Division News

Two new faculty in the Department of Medicine are among 12 in the School of Medicine who were recruited within the last year as part of the Translating Duke Health (TDH) initiative. These new faculty members—representing a spectrum of career stages—were recruited to Duke because of their expertise in numerous fields including transplantation, neurosurgery, gene therapy, HIV, and more.  

Blake Cameron, MD, MBI, medical instructor (Nephrology), and Melissa Teitelman-Grotegut, MD, associate professor of medicine (Gastroenterology) have been named co-medical directors for clinical access in the Department of Medicine.

Rasheeda Hall, MD, MBA, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (Nephrology), is drawn to complexity. When she was a resident at Duke, she says, “I felt a heart tug to nephrology because these patients were sicker and more complex patients.”

Today, after completing a fellowship in Nephrology at Duke, she is a geriatric nephrologist, with the goal of making life simpler and better for these patients. She is using tools from geriatrics and pharmacology in her quest to improve quality of life and address patient goals of care. Dr. Hall hopes some of her work eventually will help inform geriatric nephrology on a larger scale.

Congratulations to the following Department of Medicine faculty who received promotions in the first half of 2018.

Joseph Rogers, MD, interim chair of the Department of Medicine, has notified four Medicine faculty that they will receive funding under the new Chair’s Pilot Project Grants in Health Data Science.

Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD, Margaret Gray Morton Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University, will join the Duke Division of Nephrology on September 1, 2018. Dr. Luo, a kidney transplant expert, will serve as director of translational research for the Duke Transplant Center.

The recipients of the Department of Medicine faculty Excellence in Education Awards have been announced.

​Myles Wolf, MD, M.Med.Sc., professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Nephrology, was one of five faculty in the School of Medicine to be awarded a distinguished professorship.

Two Department of Medicine faculty members have been selected to receive 2018 Physician-Scientist “Strong Start” awards.

The School of Medicine created the awards program in 2016, funded with a gift from the Duke Endowment, to support promising, new physician-scientists at Duke as they develop independent research programs.  Each recipient will receive $70,000 annually for three years to support their research programs. Five awards were funded this cycle.

Gentzon Hall, MD, PhD, will present his research at the Department's Research Seminar Series on Friday, March 30, 2018 in Duke Hospital Room 2002.