Division News

Type 2 diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the major cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States and is a growing global health concern accounting for over half of all new cases and over $10 billion in medical expenditures each year. While many people with diabetes do not develop kidney disease, those who do have very poor outcomes. Among those with DKD, about 60% have uncontrolled hypertension that increases the risk of ESRD, cardiovascular events and death.

Typically editorial board members for medical journals are chosen from the population of excellent reviewers. No exception for Virginia Wang, PhD who recently accepted an invitation to be on the editorial board of BMC Nephrology as Associate Editor of the Epidemiology and Outcomes Section.

Keisha Bentley-Edwards, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, has joined the Division of General Internal Medicine from The University of Texas at Austin, where she was an assistant professor in educational psychology.

DukeHealth has been featured in a Health Equity Virtual Site Visit (VSV), an initiative of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The AAMC developed the VSV in 2014 to highlight the outstanding health equity research portfolio at its member institutions.

Care for Your Mind™ is a place where those affected by the mental health care system can openly discuss its strengths and weaknesses with thought leaders and advocates so that the readers can collaboratively build a solution that works.

With many physicians using the Medical Knowledge Self-Assesment Program (MKSAP), and the Duke Primary Care Clinic at Pickett Road looking for a way to get attendings and learners together to review common topics and issues relevant to their internal medicine practice, the answer seemed obvious. Many use the MKSAP review texts and questions to cover topics and areas of interest and weakness, and now you can do it in a group setting.

Kathleen Batley, MD (left) Dr. Batley comes from the University of Colorado and just completed her Internal Medicine Residency. She is coming to Duke as a Medical Instructor for the Duke University Hospital group of Hospital Medicine. Gerardo E. Alcazar, MD (center) Dr. Alcazar just finished his Internal Medicine residency at the University of Arizona and now joins Duke University Hospital as a Medical Instructor for Hospital Medicine.

Did you know this? In recognition of the important contributions to teaching, research and patient care, our Medicine Chief Residents receive academic appointments as “Medical Instructors” in the Division of General Internal Medicine. In fact, many former Chiefs fill our leadership ranks at Duke. [Tip: Dr. Oddone was a Duke Chief. We are #ProudtobeGIM] The 2016-17 Medicine Chief Residents, pictured from left to right: Alyson McGhan, MD, Matthew Atkins, MD, Adam Banks, MD, and Aparna Swaminathan, MD.

      Can you believe we are already over halfway through 2016?! Let’s take a look back and see our most viewed news stories so far in 2016! We counted your click rate from eNews to the articles. Of course, the most popular always are Spotlights of our faculty and staff and announcements of the new faculty. Excluding those Spotlights and announcements, we found you are reading news articles, listed from 5th to 1st place in popularity:

Residents in the internal medicine training program see patients regularly at one of three continuity clinic sites. The ambulatory portion of their education is unique in allowing a longitudinal view of residents’ progress and building longer term relationships with both faculty and patients. Many DGIM faculty carve out a portion of their time to precept residents during their clinics. We would like to take a moment to acknowledge our division faculty who have brought their skill and dedication to teaching residents in the clinic setting this year.