Perlman to serve on National Advisory Council
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.
Dr. Ubel in Annals: copay assistance raises costs
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]
Diamantidis selected for the Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists at Duke
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.
Welcome new faculty member Dr. Allison Bolton
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!
Third quarter 2016 GIM funding awards
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:
New GIM Faculty Spotlight: Jennifer St Clair-Russell, PhD
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
11 GIM faculty members selected to join Faculty Development Academy
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
Zullig organizes first-ever Israeli medication adherence conference
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.
Recap – 2016 Duke GIM Wine, Cheese + Posters
Five from GIM receive awards at division poster session.
Maciejewski awarded NIDA grant for $2.2 million
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.