Zipkin and ACLT residents advocate on Capitol Hill for opioid safety
A group of Duke Internal Medicine residents traveled to Washington, D.C., last week as part of the Ambulatory Care Leadership Track's focus on advocacy. Throughout the year, the ACLT residents plan and prepare for the trip, where they meet with representatives in Congress. This year the residents prepared a one-page paper on opioid safety with help from Duke University Health and State Government Relations.
Penn's David Casarett to lead Duke palliative care services
David Casarett, MD, will join the Duke Health community as the chief of Palliative Care Services for Duke University Health System, and chief of the Section of Palliative Care within Division of General Internal Medicine, effective September 1, 2016.
Boggan to serve as mentor to chief resident for quality and safety
Joel Boggan, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine), will take on the role as mentor to the chief resident for quality and safety (CRQS) at the Durham VA Medical Center, announced Aimee Zaas, MD, director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and David Simel, MD, professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine) and vice chair for Veterans Aff
Med Students give stellar SGIM presentation, prompts over 30 tweets!
Three Duke medical students — Jerry Lee, the presenter, Morgan Hardy, and Julie Rivo — all mentored in the Duke Outpatient Clinic (DOC) including their co-authors Marigny Bratcher and Natasha Cunningham, gave a truly excellent presentation during an opening plenary session at SGIM 2016.
6 from Medicine honored at SoM Spring Faculty Meeting
Six Department of Medicine faculty were recognized with awards at the School of Medicine's annual Spring Faculty Meeting on May 9.
Skinner’s obesity research gains much attention
New member of DGIM and DCRI, Asheley Skinner, PhD, has been conducting research in the fields of health policy, health services, and population health. She is the lead author of a new study: “Prevalence of obesity and severe obesity in US children, 1999-2014” and this publication is gaining a great deal of attention.
Yancy quoted in CBS News on “The Biggest Loser” controversy
In an interview with CBS News Dr. William Yancy spoke about the reality television show, “The Biggest Loser”, the problem that the series perpetuates the idea that all you need to do to lose weight is diet and exercise. Yancy discusses how it is much more complicated than that to keep the weight off for the long term.
Quality & Innovations Scholars Program Symposium
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.
GIM shows out in resident vs. faculty basketball game
Duke residents and faculty entered the legendary Cameron Indoor Stadium on Thursday, April 28, for the annual resident vs. faculty basketball game.