Division News

Rowena Dolor, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine tells us all about the recent PCORI 2016 Annual Meeting that took place November 17-19 in National Harbor, Maryland. 

The European Society for Patient Adherence, COMpliance, and Persistence (ESPACOMP) held their 20th annual meeting in Lisbon, Portugal on November 17-19.  Leah Zullig, PhD, and Hayden Boswoth, PhD, were each in attendance and contributed to the event! 

Dr. Diamantidis, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke General Internal Medicine, reports on recent American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week event.

What better way to understand what is important to the community than engaging with them directly?

In October 2016, Allison Bolton, MD, became a faculty member in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She is a clinician-educator and Hospitalist at Duke University Hospital.

Congratulations to the following faculty members who have received promotions in the division of General Internal Medicine.

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.