Division News

The Division of General Internal Medicine hosted a wine and cheese event that included a poster session and time to socialize.

Dr. Susanne Haga of the Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine (CAGPM) and Dr. Greg Wray of the Center for Genomic and Computation Biology (GCB) were awarded an NIH R25 for an undergraduate summer program for underrepresented minority students. The “Summer Scholars Program in Genome Sciences and Medicine” is supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute.

The annual Duke GIM Wine & Cheese event is just around the corner, taking place this Wednesday, September 20 from 4:30 - 6 PM in the Great Hall inside the Trent Semans Center. Contact GIM Program DIrector, Megan Churchill, to RSVP if you haven't already. 

Here are 5 things you can expect at this year's event: 

We are proud to announce three new members who have joined the division of General Internal Medicine.

The Duke Global Health Institute's Evidence Lab recently developed a series of tools to help social enterprises in healthcare evaluate their services, products and/or technologies. One of the evaluation tools (#3 of 5) was co-authored by GIM's own Santanu Datta, PhD. 

We are proud to show off some of the work Dr. Clarissa Diamantidis has been leading, including her work as prinicpal investigator on a research study on Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).

How do you communicate information to a clinic that includes around 10 non-clinical staff, 10 nurses/medical assistants, 70 residents, 6 attendings, multiple preceptors, and numerous clinicians from many other disciplines?  That’s been an on-going discussion at the DOC and now the team is trying something new! 

Important information and dates for the Society of General Internal Medicine 2018 (SGIM18) Annual Meeting and the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM)

Virginia Wang, PhD, Clarissa Diamantidis, MD, et al. authored a recent research article in BMC Nephrology entitled, Minding the gap and overlap: a literature review of fragmentation of primary care for chronic dialysis patients. The paper looks at the collaboration and communication of primary care physicians (PCPs) and nephrologists in patients with end-stage renal disease. 

Clinician researcher, Kevin Shah, MD, isn't new to Duke GIM, but he did recently transition to a regular rank faculty member in the division. Learn more about him in our interview!