Division News

Six Department of Medicine faculty were recognized with awards at the School of Medicine's annual Spring Faculty Meeting on May 9.

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.

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.

Duke residents and faculty entered the legendary Cameron Indoor Stadium on Thursday, April 28, for the annual resident vs. faculty basketball game.

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).

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.

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.

Do you tweet? If you haven’t tried, Twitter is actually a great way to quickly get information about research and publications – after all, Twitter does have about 320 million monthly active users many of whom are healthcare professionals, publishers of academic journals, and organizations.

If you didn’t know, Duke General Internal Medicine has a Twitter account. Our “handle” is @Duke_GIM.

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.

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.