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Oh what fun, the DGIM holiday celebration is this week! You don't want to miss it! The celebration will take place this Thursday, December 13th from 4:30-7:30 PM.

Melissa Daubert, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology), has received one of four 2018 Carolinas Collaborative Grant awards to examine the postpartum care received by pregnant women with hypertensive disorders.

A study led by Mitchell Horwitz, MD, professor of medicine (Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy), has found that umbilical cord blood stem cells that are cultured and expanded outside the body before being used for bone marrow transplant in adult blood cancer patients appear safe and restore blood count recovery faster than standard cord blood. The findings advance efforts to improve cord blood use among adults who have been diagnosed with blood cancers. 

The Duke Division of General Internal Medicine journal club met December 4th at the home of GIM Assistant Professor,

Heather Whitson, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (Geriatrics) and ophthalmology, will serve as the next director of the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. Dr. Whitson will succeed Harvey Cohen, MD, the Walter Kempner Professor of Medicine and chair emeritus of the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Nathan Gray's new graphic medicine piece published this week in Topic Magazine's December issue.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Dec. 3, 2018.

In a recent Health Affairs blog post, Drs. Larry Greenblatt and Azalea Kim, urge clinicians and policy makers to develop best practices for assessing early opioid prescribing behaviors.

"We are so proud of our senior residents – every year the match and job market get more and more competitive, and the results speak for themselves. Duke residents are not just outstanding physicians, but outstanding people," said Aimee Zaas, MD, MHS, program director of the Duke Internal Medicine Residency. "We look forward to following your careers with pride."

​Micah A. Luftig, PhD, associate professor of molecular genetics and microbiology and medicine (Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy), has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).