Division News

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”.

A low-cost program for maintaining weight loss. That’s what our DGIM researchers learned and published February 21, 2017, online in the prestigious medical journal, the Annals of Internal Medicine. The senior author, Dr. Will Yancy, Jr., is joined by 8 others from Duke, plus one formerly from Duke, the paper’s first author, Dr. Corinne Voils.

Adam Perlman, MD, has recently accepted a position to develop a next generation well-being center near Charleston, South Carolina, with a company called Journey; he will be the CEO and Co-Founder. He still plans on staying connected with Duke though, and will continue as an adjunct associate professor as well as lead the Leadership Program for Integrative Health that he developed here at Duke. 

DGIM held a faculty/resident meet and greet breakfast this past Friday before Medicine Grand Rounds. This was a wonderful way for the two groups to connect about research, career opportunities in the field, and discuss how they were #ProudToBeGIM! Don't miss the photo gallery

Clarissa Diamantidis, MD, is known for her passion for clinical research about health disparities and access to care. In the most recent issue of Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease (ACKD) our division is honored to see Dr. Diamantidis as a guest editor.

Duke general internal medicine Doctors David Simel and Joel Boggan are helping to forward best practice. Their paper about successfully achieving higher vaccination rates for asplenic patients was published online by the American Journal of Medicine on February 14.