2023 Resident Research Day Features Califf Research Award Winners
The Department of Medicine’s 2023 Resident Research Day, held Friday, May 19, featured presentations from this year’s Califf Research Award winners followed by a poster presentation with 18 entrants.
Berg, Joshi, and McDonald to Receive 2023 DOM Master Clinician Awards
The Department of Medicine (DOM) is pleased to announce the recipients of the annual Master Clinician Award, Carl Berg, MD, Sangeeta Joshi, MD, MBBS, and Shelley McDonald, DO, PhD.
Dr. Wilder Leads Three-Year Study to Improve Health Literacy in Underserved Communities
Dr. Julius Wilder will lead a three-year investigational health equity patient education study to examine how diverse populations respond to various patient-education tactics such as print, digital, and video, with the goal of identifying the most effective methods and communication infrastructures for communicating relevant and important health information to diverse communities.
Q&A Spotlight: Distinguished Professors Christopher Granger and Rana Gupta
Duke University has awarded Distinguished Professorships to 44 faculty members, six from the Department of Medicine. Over the coming weeks, join us in recognizing these Distinguished Professors through our Distinguished Professor Spotlight. This week, we feature Christopher Granger, MD, and Rana Gupta, PhD.
Inaugural Medicine Research Day Focuses on Impact in a Range of Clinical Conditions
The Department of Medicine held its inaugural Research Day on Friday, April 28, with Chair Kathleen Cooney, MD, kicking off the event with a special Medicine Grand Rounds presentation about her research, Hereditary Prostate Cancer: From Gene Discovery to Clinical Implementation.
Tripartite Leadership: Yancy’s vision for GIM
Dr. William Yancy became the Interim Division Chief of General Internal Medicine (GIM) in January 2023. His leadership embodies the tripartite mission of patient care, research, and education that remains the foundation of the Department of Medicine.
Closing the Gap: Wahid Launches Program for Hospitalists to Engage in Clinical Research at Duke
Wahid developed an innovative new program, Hospital-Based Clinical Trials & Research Program, the first of its kind at Duke University Medical Center.
A COVID-19 Collaborative: Wahid, Researchers Break Treatment Ground
By Liz Switzer
Internal medicine hospitalist Lana Wahid, MD arrived at Duke Medical Center in April 2020 with a simple goal: becoming involved in clinical research. By December 2020, she had been named Duke site Principal Investigator of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded ACTIV-4a platform trial to evaluate anticoagulation in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and quickly established the Duke Health System as one of the highest enrolling trial sites in this international collaboration.