Division News

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).

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.

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.

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

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!

30 papers in 60 minutes by Russ Altman, MD, PhD, all about Translational Bioinformatics

Again, Dr. Altman, from Stanford University, presented the annual “Year in Review” to the AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science held in San Diego, March 21-24, 2016. Click here to his see his slides plus Endnote XML files for final papers.

Our own palliative care physician and amateur cartoonist, Nathan A Gray, MD, was recently featured in a web-only Annals Graphic Medicine, which is where Annals of Internal Medicine brings together original graphic narratives, comics, and other creative forms by those who provide or receive health care. These graphics address medically relevant topics—be they poignant, thought-provoking, or just plain entertaining.

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.

Duke General Internal Medicine is pleased to announce the academic appointment of Kenneth C. Goldberg, MD, as Associate Professor, effective April 1, 2016. Last August Dr. Goldberg arrived as the new Chief of Staff of the Durham VA Medical Center.

Clinician, administrator, educator, wife, and mom are just some of her roles. Take a deeper dive in to the life of Marie Carlson, MD.