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Duke Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health, POSH, is a team-based approach in which surgeons, geriatricians, advanced practice providers from anesthesia, and patients work together to head off potential problems before surgery.

“Surgeons are seeing older and older patients,” says Shelley McDonald, DO, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Geriatrics). “We’ve learned that by working together, these patients can get through surgery with fewer complications.”

General Internal Medicine announces 2nd annual Excellence Awards to honor the outstanding achievements of our Division Faculty and Staff Members in Clinical Care, Education, Research, Implementation and Professionalism. 

The Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI) is excited to sponsor a limited number of faculty, trainees, or medical students to participate in The Duke Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP). This program is offering an expanded version of a course first introduced last year called “Implementation and Dissemination of Health Care Research” that will be taught by Hayden Bosworth, PhD. Deadline to apply is end of day Fri., Aug. 25.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for July 31, 2017.

The Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine is pleased to announce the first two post-doctoral fellows supported by an NIH training award (T32) in genomic medicine: Carolyn Baloh, M.D., and Cory Stingl, M.D.

Duke Palliative Care will support two population-based pilot grants programs, and both will focus on one aspect of palliative care: communication and decision-making. Continue reading for details. Deadline is Aug. 31.

The Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program will host the 6th annual Stead Tread 5K Fun Run on Sat., Sept. 9 at 9 a.m. on the American Tobacco Trail, starting at Solite Park in Durham (4704 Fayetteville Road).

Duke University Lung Transplant will hold its Duke Lung Transplant Symposium Aug. 25-26, 2017. 

The weight loss research of Dr. Nia Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Medicine, was recently featured on MSN's "30 Best Ways to Lose Weight After 30". 

Dr. Kevin Schulman presented at Duke Medicine Grand Rounds on July 21. His presentation was entitled, "The Healthcare Pivot: Technology and the Transformation of Healthcare". Schulman spoke about the national concern about the cost of healthcare in the United States and what it will take to get us out of this conundrum.