Congratulations to four General Internal Medicine faculty who received promotions to Assistant Professor, effective November 1, 2022.
Dr. Franzone joined our GIM faculty in 2018 with primary clinical duties within the Hospital Medicine program. Since July 2020 he has been rounding on the general medicine teaching service. During the pandemic, he devoted scholarly activity to COVID-19 clinical research. Dr. Franzone is an active clinical investigator for multiple clinical trials which have led to peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Lim has been with Duke Hospital Medicine since 2014, teaching the Physician Assistant students during their clinical rotation in Internal Medicine. In addition, she continues to work in the Preoperative Clinic at Duke Regional Hospital. She has been a clinician-educator for interns in Psychiatry and Family Medicine helping them to gain more experience and confidence in their clinical skills. Dr. Lim anticipates an expanded role in the Perioperative Clinic by participating in quality improvement projects and ongoing education for the residents and fellows.
Dr. Walter joined our faculty in the Division of General Internal Medicine in 2018, where his primary clinical duties have been with the Hospital Medicine program. He has taught numerous medical students and physician assistant students during their Internal Medicine inpatient rotations. Dr. Walter has also worked with a multi-disciplinary team to implement an advance care planning quality improvement project for Hospital Medicine. He will continue his clinical and research activities as well as quality improvement work on advance care planning, partnering with other stakeholders to benefit our patients.
Dr. Zhao joined Duke GIM faculty and the hospital medicine team in 2017. Her scholarly activities include clinical work on specialty service lines, teaching of residents, medical students, and physician assistant students on the night-time general medicine rotation and daytime hospital medicine service. Dr. Zhao continues as a clinician-educator, taking an active role as a nocturnist working with residents and students and teaching evidence-based medicine. She will continue to collaborate with faculty on reducing Clinical Documentation integrity (CDI) queries and work related to caring for patients with opioid misuse.