2023-2024 SEEDS Scholarly Projects Announced
A highlight of the SEEDS program each year is the projects that are selected for publication or presentation. The Department of Medicine is proud to announce our 2023-2024 project winners, Drs. Willard Applefeld, Ann Cameron Barr, Dan Loriaux, Emily Sanders, Ilia Shadrin, and Rachel V. White. These projects offer innovative measures that will further strengthen our curriculum.
Duke Medicine Partners with NCCU on Mentored Internship Program
The Department of Medicine and the division of Nephrology are partnering with historically Black college and university (HBCU) North Carolina Central University (NCCU) College of Health and Sciences in a new program to give talented students an opportunity to develop mentor relationships and research/clinical exposure to fortify their early career development.
Wilder, Zaas, Okeke Awarded Coalition Funds to Advance Community Health Care Equity
A coalition of health care funders working to improve trust in health care has awarded grants to Department of Medicine faculty members, Julius Wilder, MD, PhD, and Aimee Zaas, MD and Lance Okeke, MD, to advance local health equity in the Durham, N.C. community.
Women’s Heart Disease Expert Gulati is Aug. 4 Greenfield Speaker
Preventative cardiologist and women’s heart disease expert Martha Gulati, MD, MS, will deliver the Friday, August, 4 Joseph C.
Growing Visual Arts and Humanities Curriculum Finds a Home with Duke Medicine Residents
Medical schools across the country are increasingly incorporating visual arts and humanities programming into their curricula to address a variety of issues and skill sets that are relevant to clinical practice. The Department of Medicine has done so well with its visual arts and humanities curriculum for residents that it is now in its third year—and growing.
Dr. Pignone Named Inaugural Vice Chair for Quality and Innovation
Michael Pignone, MD, MPH, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, will join the Duke Department of Medicine as the inaugural vice chair for quality and innovation, and serve as faculty within the Division of General Internal Medicine effective November 1.
Moving Medicine Forward: Dr. Shariff Receives Community Cancer Centers Innovators Award
Afreen Shariff, MD, assistant professor in the division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, has been selected by the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) as a 2023 Innovator Award recipient for her work on the effectiveness of electronic consults for immune-related endocrine toxicities.
Researchers Awarded $7.5 Million for Prevention of Bone Fracture Study
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Duke, UNC, Harvard, Brown and the American Health Care Association Long-term Care Data Collaboratory have been awarded $7.5 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to fund a study on models of post-acute care in complex older adults with fractures. The study is one of the largest comparative effectiveness trials undertaken in skilled nursing facilities.
