Division News

Megan Brooks, MD, MPH is a medical instructor in the Department of Medicine. She teaches second-year medical students, coordinates care plans, helps develop the curriculum for the Duke Physician Assistant (PA) hospital medicine rotation, and sees patients with everything from heart failure to complications of knee replacement.

Dean Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, has announced that L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, will serve as the contact principal investigator for Duke’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), effective March 1, 2015. Dr.

Congratulations to Jennifer Gierisch, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, who has been appointed associate director of the Durham VA Evidence-based Synthesis Program.

Please join us in welcoming the four newest members of the Division of General Internal Medicine. Together they have varied and distinguished backgrounds that range from psychiatry and internal medicine, to general surgery, to teaching residents. The latest additions to the division include:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are funding research to rigorously evaluate structural, economic, environmental, or policy strategies for the primary prevention of intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence (IPV and/or SV). Up to $400,000 for the first year will be awarded. Letters of intent are due by February 6; applications are due by March 5. Read the full announcement.

The powerpoint presentation from Leah Zullig's, PhD, WIP talk on evaluating and building cancer registries in Tanzania are now available for download. Dr. Zullig's talk,

 This week, JAMA published an article written by William Yancy,MD, Matthew Maciejewski, PhD, and others showing between bariatric surgery and increased long-term survival among obese middle-aged patients in the VA health system.

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) has selected Jason Webb, MD, as an inspiring Hospice and Palliative Leader under the age of 40. Candidates were evaluated based on their work within the AAHPM, educating others within the field, participating in charitable work, mentoring of residents or students, and other professional accomplishments.

The NIH’s Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects are funding  practical and potentially sustainable strategies, delivered in routine clinical care settings, to improve processes of care and health outcomes of individuals who are at risk for or have diabetes. Applications are due by March 2, 2015. Read more. 

The American Medical Informatics Association’s Clinical Translational Science Community (CTS-AMIA) is offering  “NICHD’s Clinical Trials Database,” a free webinar for members on January 9 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. CTS-AMIA is a community of practice and research for translational informaticians and researchers specifically professionals associated with CTSA and CTSI sites.