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Kimberly Johnson, MD, associate professor of medicine (Geriatrics), will receive funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the barriers and facilitators of advance-care planning for different racial groups.

Nephrologist Susan Gurley MD, PhD, is an eyewitness to the toll diabetes-related kidney disease takes on patients. As diabetic kidney disease becomes more common worldwide, the clinician-scientist wants to solve more biological mysteries surrounding how the damage starts and progresses. New treatment targets could follow.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Aug. 14, 2017.

The Department of Medicine has produced an alumni report with highlights from our faculty and current and recent trainees. Building on Tradition is in the mail now to our former trainees.

Erica Malkasian will join the Department of Medicine as Director of Research Administration, effective October 1, announced Cathy Wood, vice chair for administration.

John Paul Shoup, MD, senior assistant resident in the combined Medicine-Pediatrics residency training program, has been selected to serve as the Durham VA Medical Center chief resident for quality improvement and patient safety for 2018-19.

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The Department of Medicine Book Club will meet on Oct. 2, 2017 to discuss "Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People" by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald. 

Jenny Van Kirk, MD, finished up her internal medicine residency at Duke and joined the DGIM faculty this July as Medical Instru

Faculty and trainees are invited to attend "Take Our Pain Away: Patients, Practice and Policy of Opioid Epidemic," on Mon., Aug. 28 from 12-1:15 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center.