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The School of Medicine Office for Faculty Development is pleased to announce the 9th annual School of Medicine course on Leadership Development for Researchers. LEADER will be held April 17-19, 2018 at the Hamner Conference Center in RTP. Applications are available now, and are due by December 1.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Oct. 16, 2017.

See what took place during the recent NC Triangle chapter meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine and read about the newest hospitalist to join the division. 

Two DGIM faculty members have been involved in a "Back to Bedside" initiative. Dr. David Simel was guest faculty at this year's symposium; Caputo has been implementing at the Durham VA. 

Dr. Eric Poon has been elected to American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) Fellowship. ACMI is a college of elected fellows who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of biomedical informatics. 

For the last 20 years, Duke Bone Marrow Transplant program patients have been holding annual reunions. The first reunion, held in 1996, was attended by 20 attendees. This year's celebration, held in September, was attended by 400.

Jane Trinh, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and medicine and associate program director of the combined Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program, has been named program director of the Duke Medicine-Pediatrics Residency. 

Dr. David Simel published a case study in "JAMA Diagnostic Test Interpretation", a JAMA series in quiz format showing a patient’s clinical presentation and test result(s).

Duke Health has announced its first Translating Duke Health call for proposals for innovative approaches to supporting immune health and high risk/high impact research in the area of the brain and disease. Deadlines are Nov. 1, 2017, Nov. 30, 2017 and Jan. 15, 2018.

The following faculty received funding awards in September 2017.