Dr. Megan Clowse to Lead Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
Megan E. B. Clowse, MD, MPH, a renowned expert in the field of rheumatology and immunology, will assume the role of division chief for the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, effective November 1.
Mario Family Foundation Awardees Focus on Older Adult Care, Heart Failure Patients, HIV
The Mario Family Foundation Award supports junior investigators in training by annually awarding selected patient-oriented research proposals to fund for one year. This year’s Mario Family Foundation fellow recipients are Judith B. Vick, MD, MPH, General Internal Medicine, Josephine Harrington, MD, Cardiology, and Naseem Alavian, MD, MPH, Infectious Diseases.
Critical Care Medicine Program Achieves Full ACGME Accreditation
The Critical Care Medicine fellowship training program has achieved full accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), further enhancing the Department of Medicine’s (DOM) reputation as a center of excellence in critical care.
Faculty Promotions September 2023
Congratulations to the following faculty members for their recent appointment or promotion in the Department of Medicine.
Mayne Named 2024-2025 VA Chief Resident for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Nicholas Mayne, MD, senior assistant resident in the Duke Internal Medicine (IM) Residency Program, has been selected to serve as the Durham VA Medical Center Chief Resident for Quality and Safety (CRQS) for 2024-25.
Duke Reaches Halfway Mark for Goals-of-Care Conversations with Seriously Ill Patients
More than 10,000 Duke patients die each year. Ideally, all of those patients should have the opportunity to discuss their goals in the last six months of life, a target that Duke University Health System and palliative care leaders set in 2021 as part of the Goal Concordant Care Initiative. Eighteen months later, the system is well on the way toward meeting target, and more than half of all Duke Health patients have a goals-of-care conversation documented in the last six months. It’s a win-win—for patients and providers.
Faculty Development Academy Gets Off to a Strong Start
On September 27, the Department of Medicine (DOM) kicked off the academic year for new members of the
Phillips-Winn Memorial Lecture to Focus on Creating a Culture of Respect
The Duke Department of Medicine (DOM) will host a special Friday, October 20, 2023, Medicine Grand Rounds on St
Leveling the Playing Field: Maria Marquine’s Mission to Advance Latino Health Equity
A bilingual expert in cross-cultural neuropsychology, health disparities, and neurocognitive aging, Maria Marquine, PhD, is giving clinicians across the country the tools they have long needed to identify neurocognitive disorders in the Latino population. She is advancing clinical care for an estimated 40 million native Spanish-speakers across the United States, a critical step toward addressing disparities in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia and promoting health equity.