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Cameron Wolfe, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases), is Duke Today's Blue Devil of the Week.

The blog for the journal Health Affairs has recognized two papers by current Duke internal medicine residents, Ben Ranard, MD, and Wynn Hunter, MD, MHSc, on its list of top articles for 2016.

Don't forget: The MEDx Biomedical Research Award will provide funds of up to $50,000 for novel pilot projects that investigate a basic biomedical question or for the development of tools or technologies that enable biomedical discovery. The pilot projects must be collaborations between faculty members in the Pratt School of Engineering and the School of Medicine. Application submission deadline is Jan. 19, 2017.

Diego Bohórquez, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Gastroenterology), has been selected as a 2017 TED Fellow.

Don't forget: The Chancellor’s Discovery Program is accepting applications.  This unique program is intended to fuel new opportunities for innovative research projects at Duke Health that are focused on new ideas and discovery. The Discovery Program will fund up to five one-year awards of $75,000 in 2017. The deadline for applications is Jan. 20, 2017.

The following faculty received funding awards in December 2016.

Already the newest systematic review from the Durham VA Evidence Synthesis Program boasts an Altmetrics “attention score” of 140 (as of 1/8/17). Amongst several Duke authors for this publication, two represent DGIM: Dr. Clarissa Diamantidis and senior author, Dr. John Williams.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Jan. 9, 2017.

Jamy Ard, MD, will return to Duke University on Jan. 13, 2017 as the Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee's Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Speaker at Medicine Grand Rounds. Dr. Ard is a professor of medicine and epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest School of Medicine and co-director of the Weight Management Center at Wake Forest Baptist Health. He attended Duke University School of Medicine and completed residency in internal medicine at Duke, serving as chief resident from 2001-2002.

Dr. Ard will present "A patient with obesity walks into your clinic: Designing effective obesity treatments for key populations." Continue reading for more on his research and his time at Duke.

Alyson McGhan-Johnson, MD, is the 2016-17 chief resident for Duke University Hospital. Dr. McGhan-Johnson oversees the internal medicine residents at Duke University Hospital and sees herself as an advocate for the residents and an educator. McGhan-Johnson said one of her goals for the year is to foster the relationship between the chief residents and residents. “I want to be someone they can come to without any concerns or hesitations,” she said.

McGhan-Johnson grew up in Paterson, NJ. She attended Rutgers University-New Brunswick for undergrad and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania for medical school before coming to Duke University for residency. McGhan-Johnson will complete fellowship in gastroenterology at Duke next year.

Learn more about her approach to teaching, her desire to connect with residents one-on-one and her goals for the year.