Division News

This blog post submitted by: Shelby Reed, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Duke General Internal Medicine, and newly elected President of ISPOR, 2017-2018.

Can smokers with a history of depression respond better to smoking cessation interventions that are combined with mood-management? Many think so, including Dr. Jennifer Gierisch, Prinicpal Investigator of the Quit Smoking Tele-Health study.

“The potential benefit of decreasing tobacco use among users with depression could be tremendous,” says Gierisch.

Hayden Bosworth, PhD, speaks with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about medication non-adherence. 

Corinne Voils, PhD, professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine), has been appointed as a Consulting Editor for Health Psychology. Her term begins January 1, 2017 and extends for two years.

Adam Perlman, MD, Executive Director of Duke Integrative Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine, has been invited to serve on the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health.

Copay assistance now = higher health care costs in the future. That is what Peter Ubel, MD, reports in new Annals of Internal Medicine article, an online first:

Ubel PA, Bach PB. Copay assistance for expensive drugs: a helping hand that raises costs [published online October 11, 2016]. Ann Intern Med. 2016; doi:10.7326/M16-1334. [Link]

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:

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.