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The Advance Care Planning (ACP) initiative at the DOC is off to a great start.  Patients have already started coming to ACP dedicated appointments at the DOC to meet with our new patient navigators to get started on “Care Planning,” the patient-centered process of speaking with loved ones and the medical team about the care a patient would like to receive if unable to speak for him/herself.  

Duke Institute for Health Innovation is excited to announce the next emerging ideas and innovation funding cycle for demonstration pilots. Deadline for submission is Oct. 6, 2017.

Congratulations to Myles Wolf, MD, M.Med.Sc., chief of the Division of Nephrology, who was newly elected to the Council of the International Society of Nephrology.

Nephrologist Susan Gurley MD, PhD, is an eyewitness to the toll diabetes-related kidney disease takes on patients. As diabetic kidney disease becomes more common worldwide, the clinician-scientist wants to solve more biological mysteries surrounding how the damage starts and progresses. New treatment targets could follow.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Aug. 14, 2017.

Erica Malkasian will join the Department of Medicine as Director of Research Administration, effective October 1, announced Cathy Wood, vice chair for administration.

The Department of Medicine has produced an alumni report with highlights from our faculty and current and recent trainees. Building on Tradition is in the mail now to our former trainees.

John Paul Shoup, MD, senior assistant resident in the combined Medicine-Pediatrics residency training program, has been selected to serve as the Durham VA Medical Center chief resident for quality improvement and patient safety for 2018-19.

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Jenny Van Kirk, MD, finished up her internal medicine residency at Duke and joined the DGIM faculty this July as Medical Instru