Division News

The Internal Medicine Residency Program has announced the 2021 - 2022 Faculty Resident Research grant recipients.

Two faculty members from the Department of Medicine have been selected to receive 2021 Physician-Scientist “Strong Start” awards from the School of Medicine.

Kenneth Wilson, MD, professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases), is part of a research study that has demonstrated that a high-filtration-efficiency facepiece, capable of filtering out 99% of 0.05μm particles while being worn, can be simply produced with available materials.

Four senior faculty members at Duke including two faculty members from the Department of Medicine have been named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).

According to their colleagues in the Division of Infectious Diseases, both Thomas Holland, MD, and Cameron Wolfe, MBBS, MPH, richly deserve the Presidential Award for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many coworkers said that over the past year Dr. Holland and Dr. Wolfe seemed to be everywhere, all the time, and many called them “tireless.”

Susanna Naggie, MD, was selected as a member of the 2021-2022 class of fellows for the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) Program at Drexel University College of Medicine.

Dr. Nicole DePasquale recently received a K01 Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA)

The April 13, 2021 session of Duke Medicine LEADS featured a discussion led by Kim Darlington, MD, PhD; Vinay Choksi, MD; and Neha Kayastha, MD, "Oh, Rats! Another Case of Encephalopathy"

Panelist included, Eileen Maziarz, MD; Matthew Luedke, MD, FACNS; and Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD, who weighed in for the diagnostic reasoning discussion.

Cameron Wolfe, MBBS, associate professor of medicine, and Thomas Holland, MD, associate professor of medicine, both in the Division of Infectious Diseases, are recipients of the Duke University Presidential Award for 2020.

The Feb. 16, 2021 session of Duke Medicine LEADS featured a discussion led by Yolanda Guzman, MD; Matthew Harbrecht, MD; and Jonathan Komisar, MD, "71-year-old male with dizziness, nausea, and difficulty walking."

Expert consultants included, Christopher Eckstein, MD; Thomas Holland, MD; and Neal Ready, MD, PhD, who weighed in for the diagnostic reasoning and discussion.