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Amateur cartoonist, Dr. Nathan Gray, shares his latest medical cartoon guide about codes status. 

The School of Medicine invites mid-career faculty to register for its "Financial Boot Camp" series, to be held March 1, 8, and 22, 2018. Learn more and register.

These are heady days for immunotherapy researchers, the scientists making progress unleashing the human immune system against lethal cancers. Interventions once envisioned in laboratories are now treatments saving the lives of some patients struck by melanoma, kidney cancer, and lung cancer. Promise is rising for treatments against malignancies arising elsewhere as well. With his new insights into how cancer cells use biochemical signaling to suppress our immune system, Brent Hanks, MD, PhD, is part of this translational momentum.

The Duke Outpatient Clinic celebrated the holiday season on Friday, December 8 at the lovely home of Dr. Greenblatt. 

​Wissam Kourany, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Nephrology), has been selected as the next chief of Nephrology at the Durham VA effective Jan. 1, 2018.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Dec. 18, 2017.

Thomas A. Owens, MD, Vice President for Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer for Duke University Health System and associate professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine) and pediatrics, has been has been named the next president of Duke University Hospital, effective Jan. 1, 2018.

DGIM Professor of Medicine, John WIlliams, MD, presents HSR&D CyberSemniar this past Wednesday.

The highly regarded SGIM annual meeting will take place April 11-14, 2018, in Denver, CO, and early-bird registration just opened December 14. Here are the details you need to know! 

Every Thanksgiving since 1973, Duke internal medicine residents have squared off for a friendly game of flag football—the Duke Hospital Marines versus the Durham VA Jets.