Division News

The Duke Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development (Duke AHEAD) is calling for poster abstracts for its first Education Celebration. This celebration, which will be held November 13-14, will spotlight health-professions educators as well as their innovations and achievements. Abstracts are due Monday, August 11 and should advance innovation in education excellence.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is has issued a request for applications for SAMHSA Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants. These grants will offer $50,000 for projects that disseminate knowledge about practices within the mental health services and substance abuse prevention and treatment fields and integrate that knowledge into real-world practice. Applications are due by October 31.

Soko Setoguchi-Iwata, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine), has been awarded funding totaling around $1.05 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for a methods research project, Improving Methods for Linking Secondary Data Sources for CER/PCOR.

Each week, the Division of General Internal Medicine spotlights a different member of the division. This week, they talk with Paul Lantos, MD, about tracking and identifying Lyme disease, travel medicine, and his time in the Gambia, Peru and other locations.

Registration is open for the sixth annual Academic Hospitalist Academy (AHA), which will be held October 20-23 in Englewood, Colorado. Each year the AHA, sponsored by the Society of Hospital Medicine, provides academic hospitalists with educational, scholarly and professional development skills to advance their careers and begin a pathway to success in academic hospital medicine. Read more, or register.

For this week's faculty spotlight, we talk to Paul Lantos, MD, about tracking and identifying Lyme disease, travel medicine, and his time in the Gambia, Peru and other locations. How long have you been at Duke?

Karen Steinhauser, PhD, who recently served as an invited Palliative Medicine Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. While visiting, Dr. Steinhauser gave formal presentations and met one-on-one with faculty and students at the Program of Palliative Care Research. “I, and everyone with whom you met, are greatly appreciative of your willingness to share your time and expertise,” wrote Dr. Jean S. Kutner, MD, MSPH, Director of the Program in Palliative Care Research. Excellent work, Dr. Steinhauser!

The School of Medicine has announced the next cycle of the School of Medicine Bridge Funding program. This program funds investigators who have had a lapse in R01- or P01-level support. Eligible investigators may receive up to $100,000 per lapsed R01 grant or up to $200,000 per lapsed P01-grant. The next application deadline is Friday, August 15. For more information, download the attached announcement.

Ranee Chatterjee, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine), is among three Duke researchers selected to receive resources through the Duke Translational Medicine Institute's KL2 Scholar Program. The program, supported by Duke's Clinical and Translational Science Award, offers three years of funding, didactic coursework in clinical and translational research, mentorship and research assistance. Dr.

AcademyHealth has expanded its professional development program to include seven grants of $10,000 each for its members. These grants will support the early careers of new health services researchers by funding innovative, timely, and relevant research and translation activities. Read more.