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.
Lantos published in JAMA Diagnostic Lab Interpretation
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).
Maciejewski selected for AcademyHealth Methods Council
We are pleased to announce Matthew Maciejewski, PhD, was recently selected to join the AcademyHealth Research Council for a three year term! This council is comprised of experts in the variety of fields that represent health services research and health policy.
Schulman co-authors NEJM Perspective on Health Care Tax Inversions
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.