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Joseph Rogers, MD, interim chair of the department, Aimee Zaas, MD, MHS, program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and David Simel, MD, vice chair for Veterans Affairs, have announced the Chief Residents for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Duke study, led by Keith Sullivan, MD, shows stem cell transplant is better than drug therapy for scleroderma. The research was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Jan. 4.

The Duke Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health, led by Mitchell Heflin, MD, associate professor of medicine (Geriatrics), and Sandhya Lagoo-Deenadayalan, MD, associate professor of surgery, published a study in JAMA Surgery on Jan. 3 that found with older patients, assessing risk and intervening before surgery leads to shorter hospital stays.

The following faculty received funding awards in December 2017.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Jan. 8, 2018.

Last year in Christopher Holley’s lab, an uninstalled exhaust hood still wrapped in plastic suggested that the young investigator was just getting going. Don’t be deceived. Holley arrived a lab-bench veteran when he joined Duke’s cardiology division faculty in 2015. But the physician-scientist is launching something very new: wide-reaching molecular studies into a new field of RNA biology with vast potential.

DGIM is proud to announce two new hospitalists join our division this month!

On Jan. 8, the Department of Medicine and Department of Surgery will begin a 10-week competition to see which department can move the most in 2018.

The Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative is accepting applications for the Duke Incubation Fund, to support early-stage ideas based on Duke intellectual property with the potential to go to market and impact society. Deadline for applications is Jan. 8, 2018.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Jan. 2, 2018.