DGIM Excellence Awards
Duke Division of General Internal Medicine honors recipients of GIM Excellence Awards.
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.
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!
Caputo Leads DoM Book Club
The Duke Department of Medicine book club, led by GIM faculty member, Laura Caputo, MD, has been gaining attention and attendance since it started back in January of 2015. They have been meeting every 2-3 months since then and they cover a wide range of topics. The club is also open to all Duke faculty, fellows, and residents.
Dr. Eric Poon – a CHIO to know!
Last week, Becker’s Hospital Review, a monthly healthcare publication, recognized Dr. Eric Poon as one of the 33 top “Chief Medical Informatics Officers” in the U.S.
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.
DGIM Welcomes Dr. David Casarett, New Chief of Palliative Care Services
The Division of General Internal Medicine welcomes David Casarett, MD, MA, as the new Chief of Palliative Care. Dr. Casarett relocated from the University of Pennsylvania where he was Professor of Medicine and Director of Hospice and Palliative Care.
Weight loss after bariatric surgery sustained long-term! Maciejewski et al in JAMA Surgery
Within three days, this online first by DGIM authors published in JAMA Surgery boasts an altmetric score of 120 — besides tweets, blogs, and facebook, there were 11 news outlets and this one by CBS News: “Do the benefits of weight-loss surgery really last?”
Distinguished Academic Promotions in Duke General Internal Medicine
Congratulations to the following faculty members who have received promotions in the division of General Internal Medicine.