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Closing in on the month of September! Lots of fun at the intern retreat (thanks Dr.

Congratulations to three General Internal Medicine faculty who received promotions to Asissiatnt Professor effective August 1, 2022. 

Genevieve Embree, MD, MPH, works at the Durham VA Medical Center and is the Deputy Chief for the Office of

The series kicks off October 25, 2:00-4:30pm. Sessions will continue approximately monthly.

After many years of service as clinical core director at the Duke Center for AIDS Research, John Bartlett, MD, professor in the division of Infectious Diseases and the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi, Tanzania, is passing the baton to Thuy Le, MD, D. Phil, associate professor in the division of Infectious Diseases, and Dorothy Dow, MD, MSc, associate professor in Pediatrics. Le and Dow will lead the clinical core as co-directors.

At the beginning of his senior year in college as a computer science major, Sandeep Dave, MD, MS, wanted a career in artificial intelligence (AI). By the end of the year, after researching and writing about AI for his thesis, Dave decided to change course. “I came away very unhappy at what passed for artificial intelligence,” says Dave, a professor of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy. “Computers playing chess is one thing, but being able to model language and reasoning—those things still remain out of reach for even the state-of-the-art technologies today. That made me think of human mechanisms, human physiology, and the wonder that underlies it.”

From the Director

Big week this week! We have the Intern Retreat on Thursday, the ITE continues and our SARs are racking up in the interviews!

Congratulations to Marat Fudim, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine in Cardiology at Duke for his selection as a 2022 recipient of a Doris Duke Chari

A Duke Clinical Leadership Program (DCLP) cohort has taken a deep dive into the culture at Duke Health and come up with several recommendations for substantive changes that it says are essential to the organization’s health moving forward.  

In hindsight, a moment that seems insignificant as it’s happening can prove to be the turning point.