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The Duke Medical Alumni Association has honored Anna Mae Diehl, MD, and Michael Merson, MD, with Distinguished Alumni Awards.

The 2017 Duke GME High Value Care Quality Improvement Competition recently presented a $3000 award to DGIM for a new effort: “Improving the Value of Resident-Provided Primary Care through Population Health Tools: A Quality Improvement Project".

When faculty in Duke Department of Medicine receive funding from organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, they are required to certify effort through a system called effort certific

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Nov. 27, 2017.

Michael Merson, MD, Professor of Medicine and member of the Division of General Internal Medicine, received one of the six distinguished alumni awards from the Duke Medical Alumni Association during Medical Alumni Weekend in November.

This week we learned from Dr. Saumil Chudgar about a perspective paper published in the current issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

In April, Duke University Engineering alumnus Alan Kaganov and his wife Carol gave the un

Duke Health has announced its first Translating Duke Health call for proposals for innovative approaches to supporting immune health and cardiovascular health. Deadlines are Jan. 5 and 15, 2018.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Nov. 20, 2017.

Dorothy Sipkins, MD, PhD, is a hematologist-oncologist who studies cancer. But to understand the cleverness of her work, it’s helpful to think of her as an ecologist—a cell ecologist. Sipkins identifies very specific biological habitats and interactions that allow malignant cells to move, proliferate and survive chemical attacks, traits that too often produce fatal disease. “I love thinking about what is on the outside of the cell. What the cell is seeing. What the cell is interacting with, the 3-D environment it interacts with,” says Sipkins.