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Heidi White, MD, MEd, CMD, associate professor of medicine (Geriatrics), has begun her tenure as the 2017-18 president of The Society for Post-Acute and Long-term Care Medicine (AMDA).

Back in March, John Williams, MD,  traveled to his old stomping grounds at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health) to do a visiting professorship for a day.

The Regeneration Next Initiative (RNI) is offering vouchers for new transgenic or genetically modified mice that will be used for tissue regeneration and/or stem cell research. Application deadline is April 30.

Duke General Internal Medicine has created a new Resources Portal to help Faculty, Staff, and Research Students stay organized with necessary information and resources throughout the division.

Clubs that connect colleagues -- an opportunity to meet people and to share interests. Both the Duke Department of Medicine Book Club and the Duke GIM Journal Club met recently. 

Drs. Hayden Bosworth and Leah Zullig were published in NEJM Catalyst for their article entitled, "Engaging Patients to Optimize Medication Adherence". 

Please join the School of Medicine for a Conversation On…Race, Place, & Community, Thursday, March 30, 2017, 8–10 a.m. in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center. 

For the Duke Department of Medicine, the gesture of giving back to the community can mean a life-long commitment and Blue Dean, executive director of development for the Department, is a part of the team who helps prospective Duke Health donors give back in a way that is most meaningful to them.

A strong health care system does not just rely on patients and their providers to maintain success; it also relies on skills beyond practicing medicine.  Essential to this success is the Department of Medicine’s Revenue Managers, Dianne Tadlock and Jennifer Garrett.

Kevin Thomas, MD, associate professor of medicine (Cardiology), holds a long track record in his career that focuses on health disparities and career development. Most of his research career has been dedicated to understanding disparities in science and medicine.

Throughout the years, Dr. Thomas overcame barriers that placed him on the path he is on today.

Before he was “Kevin Thomas the cardiologist,” he was just a boy with a love for basketball growing up in the city of Fort Washington, Md.