Division News

Dr. Nathan Gray, a Medical Instructor in DGIM, is lead author on a research letter published February 6, 2017 in JAMA Internal Medicine, entitled “Hospice Access for Undocumented Immigrants”.

What do bicycle helmets, healthcare, unnecessary care, and income inequality all have in common? They are all topics in recent articles written by Dr. Peter Ubel and featured in Forbes.

Every March since 2013, the American Journal of Kidney Disease (AJKD) blog transforms into the central headquarters for an evidence based, non-commercial, medical education experiment in leveraging the tools of social media, interactivity, and gamification to teach the latest advances and the most important breakthroughs in nephrology.

Joseph Lunyera, MBChB, joined Duke GIM back in November 2016. Learn more about him here! 

Five teams from the Department of Medicine have received 2017 Innovation awards from Duke Institute for Health Innovation.

The Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI) has announced that it will support high-potential care delivery innovation projects in the areas of population health and analytics, novel patient interactions, new and team-based models of care, and optimization of patient flow. Among the recipients were 3 projects that included members from Duke GIM!

Learn all about Palliative Care Specialist,  J. Trig Brown, MD, in this faculty spotlight.

We are pleased to announce the acceptance of Dr. Patrick Hemming to the WELL (Wellness Engaged Longitudinal Leaders) Program, which builds a community of “Wellness Champions”, from GIM and other primary care fields, who can improve worklife conditions at their home institution as well as take their knowledge to other institutions facing stress and burnout.

Dr. Kevin A. Schulman's 1999 publication in The New England Journal of Medicine was recently selected as one of the 50 most influential papers of the last 50 years by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at The University of Pennsylvania. The paper discussed the effect of racial and gender bias on clinical decision making. Read more and watch a brief video.

Dr. Lynn Bowlby, DGIM Associate Professor, and her research team, have been selected for $134,000 of federal funding from the Duke Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) for their project entitled, “Integration of Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy Care in the Patient Centered Medical Home”.