News

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.

Chronic kidney disease takes a dreadful toll. Some 13 percent of adult Americans live with the condition. Despite that high prevalence, multitudes of mysteries persist about how chronic kidney disease progresses and how to stop or slow it. Julia Scialla, MD, MHS, is eager to help change that with studies exploring the physiology of chronic kidney disease complications.

7 faculty from the Department of Medicine will participate in the School of Medicine's LEADER program.

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.

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

The following faculty received funding awards in December 2017.

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

Dr. Kevin Schulman was once again published in The Hill,  an American political journalism newspaper and website published in Washington, DC. 

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.

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.