Division News

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.

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.

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

“You are only the second medical student(s) to be offered this opportunity since 1999,” read the email from SGIM to Jerry Lee, Julie Rivo, and Morgan Hardy, three medical students from the Duke University School of Medicine. “It is indeed a wonderful and rare opportunity.”

Cara O’Brien, MD, assistant professor of medicine, is the recipient of two recent funding awards.

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:

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.