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Duke University and Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) are pleased to announce a call for proposals for collaborative research pilot projects between faculty based in Durham with those based in Singapore. For each project, up to USD$100,000 will be available to the Duke PI and SGD$100,000 to the Duke-NUS PI. Letters of intent are due by April 7, 2017.

Update: The date has changed for the School of Medicine's annual Spring Faculty Meeting. The faculty meeting will be held Mon., May 8, from 4:45-7:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for March 13, 2017.

Every March since 2013, the American Journal of Kidney Disease (AJKD) blog transforms into the central headquarters for an evidence based, non-commercial, medical education experiment in leveraging the tools of social media, interactivity, and gamification to teach the latest advances and the most important breakthroughs in nephrology.

Joseph Lunyera, MBChB, joined Duke GIM back in November 2016. Learn more about him here! 

The School of Medicine has launched a search for the next Chair of the Department of Medicine. That person will replace Mary Klotman, MD, the current chair and next dean of the Duke School of Medicine.

Five teams from the Department of Medicine have received 2017 Innovation awards from Duke Institute for Health Innovation.

The following faculty received funding awards in February 2017.

The Community Engagement Core of the Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has announced a new, multi-tiered award program, CTSI Population Health Improvement Awards, to engage community and academic partners in collaborative research that promotes novel ideas to improve community and population health. Applications are due by March 29, 2017.

The Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI) has announced that it will support high-potential care delivery innovation projects in the areas of population health and analytics, novel patient interactions, new and team-based models of care, and optimization of patient flow. Among the recipients were 3 projects that included members from Duke GIM!