POSH study finds cross-disciplinary approach improves surgical outcomes for older patients
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.
Internal Medicine Residency News, Jan. 8, 2018
Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Jan. 8, 2018.
Welcome new hospitalists
DGIM is proud to announce two new hospitalists join our division this month!
Mining New RNA Science for Clinical Promise
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.
Medicine and Surgery get moving with 10-week step counting challenge
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.
Funding opp: Duke Incubation Fund supports early-state ideas
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.
Internal Medicine Residency News, Jan. 2, 2018
Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Jan. 2, 2018.
Recent DGIM Promotions
We are proud to announce 4 faculty members have been promoted to Assistant Professor this month!
