GIM Faculty Spotlight: Shenglan Tang, PhD
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.
Welcome Back Dr. Goldberg
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.
GIM Faculty Spotlight: Marie Carlson, MD
Clinician, administrator, educator, wife, and mom are just some of her roles. Take a deeper dive in to the life of Marie Carlson, MD.
O’Brien’s multiple funding awards!
Cara O’Brien, MD, assistant professor of medicine, is the recipient of two recent funding awards.
Med Students open plenary session at #SGIM16
“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.”
Webb to serve as associate editor for AAHPM journal PC-FACS
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.
4 Medicine faculty among recipients of new collaborative grant program
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:
Greenblatt influences drug safety policy at Duke and statewide
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).
Medical students recognize Chudgar with 2016 Golden Apple Award
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.
