Division News

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Sept. 20 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Ken Lyles, MD, professor of medicine (Geriatrics) and medical director, Medicine site-based research, with a  quality review presentation by Jon Bae, MD, assistant professor of medicine and associate medical director for quality and patient safety. Dr.

Please mark your calendar for two upcoming Peer Mentoring sessions:

• Ken Schmader, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Geriatrics, will present "Balancing your needs with those of your mentee(s)" on Mon., Sept.

Harvey Jay Cohen, MD, and Miriam Morey, PhD, co-PIs of the Duke Older Americans Independence Center, have been awarded a renewal of the Claude D. Pepper OAIC grant from the National Institute on Aging. The award is for $616,815 per year for three years. This marks more than 20 years of funding for this Center, says Dr.

Chief residents, assistant chief residents and fellows from Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Obstetrics & Gynecology, recently attended Chief Resident Immersion Training program in the care of older adults.

This week work by Department of Medicine residents, fellows and faculty was featured in the "Documenting Medicine" series at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Read more about "Documenting Medicine" here. Here is an audio and photo story by Maria D'Souza, MD (Geriatrics Fellow), What Is It Like, Where You Are Now? More stories to come in the next week.

As chair-elect of the American Society for Nutrition’s Medical Nutrition Council, Connie Bales, PhD, RD, is working to strengthen ASN’s clinical nutrition initiatives and promote nutrition as a part of medical training and practice. Dr. Bales is a professor of medicine (Geriatrics) at Duke and Associate Director for Education/Evaluation of the Geriatric, Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the Durham VA Medical Center.

The Department of Medicine Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee is a sponsor of the upcoming event Faces of Change: The Legacy of African Americans at Duke University School of Medicine.

Recently, MRRC invited three former Duke chief residents to sit down for a conversation about diversity at Duke.

Liza I. Genao Gonzalez, MD, post-doctoral scholar at the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, will present Healthy Pathways to Publication on Tues., April 16 from 5-6 p.m. in the Chair's Conference Room, 1103 Duke North. Dr. Genao Gonzalez will discuss practical methods to overcome the most common technical errors that block early career investigators/educators from completing manuscripts on time. Dinner will be served.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., March 22 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Heather Whitson, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (Geriatrics) and Ophthalmology. Dr.

Duke University's graduate and professional schools continue to rank among the top institutions in their disciplines, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report. Medical school deans and faculty selected the best medical speciality programs, and Duke was recognized in geriatrics (fourth), internal medicine (fifth), AIDS (sixth), women's health (eighth) and family medicine (eighth). It tied for 44th in primary care.