Division News

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School @ Duke hosted its second annual quality symposium on April 20, 2016, showcasing the work of the 2015-2016 Quality & Innovation Scholars. These efforts were recognized with $3000 in scholarships to represent Duke at the 2016 IHI National Forum that takes place this December in Orlando, Florida. Multiple GIM members took part in this event.

Paul Lantos, MD, does quite a bit of research about tracking and identifying Lyme disease. His work was recently was published in a JAMA Diagnostic Test Interpretation, a new JAMA series in quiz format showing a  patient’s clinical presentation and test result(s).

Clinical researcher and faculty member of Duke GIM,  Kevin Schulman, MD, recently co-authored a perspective article in The News England Journal of Medicine entitled,  “Health Care Tax Inversions – Robbing Both Peter and Paul”. The other author on this article, Haider Javed Warraich, M.D, is a colleague of Schulman’s from Harvard where Schulman is a visiting professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School.

As you may know, David Simel, MD, Chief of Medicine in the Durham VA, is an editor of the Rational Clinical Examination Series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Meet Clay Musser, MD, a DGIM hospitalist and board certified clinical informatician. Clay is a well-respected leader in the deployment of Duke’s electronic medical record, Maestro Care. He contributes significantly to clinical content architecture across the entire enterprise of Duke. Notice the impact of mentors in his career path.

This week’s faculty spotlight shines on Poonam Sharma, MD. In addition to being a hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital, Dr. Sharma is involved in a variety of educational roles, especially with the training program for Physician Assistants (PA). How long have you been at Duke? I’ve been at Duke 9 years now. I came for residency training and then started as a hospitalist in the division in 2010.

This blog post submitted by: Corrine Voils, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Duke General Internal Medicine.  Did you know? If you are preparing a grant, there are resources at Duke to help increase chances of success!

We are pleased to announce the SGIM acceptance of Daniella Zipkin, MD, to a three year term on the Education Committee. This particular committee is the most popular in SGIM and there were a limited number of openings.

Congratulations to these general medicine faculty members who are recipients of research funding for the first quarter of 2016. JANUARY Shelby Reed received an award from Janssen Research & Development, LLC for a project entitled “Janssen TIDM Diabetes Study.” Total funding will be $200,924. See all Duke funding awards from January 2016

Shenglan Tang, MD, PhD, is a Duke Professor of Medicine and Research Professor of Global Health. He is the Associate Director for Duke Kunshan University. We learned from his arrival at the Duke Global Health Institute in 2012 that Dr. Tang came to Duke from the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), based in Geneva.