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The Duke CTSI Community Engagement Population Health Improvement Awards program will provide approximately $200,000 for direct costs to support pilot awards that can be used to either a) develop new community-research partnerships or b) foment already existing community and research partnerships that aim to develop and test effective solutions to improve community and population health. Deadline is Feb. 22, 2018.

The Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative is accepting applications for the Duke Incubation Fund, to support early-stage ideas based on Duke intellectual property with the potential to go to market and impact society. Deadline for applications is Jan. 8, 2018.

On Jan. 8, the Department of Medicine and Department of Surgery will begin a 10-week competition to see which department can move the most in 2018.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Jan. 2, 2018.

We are proud to announce 4 faculty members have been promoted to Assistant Professor this month! 

A look back at the top 10 most clicked DGIM news stories of 2017! 

In clinic, cardiologist Sudarshan Rajagopal, MD, PhD, has no means to cure most patients with pulmonary hypertension, not the narrowing of blood vessels in their lungs, not damage done to their hearts.

The physician-scientist can prescribe medicines that extend the lives of many patients, but the precious gains can come with unwelcome costs.

“All these drugs help open blood vessels in the lungs and help treat heart failure. But they can have horrible side effects,” Rajagopal says, including nausea, diarrhea, weight loss and other side effects.

But help may come from complex pharmacology studies that Rajagopal first encountered at Duke in the laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Robert Lefkowitz, MD.

The MedicineNews blog continues to be the primary way that we feature the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, trainees and staff of the Duke Department of Medicine.

In 2017, we shared 412 news stories, including posts about faculty and trainee awards and honors, research profiles and 33 funding opportunities, as well as news and events from our training programs. Keep reading for this year's highlights. 

After 12 years as chief of the Division of Geriatrics, Kenneth Schmader, MD, has elected to step down from this leadership role on June 30, 2018, Interim Chair Joseph Rogers, MD, announced this week.

GIM Associate Professor, Dr. Rowena Dolor, is a recipient of a large grant from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).