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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.

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.

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.