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Matthew Atkins, MD, is the 2016-17 chief resident for quality improvement and patient safety at the Durham VA Medical Center. In this role, Dr. Atkins studies quality improvement and patient safety and teaches it to Duke internal medicine residents by leading conferences, involving residents in quality improvement projects and working with the residency program’s patient safety quality council. Atkins also works on quality improvement initiatives at the Durham VA. Learn more about Atkins’s work in quality improvement, his role as chief resident and how he came to Duke University.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Feb. 6, 2017.

Recently, a large group led by Linda Kinsinger, MD, DGIM adjunct professor, and senior author, George Jackson, PhD, DGIM Associate Professor, published an Online First in JAMA Internal Medicine — “Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening in the Veterans Health Administration.” 

Meet Amy Corneli, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine. Before coming to Duke General Internal Medicine a year and a half ago, most of her research was conducted outside of the U.S., primarily sub-Saharan Africa but also in the Middle East and Asia. Her main area of expertise has been biomedical HIV Prevention. Get to know more about Dr.Corneli in our interview. 

Join the GIM faculty and resident "meet and greet" breakfast before Medicine Grand Rounds on February 24th!

A new Duke/NC State Translational Research Grant offers $50,000 (half from each institution) for 12 months to fund novel clinical and  translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings. Application Submission Deadline is March 9, 2017.

Whether they are new or returning to the Department of Medicine, we would like to welcome the following individuals who joined us in recent weeks!

Mary E. Klotman, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine, has been named Dean of Duke University School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Jan. 30, 2017.

The sixth annual Department of Medicine Research Retreat 2017 will take place Wed., Feb. 8 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., at the Washington Duke Inn. The annual Medicine Research Retreat is an important strategic planning session for the Department's research mission and activities.