Division News

Allison Bolton, MD, recently joined our division as a Medical Instructor and Hospitalist for Duke University Hospital.  She comes to us from Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula, Mississippi where she has been a Hospitalist since 2013. Dr. Bolton received her Doctor of Medicine in Internal Medicine from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. She completed her residency and internal medicine internship at the University of South Alabama Medical Center. Welcome to Duke GIM, Dr. Bolton!

Clarissa Diamantidis, MD, was recently selected by the Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists at Duke for her proposal "Educational Intervention to Improve Patient Safety among Hospitalized Acute Kidney Injury Survivors." Dr.

Congratulations to these general medicine faculty members who are recipients of recent research funding: L. Ebony Boulware received awards from: the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Bruce Burnett IPA." Total funding will be $185,776. the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Duke CTSA (UL1): Statistical methods for complex data in CV disease research." Total funding will be $423,726. Lesley H. Curtis received awards from:

The Duke Department of Medicine Faculty Development Academy launched in October 2011 and addresses individual faculty development needs, supplements on-going mentorship, and develops faculty in four high priority career tracks. Congratulations to the following GIM faculty members chosen to join the academy:  Basic/Translational Science Research   Elizabeth Cirulli, PhD

Leah Zullig, PhD, a health services researcher from DGIM, just returned from an exciting trip to Israel. While there, she and Avi Leader, MD, a hematologist from the Davidoff Cancer Center in Israel, jointly organized the first-ever Israeli conference on medication adherence in hematology and oncology.

Jennifer St Clair-Russell, PhD, joined our division in September. To get to know her a little more, we asked her the following questions: Where do you work?  My office is on the 5th floor of the NC Mutual Building. What is your title?  Medical Instructor What are your interests are in the field? Patient/provider communication, specifically regarding treatment options, including conservative management in renal failure

Five from GIM receive awards at division poster session.

Matthew Maciejewski, PhD, professor of medicine (Duke General Internal Medicine) is the recipient of a $2.2 million funding award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This research project will assess long-term mental health outcomes of veterans who have undergone bariatric surgery between 2000-2016.

Duke Division of General Internal Medicine honors recipients of GIM Excellence Awards.

This blog post submitted by: Joseph Brogan, MD, Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Duke General Internal Medicine.