Division News

To better prepare second-year Duke medical students for residency — and the real world — the internal medicine component of the School of Medicine’s outPatient Integrated lONgitudinal ExpERience (PIONEER) curriculum integrates early exposure to the outpatient setting — where much of medicine happens —  with robust ambulatory training and faculty mentorship. The 16-week experience fosters high-quality mentoring opportunities for students while opening doors for workforce development and research collaboration with faculty preceptors.

Scott Palmer, MD, MHS, the Donald F. Fortin. MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, and vice chair for research in the Department of Medicine, and Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH, Gary Hock Distinguished Professor in Global Health, professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, and director of Duke Global Health Institute, have been inducted into the Association of American Physicians (AAP).

The Department of Medicine recognizes 13 faculty members with 2025 Excellence in Education Awards in recognition of their outstanding work and dedication to the education of its fellows, residents and students.

The Duke Department of Medicine deeply values its administrative professionals and the significant impact that they have on our daily operations. In honor of Administrative Professionals Day on Wednesday, April 23, we are celebrating our administrative heroes who goes above and beyond the call of duty.

The Duke Department of Medicine deeply values its administrative professionals and the significant impact that they have on our daily operations. In honor of Administrative Professionals Day on Wednesday, April 23, we are celebrating our administrative heroes who goes above and beyond the call of duty.

We recognize and appreciate our administrative support professionals who are central to our department's success.

Join us in honoring them and their valuable contributions to the department’s ongoing success.

Professor Loretta G. Que, MD, chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Elizabeth A. Rich, MD, Award from the American Thoracic Society (ATS).

Duke Health interventional pulmonologist Dr. Kamran Mahmood, MD, MPH and the Duke Interventional Pulmonology Team are offering a ground-breaking, promising new treatment procedure for advanced lung cancer patients— pulsed electric field (PEF) ablation.  

Born in a small town in India to physician parents, Deepshikha Ashana, MD, MBA, MS, naturally developed a love for medicine as a child. She also watched her mother — an obstetrician — walk a professional path that was fraught with gender-based discrimination; an experience that instilled in her the core personal value of equity.    

Dr. Jamie L. Todd, associate professor in the Division Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, is the recipient of the 2025 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) Mitch Greenberg Memorial Award in Lung Transplantation.

Researchers in the Duke Department of Medicine (DOM) are shedding new light on the intersection of social needs and medical care in a study on social determinants of health (SDOH) — disparate social conditions — that impact recovery from acute illnesses like COVID-19.