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
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.
“Duke Vaccinates” – a primary care research project
Improving adult vaccination rates has been a longstanding goal of the nation’s public health experts. Adults are more likely than children to contract vaccine-preventable diseases, largely because adult immunization rates are considerably lower than childhood rates. Real-world data show that pneumococcal, influenza, tetanus, and herpes zoster vaccination rates lag well behind national goals, particularly for high-risk patient populations. Nearly 50,000 American adults die each year from vaccine-preventable diseases or their complications.
DGIM Excellence Awards
Duke Division of General Internal Medicine honors recipients of GIM Excellence Awards.
Recap – 2016 Duke GIM Wine, Cheese + Posters
Five from GIM receive awards at division poster session.
Welcome new faculty member Dr. Marie Witte
Marie Witte, MD, recently joined our division as a Medical Instructor and Hospitalist for Duke University Hospital. She comes to Duke from the Medical Group of the Carolinas in Spartanburg, SC where she was also a Hospitalist. Dr. Witte received her medical degree from Texas A&M College of Medicine in College Station, TX. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Welcome to Duke GIM, Dr. Witte!
Creating SYNERGY in population health improvement
The new population health improvement series, SYNERGY, kicked off on Wednesday, September 14th. L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, Chief of the Duke Division of General Internal Medicine and Director of the Duke Center for Community & Population Health Improvement, was the inaugural speaker for the event.
Brogan reports on Academic Hospitalist Academy
This blog post submitted by: Joseph Brogan, MD, Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Duke General Internal Medicine.
New Faculty Spotlight: John Yeatts, MD, MPH
Meet John Yeatts, MD, MPH, a medical instructor and hospitalist at Duke University Hospital. In July we welcomed Dr. Yeatts into our GIM faculty. His primary interests are health care finance, value based care, population healthcare, and developing as a physician executive.