Division News

Jason Webb, MD, medical instructor in medicine (General Internal Medicine) and psychiatry and behavioral medicine, has been asked to serve as an associate editor for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine publication PC-FACS for the symptom assessment and management section, which is published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

Four faculty members from the Department of Medicine are among the recipients of a new grant program aimed at fostering interactions between researchers in the School of Medicine and the Duke campus. Eight seed grants were awarded to project teams for "Collaborative Quantitative Approaches to Problems in the Basic and Clinical Sciences." The teams from Medicine are:

Larry Greenblatt, MD, Duke Associate Professor of Medicine, demonstrates the impact possible as a clinician-educator in the academic medical center. In Singapore, Duke-NUS, he continues to teach medical students and to provide education for medicine residents so that they can more effectively teach (take a look at this previous post).

Posted by John Bae, MD*

A big congratulations are in order for the two faculty members who received awards at the recent North Carolina chapter meeting of the American College of Physicians. Elaine Hart-Brothers, MD, a Duke Primary Care physician, was awarded the 2016 Award for Volunteerism and Community Service for the founding and directing the Community Health Coalition in Durham NC.

Saumil Chudgar, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine) and director of undergraduate medical education in the Department of Medicine, has received the 2016 Duke Medicine Golden Apple Award for Clinical Science Faculty.

The Duke Outpatient Clinic (DOC) has been selected by the Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI) for funding of $91,644 to “Develop On-Site Acute Illness Treatment Capacity in Hospital-Based Primary Care,” a project with leadership by Lynn Bowlby, MD.

Congratulations, Dr. Clough!

The Society of Hospital Medicine held their annual conference this week in San Diego, California. The meeting had the largest attendance ever for SHM with over 4000 registered, including many from Duke. Nippon (Pooh) Setji, MD, was in attendance and was able to report back for us. Check out his full story and

Well done, Dr. Williams! The March 1st issue of Annals of Internal Medicine includes an editorial by John W. Williams Jr., MD, MHSc, a Duke GIM clinician-researcher and educator, together with Gary Maslow, MD, MPH, also a Duke faculty member (Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences). The commentary is titled “Seize the Day to Implement Depression Guidelines.”