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The Department of Medicine invites faculty to a practical, how-to discussion of the Appointments, Promotions and Tenure (APT) process at Duke, to be held Wed., Oct. 11 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in Duke University Hospital, Room 2002.

 This year DGIM put together a walking team for the Triangle Heart Walk!

We are proud to announce GIM Assistant Professor of Medicine, Keisha Bentley-Edwards, PhD, has received a $2,713,229 grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support a five-year study aimed at investigating the relationship between religion, spirituality and cardiovascular disease risks in African Americans and serve as a catalyst for evidence-based interventions to support positive health outcomes for African Americans.

Hear Duke Internal Medicine Residents talk about why they chose to train at Duke - and what makes it such a welcoming and supportive program.

The School of Medicine is accepting nominations for its Research Staff Appreciation Awards, which recognize staff members who provide exemplary support in the conduct of basic, clinical and translational research projects. Applications are due Oct. 19, 2017.

Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Sept. 25, 2017.

It's that time of year again to get your flu vaccination. Employees required to be vaccinated must be compliant by 12:01 a.m. on November 1, 2017.

The Division of General Internal Medicine hosted a wine and cheese event that included a poster session and time to socialize.

The Division of General Internal Medicine announces the 2nd annual GIM Excellence Award winners.

The photograph of blue, pink and neon-green globes that Christina Barkauskas, MD, keeps on her desk inside the Nanaline Duke Research Building looks like a string of glowing holiday lights. That is, until she decodes it.

Produced with a confocal microscope, the image is evidence of new insight into how some lung tissue repairs itself. It captures type 2 epithelial cells within alveoli functioning like stem or progenitor cells by giving rise to type 1 epithelial cells, which contribute to tissue repair.  

For Dr. Barkauskas, this is not knowledge for knowledge’s sake. It’s data needed to better serve  patients with often-lethal idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.