Division News

The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH),  with the National Institutes of Health and FDA Office on Minority Health, intends to publish a supplement issue on the science of eliminating health disparities. Original epidemiological, genetic, behavioral, social, and policy-oriented research articles, commentaries, perspectives, and critical reviews of major problem areas related to health disparities in the United States are invited. Papers are due by July 1.

The NIH is seeking Research Project Grant (R01) applications develop behavioral interventions for patients with comorbid chronic diseases and health conditions. Specifically, this FOA will support primary-care research using a multi-disease care management approach to improve health outcomes for individuals with three or more chronic health conditions. Read more.

The Cancer Prevention, Control, Behavioral Sciences, and Population Sciences Career Development Award (K07) will support the career development of junior investigators with research or health professional doctoral degrees who want to become academic researchers in cancer prevention, cancer control, or the behavioral or population sciences. Read more.

Northwestern University will hold a free webinar, "Advances in Person-Centered Outcome Measurement," from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 10.

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has issued a FOA to support research and development of devices, software, or technology that will optimize data collection for NIDDK clinical studies. Read more.

Dr. Lori Orlando received special recognition from the SGIM President, Dr. Eric Bass, for her leadership on the Annual Program Committee meeting from 2013 to 2014. Dr. Orlando co-chaired the Special Symposia events for the meeting, including several events on stakeholder engagement, personalized medicine, the affordable care act, and medical education. Dr. Bass cited Dr.

Are you reading, or have you read, an article, book, or webpage that you think would be of interest to the rest of the Division? If so, send in the name and author of whatever you read, along with a one-to-two sentence summary of why you enjoyed it to Ebony.Boulware@dm.duke.edu. Each week, we’ll select an entry and share it in this newsletter.  

This week's faculty spotlight shines on James M. Davis, MD, who joined the Division earlier this year. When did you join the Division of General Internal Medicine? I just started at Duke and at the Division of Internal Medicine on April 1st of this year.

Victor J. Dzau, MD, Chancellor for Health Affairs, announced to Duke Medicine Faculty and Staff today that Marion E. Broome, PhD, FAAN, has been named the next dean of the Duke University School of Nursing and vice chancellor of nursing affairs at Duke University. In addition, Dr. Broome will assume the newly created position of associate vice president for academic affairs for nursing for Duke University Health System.

The next Schwartz Center Rounds, “Dying in Shackles: Caring for Prisoners at the End of Life,” will be held Wednesday, May 14, from noon to 1 p.m. in Duke North 2002. All are invited to attend. Schwartz Center Rounds is a monthly interdisciplinary conference that offers clinicians an opportunity to openly and honestly discuss social and emotional issues that arise in caring for patients. Panelists this month include Jon Baumgardner, RN, Lydia Mis, PharmD, BCOP, and Benjamin Peterson, MD.