Hospital Medicine News


Bae Named Chief Quality Officer for Duke University Hospital

In this new role for Duke University Hospital, Dr. Bae will join the hospital as a member of the senior leadership team with the responsibility to set the overall clinical direction, leadership, and operational management of quality and safety programs of Duke University Hospital.

Wahid Promoted to Assistant Professor

Congratulations to Dr. Lana Wahid on her promotion to Assistant Professor of Medicine in the division of General Internal Medicine, effective August 1, 2022. 

2022 GIM Excellence Awards

General Internal Medicine announces the 7th annual Excellence Awards to honor the outstanding achievements of our division's faculty and staff members in clinical care, education, research, implementation, and professionalism. This year, we added a few more award categories and are excited to have 10 individual awards as well as one team award. 

Colby Feeney, MD, Named Med-Peds Residency Program Director

Colby Feeney, MD, hospitalist and assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine with a secondary appointment in the Department of Pediatrics, will assume the role of program director for the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program effective September 15, 2022. 

Long affiliated with the program, Feeney, currently serves as its associate program director, a role she has held since 2018. 

Hospital Medicine Updates

The month of July brought many new updates for the hospital medicine program at Duke. 

Fuad Bohsali, MD, is the new Medical Director of Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) and Perioperative Nutrition Support at Duke Regional Hospital. 

7 GIM faculty promoted to Associate Professor

Congratulations to seven of our faculty members who are receiving distinguished academic promotions in the division of General Internal Medicine!

“It gives me tremendous pleasure to announce these promotions to Associate Professor. As you know, these academic promotions mark faculty members’ scholarly achievements and are a hallmark of professional accomplishment in our school. Faculty appointed to Associate Professor have achieved recognition within Duke and at peer institutions as leaders in their fields both nationally and/or internationally.”