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Dr. Sonya Patel-Nguyen joined our division this past July after completing her combined medicine and pediatrics residency training at UNC Chapel Hill. 

Oh what fun, the DGIM holiday celebration is this week! You don't want to miss it!
The celebration will take place this Thursday, December 13th from 4:30-7:30 PM.

The Voices of Duke Health podcast project, led by Anton Zuiker and Jonathan Bae, MD, has released its first four episodes, including an interview with Yousuf Zafar, MD, associate professor of medicine (Medical Oncology), public policy and population health, on hard conversations with patients and their loved ones.

A study led by Mitchell Horwitz, MD, professor of medicine (Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy), has found that umbilical cord blood stem cells that are cultured and expanded outside the body before being used for bone marrow transplant in adult blood cancer patients appear safe and restore blood count recovery faster than standard cord blood. The findings advance efforts to improve cord blood use among adults who have been diagnosed with blood cancers. 

Melissa Daubert, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology), has received one of four 2018 Carolinas Collaborative Grant awards to examine the postpartum care received by pregnant women with hypertensive disorders.

The Duke Division of General Internal Medicine journal club met December 4th at the home of GIM Assistant Professor,

Heather Whitson, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (Geriatrics) and ophthalmology, will serve as the next director of the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. Dr. Whitson will succeed Harvey Cohen, MD, the Walter Kempner Professor of Medicine and chair emeritus of the Department of Medicine.

Anna Mae Diehl, MD, the Florence McAllister Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology) and professor of molecular genetics and microbiology in Duke University School of Medicine, has won the Beckman Trust Award. 

Dr. Nathan Gray's new graphic medicine piece published this week in Topic Magazine's December issue.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Dec. 3, 2018.