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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. 

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. 

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. 

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).

The following faculty received funding awards in September 2017.

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.

It is no small matter that terminally ill African-Americans patients enroll in hospice less often than white patients. Lower participation contributes to health disparities between the races.

African-American patients are less likely than white patients to have their pain adequately diagnosed and treated, for one. They less often obtain medicine to treat pain and are less satisfied with communication and overall care from health providers.

When geriatrician Kimberly Johnson, MD, MHS, first observed these differences as a resident in the 1990s, she understood immediately that physicians needed to address them. So she did.

The School of Medicine invites faculty to attend a town-hall style panel discussion on Physician-Scientist Honor Societies: Association of American Physicians (AAP) and The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).