Leadership | medicine.duke.edu

The goal of the Duke Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program is to guide and shape the careers of our trainees, such that each one can reach their full potential in whatever aspect of medicine inspires them. Program leadership and the Department of Medicine faculty view our residents not just as colleagues but also as the future of Duke Medicine and medicine around the world. By providing a challenging but supportive educational environment, individualized learning and career advising, and state-of-the-art facilities, we endeavor to train outstanding physicians who are equipped to excel both professionally and personally.

Kathleen Cooney, MD

Chair, Department of Medicine
Professor of Medicine

Division: Medical Oncology

Clinical Interests: Genitourinary oncology, advanced prostate cancer, cancer genetics

Research Interests: Hereditary prostate cancer, cancer epidemiology, translational prostate cancer research.

G. Ralph Corey, MD

Vice Chair, Education, Global Health
Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pathology

Clinical Interests: Staph bacteremia, endocarditis, pericarditis, travel and tropical medicine, general infectious diseases

Research Interests: bacterial infections; complicated skin and skin structure infections; postoperative wound infections; hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia; bacteremia; and endocarditis

Aimee Zaas, MD, MHS

Director, Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program
Associate Professor of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Division: Infectious Diseases

Clinical Interests: Infectious complications of solid-organ transplantation, hematologic malignancy, hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation, and other non-HIV-related immune-compromised states

Research Interests: Medical education; genomic applications for diagnosis and prediction of infectious diseases

Associate program directors

	Murat Arcasoy, MD Associate Program Director Professor of Medicine Division: Hematology Clinical Interests: Consultative hematology, myeloproliferative neoplasms, bone marrow failure syndromes, multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes, rare hematologic disorders Research Interests: Cytokines and cytokine receptors in hematopoietic commitment and lineage-specific differentiation; mechanisms of tissue-specific expression of erythropoietin receptor (EPOR) gene; the molecular basis of familial and congenital myeloproliferative disorders; isolation of novel hematopoietic cytokine-responsive genes; characterization of novel non-hematopoietic functions of EPOR signaling
	Joel Boggan, MD, MPH Associate Program Director Assistant Professor of Medicine Division: General Internal Medicine Clinical Interests: Hospital medicine, international health, patient safety Research Interests: Quality improvement, lab/testing utilization, transitions of care, clinical decision support, identification of chronic diseases via EHR data, patient safety
	David W. Butterly, MD Associate Program Director Associate Professor of Medicine Division: Nephrology Clinical Interests: Transplantation, consultative nephrology Research Interests: Patients with end-stage renal disease
	Daniella Zipkin, MD Associate Program Director Associate Professor of Medicine Division: General Internal Medicine Clinical Interests: Primary care internal medicine, evidence-based medicine, doctor-patient communication.
	Charles William "Bill" Hargett III, MD Associate Program Director Assistant Professor of Medicine Division: Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Clinical Interests: Pulmonary vascular disease (pulmonary hypertension and embolism), critical care medicine
	Sarah K. Rivelli, MD Program Director, Medicine and Psychiatry Residency Pathway Divisions: Psychiatry and General Internal Medicine Clinical Interests: General internal medicine, general psychiatry, hospitalist medicine, consultation-liaison psychiatry, delirium, affective disorders, psychosomatic medicine
	Jane Trinh, MD Director, Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Program Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine Division: Pediatrics and General Internal Medicine