining the Editorial Board of a journal rated as one of the top journals in the field, Health Services Research (HSR). HSR is published bimonthly and is the official journal of AcademyHealth, the professional organization of health services research and health policy.

Duke is practically a second home for Dr. David Simel and we are so grateful to have all those years of experience influencing so many – our students, residents, colleagues, even internationally as he mentors others since1994 becoming the Editor of the JAMA Rational Clinical Examination Series! Here are the questions we asked Dr. Simel. How long have you been at Duke?

Matthew Maciejewski, PhD, is joining the Editorial Board of Health Services Research (HSR), a journal rated as one of the top journals in the field. HSR is published bimonthly and is the official journal of AcademyHealth, the professional organization of health services research and health policy.

General Internal Medicine is pleased to welcome its newest faculty member: Asheley Skinner, PhD.

New, in Annals of Internal Medicine: Emanuel EJ, Ubel PA, Kessler JB, Meyer G, Muller RW, Navathe AS, et al. Using Behavioral Economics to Design Physician Incentives That Deliver High-Value Care. Ann Intern Med. 2016;164:114-119. doi:10.7326/M15-1330 [Full Text]

Last week’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has it’s theme as death, dying and the end of life. Of the eight Viewpoint articles in this issue, one contribution comes from Duke GIM, Dr. Farr Curlin, along with Y Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH, at George Mason University.

Mark Bettger became part of the Duke community in 2012 and served as the Administrative Manager for the Duke Office of Clinical Research, DOCR. “While there I  provided fiscal and operational oversight for several organizational units under the Vice Dean for Clinical Research,” says Bettger. He just joined the Duke Division of General Internal Medicine as the new Sr.

Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Bae who has assumed a new role in quality as the DUHS Associate Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Patient Safety and Clinical Quality.

David Simel, MD, Chief of Medicine in the Durham VA, not only edits the Rational Clinical Examination Series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), he sometimes authors a topic as he did in the recent issues of November and December 2015. Kudos to Dr. Simel for this ongoing contribution to the practice of evidenced based medicine.

Big news about acceptances of submissions by our Duke GIM Hospitalists: Hospital Medicine 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for Hospital Medicine March 6-9, 2016 in San Diego     Breakout Session Jonathan Bae, MD Reducing Inpatient Mortality: A Standardized Approach to Identify Preventable Deaths” Clinical Vignettes Pooh Setji, MD Bountiful Harvest: A Rare Case of an Obstructing Colonic Phytobezoar