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See our faculty that received new funding in July 2023

A coalition of health care funders working to improve trust in health care has awarded grants to Department of Medicine faculty members, Julius Wilder, MD, PhD, and Aimee Zaas, MD and Lance Okeke, MD, to advance local health equity in the Durham, N.C. community.  

Preventative cardiologist and women’s heart disease expert Martha Gulati, MD, MS, will deliver the Friday, August, 4 Joseph C.

Medical schools across the country are increasingly incorporating visual arts and humanities programming into their curricula to address a variety of issues and skill sets that are relevant to clinical practice. The Department of Medicine has done so well with its visual arts and humanities curriculum for residents that it is now in its third year—and growing.

Michael Pignone, MD, MPH, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, will join the Duke Department of Medicine as the inaugural vice chair for quality and innovation, and serve as faculty within the Division of General Internal Medicine effective November 1.

Afreen Shariff, MD, assistant professor in the division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, has been selected by the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) as a 2023 Innovator Award recipient for her work on the effectiveness of electronic consults for immune-related endocrine toxicities.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Duke, UNC, Harvard, Brown and the American Health Care Association Long-term Care Data Collaboratory have been awarded $7.5 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to fund a study on models of post-acute care in complex older adults with fractures. The study is one of the largest comparative effectiveness trials undertaken in skilled nursing facilities.

See our faculty that received new funding in June 2023

Congratulations to the following faculty members for their recent appointment or promotion in the Department of Medicine.

Kevin Shah, MD, MBA, has been named Chief Medical Officer for Duke Primary Care (DPC) and Vice President of D