Division News

A screening of the documentary "Delirium's Impact" will be held at 4:30 p.m. Wed., Dec. 11 in Hanes House Auditorium Room 131. All Department of Medicine faculty and trainees are welcome. Refreshments will be served. "Delirium's Impact" is an original documentary, produced by Loren M. Wilkerson, MD, Medical Instructor (Geriatrics), through Documenting Medicine at Duke University. The film shows the story of delirium through the eyes of one patient, his family and the medical team taking care of him.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., Oct. 25 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Arati V. Rao, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Hematologic Malignancies and Cell Therapy and Geriatrics), with a case presentation from Kedar Kirtane, MD, junior assistant resident. Dr.

Heather Whitson, MD, MHS, is skilled at building a network. After completing her residency and fellowship at Duke and then becoming a junior faculty member, Whitson is using her connections to advance her research.

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.