Hospital Medicine News

GIM Celebration

Recap: First Annual Proud To Be GIM Celebration

The division of General Internal Medicine held their first annual Proud To Be GIM Celebration on Thursday, October 26, at the GIM offices in downtown Durham. This was our first in-person division-wide event held since the pandemic.

Chudgar and Gallagher

Chudgar and Gallagher Promoted to Full Professors

Congratulations to two of our faculty members who are receiving distinguished academic promotions in the division of General Internal Medicine (GIM)! Drs. Gallagher and Chudgar are the first-ever Duke hospital medicine faculty members to receive this promotion to full professor. 

SHM 2023 Triangle

NC Triangle SHM Recap

The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) NC Triangle Chapter hosted an in-person event on Monday, October 16, at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park. 
Huang and Torain

GIM welcomes two new members

Duke General Internal Medicine is proud to welcome two new members this month, one faculty member and one staff member. 

Jonathan Huang, MD - Hospitalist

Dr. Huang joins us from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital where he completed his Internal Medicine residency program. He now joins us as a Hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital.

Meet CResidents

Meet the New Chief Residents

The beginning of each new academic year is exciting and unique in its own way. One of the highlights for the Department of Medicine is welcoming our new Chief Residents as they assume their roles.  This year is no exception with a talented, new team of emerging leaders that includes Ann Cameron Barr, MD, Michael Cosiano, MD, Courtney Dominguez, MD, and Nathan Hirshman, MD.  Learn more about them in our special Meet the New Chiefs Spotlight.   
Dr. Carla Brady

Faculty Development Update: Prioritizing Faculty Support

Duke Department of Medicine Faculty:

I have spent the last three months cultivating a vision for faculty development by listening to faculty  across our department. As a member of the Faculty Development Academy (FDA) in 2011, I understand the importance of initiatives that provide support for faculty to be successful.

GIM Faculty

GIM Welcomes 4 New Faculty

We are proud to welcome 4 new faculty members to the Division of General Internal Medicine!

Joanna Cavalier, MD

Dr. Cavalier has been with Duke since she began her internal medicine residency in 2019. She now joins our division as a Medical Instructor and is a hospitalist at Duke University Hospital.

IPE

Duke Interprofessional Education (IPE) Clinic Seeking Clinic Preceptors

The School of Medicine is seeking clinical faculty to serve as Interprofessional Education Clinic Preceptors for the upcoming academic year. Along with other interprofessional faculty, clinic preceptors will be responsible for seeing patients with ambulatory care complaints, such as might be seen in an outpatient clinic or in urgent care.


PCORI

Duke Awarded Funding to Raise Standard of Care for Pain Management

Chronic pain is one of the most burdensome conditions in the United States, with lower back pain comprising the largest subset of those conditions, and veterans bearing a disproportionate amount of this societal burden. Two Duke researchers plan to change that reality and raise the standard of pain care management.
Kamran Mahmood

Landmark Study Gives Lung Cancer Patients Better Biopsy Options

Duke lung cancer patients and their doctors now have better diagnoses options thanks to a new landmark study that fills a critical gap in clinical decision about which of two main biopsy modalities is better for the diagnosis of lung nodules in patients at moderate to high risk for cancer. 
Blue Ridge Rankings

PIONEER: Aligning Internal Medical Education and Realities of Clinical Care Delivery

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.
Deepshikha Ashana

Dr. Deepshikha Ashana: Research at the Intersection of Science and Advocacy

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. Joel Boggan

Dr. Joel Boggan: Rethinking Post-discharge Patient Contacts

Despite wide deployment of post-discharge patient contact strategies and the promise these modes hold for transfers of information and care while avoiding costly subsequent care, many unanswered questions remain about their effectiveness on key health care outcomes. Dr. Joel Boggan shares some enlightening answers in a systematic review of the topic published recently in Annals of Internal Medicine.