Division News

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., April 26 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature David Pisetsky, MD, PhD, professor of immunology and medicine (Rheumatology) and chief of rheumatology at the Durham VA Medical Center. Dr.

The Division of Rheumatology and Immunology is hosting a Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Rheumatology Training Course April 27-28 at Duke Clinic 1J at Duke University Medical Center. By the end of the course, rheumatology physicians, fellows, PAs and NPs will master the basic principles and practice to begin using musculoskeletal ultrasound as a diagnostic tool and to guide therapeutic injections in their clinical practices. The course is approved for up to 14.05 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits by the Duke Office of Continuing Medical Education.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., August 17 at 8am in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Megan E. B. Clowse, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine (Rheumatology & Immunology) and director of the Duke Lupus Clinic. Dr.

Found in the archives of Inside Duke Medicine: an article about the persistence of Michael Hershfield, MD, professor of medicine (Rheumatology and Immunology) and his colleagues in developing a treatment for severe gout.

E. William St. Clair, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, was one of nine School of Medicine faculty members awarded a distinguished professorship by Duke University last week. St. Clair now is the W.

Sixteen faculty and fellows participated in Duke's inaugural two-day Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Rheumatology Training Course in April. This Duke CME accredited event, chaired by Robert Keenan, MD, MPH, and Lisa Criscione-Schreiber, MD, both assistant professors of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, included lectures and hands-on demonstrations by guest faculty Alvin F.

The joint Pediatric and Medicine Fellows’ Research and Career Development Conference will be held today, Tuesday, Dec.

Fellows and faculty across the Department of Medicine are using their blogs this week to report from national meetings and share readings from divisional journal clubs:

• The Duke Cardiology Fellows blog has reports from the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting in San Francisco (and see tweets at @dukeheartfellow)
• The Duke Rheumatology Fellows blog has r

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