The MedicineNews blog continues to be the primary way that we feature the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, trainees and staff of the Duke Department of Medicine.
In 2019, we shared 288 news stories, including posts about faculty and trainee awards and honors, research and 17 funding opportunities, as well as news and events from our training programs. Find highlights below.
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Highlights
Top news and changes
- Andrew Alspaugh to serve as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Medicine
- Mitch Heflin named associate dean for Interprofessional Education and Care and director of the new Center for Interprofessional Education and Care
- Department of Medicine assembles new clinical leadership team
- Kevin Shah joins Department's clinical leadership team
- Laurie Snyder to serve as medical director for Department's Clinical Research Unit
- Adia Ross to serve as chief medical officer for Duke Regional Hospital
- Patty J. Lee to serve as next division chief of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
- Four faculty from the Department of Medicine are selected for leadership roles/course directorships in the Medical School
- Leadership update for Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy
- Robert Califf Transitions to Alphabet Company, to Serve as Head of Medical Strategy and Policy
- Department of Medicine celebrates new faculty, launches new Career Development Seminar Series
- Collaboration between Durham and Raleigh faculty benefits clinical research, trainees and patients
- James B. Wyngaarden, MD, professor emeritus and former chair of the Duke Department of Medicine has died
- Jenny Van Kirk to take on new roles in residency program, undergraduate medical education
- Chief Residents for 2020-2021 announced
- Govind Krishnan selected to serve as the Durham VA Medical Center Chief Resident for Quality and Safety (CRQS) for 2020-21
- Celebrating Match Day 2019
- Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program celebrates Fellowship Match 2019-20
Research News
- Diego Bohórquez and Opeyemi Olabisi receive the NIH Director’s “New Innovator” awards
- Stefania Alexopoulos has received a 2019 Endocrine Fellows Foundation grant
- Christine Bates receives the Chair's Research Award for Trainee Projects from the Department of Medicine
- Dinushika Mohottige receives The Mario Family Foundation Award
- George Yankey receives 2019 Duke REACH Equity Research, Education, and Training Subcore Research Scholar award
- Dennis Abraham and Brent Hanks receive 2019 Physician-Scientist Strong Start Awards
- Larry Jackson receives Duke REACH Equity Career Development Award
- Department selects four investigators for Chair's Research Award
- Department of Medicine faculty, trainees receive 2019 DIHI Innovation Awards
- Gentzon Hall and Brent Hanks receive 2019 ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Awards
- Department of Medicine is ranked 5th nationally in NIH funding
- Mihai Azoitei and Xunrong Luo join the Department as Translating Duke Health Scholars
- Nia Mitchell receives $2.6 million grant to study weight loss interventions in older African American women
Top honors
- 10 faculty from the Department of Medicine selected for LEADER program
- 3 faculty from the Department of Medicine selected as 2020 ADVANCE-UP Scholars
- 8 faculty from the Department of Medicine selected for the Duke Clinical Leadership Program
- 3 faculty from the Department of Medicine selected for the ALICE leadership development program
- Ebony Boulware and Peter Ubel are elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine
- Kimberly Johnson and Thomas LeBlanc receive awards from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- Julia Gamble, NP, is named Practice Nurse of the Year by the North Carolina Nurses Association
- Internal Medicine Residency Program recognizes faculty, trainees with end-of-year awards
- Divisions select faculty recipients for 2019 Excellence in Education Awards
- Dinushika Mohottige is the 2019 Michelle P. Winn Inclusive Excellence Award Fellow Recipient
- Adia Ross recognized with the Triangle Business Journal’s 40 under 40 award
- Kathleen Cooney to serve as a member of the Board of Scientific Consultants of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- 27 faculty from Medicine receive a promotion, tenure, or distinguished professorship
- 7 from Medicine honored at Spring Faculty Meeting
- Ebony Boulware honored with a Distinguished Professorship
- Virginia Kraus and Christopher Plowe are inducted into AAP
- Andrea Archibald receives the Isaac Hall Manning Jr. Award for Excellence in Patient Care
- Keisha Bentley-Edwards receives the Distinguished Service Award from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's New Connections Program
- Samira Musah receives the 2019 Early Investigator Travel Award from the Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Andy Alspaugh and Saumil Chudgar receive 2019 Golden Apple Awards
- Dinushika Mohottige elected to the Duke University School of Medicine chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
- DOM faculty recognized on Duke OLV's 'Celebrating Women in Innovation' feature
- Two Internal Medicine Residents selected for new NHLBI and NIAID R38 grant funding