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Faculty Spotlight: Marisa D’Silva, MD
Dr. Marisa D’Silva is yet another member of our general internal medicine faculty who’s also a talented musician and member of the Duke Medicine Orchestra. Read on to learn about her 18 years at Duke as a clinician-educator, both for the VA PRIME and the DOC clinic. We are fortunate to have Dr. D’Silva and her …
Recent GIM Publications
Congratulations to the authors! The list below provides the full citations and links to PubMed. If you want to know more about our researchers, their interests and their methodologies, you can find that information from our GIM web pages. And, it’s possible to check our Publications query that updates often. Here are the latest publications from …
Faculty Spotlight: George Cheely, MD, MBA
This week we are grateful to catch Dr. George Cheely to share his story. Dr. Cheely is a former Duke medicine resident and now faculty. He tells about his different roles in hospital medicine and as the “Medical Director of Care Redesign” — these keep him connected as a clinician-educator and as an expert in medical systems at …
Faculty Spotlight: Matthew Maciejewski, PhD
This week’s Spotlight is about Matthew Maciejewski, PhD, a health economist and health services researcher. Eight years ago Dr. Maciejewski came from the west coast, Seattle, Washington, to North Carolina. He has a very lengthy list of publications and yet tells us about papers by other authors, landmarks about internal validity of observational studies. Read how he …
Faculty Spotlight: Jonathan Lovins, MD, MCCi
Our spotlight this week focuses on Dr. Jon Lovins, a hospitalist and medical informaticist. Jon recently completed the Duke graduate program, Master of Management in Clinical Informatics (MCCi). This program is about the merger of data science and management within health systems. For our interview he tells us about hospital medicine and informatics, his family, music, …
Altmetrics – “Impact as a Donut”
No doubt you’ve noticed these rainbow donuts. “66” was the latest value for the recent JAMA systematic review on breast cancer screenings with members of GIM as co-authors (last viewed 11/5/15). This post provides the essentials about “altmetrics” and about Duke’s effort to keep up with our publications.
Singapore – Greenblatt and Yanamadala
In August 2015 we wrote about Larry Greenblatt, MD, a clinician-educator in GIM, and Mamata Yanamadala, MBBS, from Duke Geriatrics, their work in Singapore for Duke-NUS. Larry recently forwarded a few photos from Singapore, noting that the country is very diverse in culture, ethnicity, and religion. In this highlight for the DGIM Blog, Larry tells us more about …
Schulman co-authors JAMA Viewpoint 10-29-15
Kevin Schulman, MD, is a renowned clinical researcher and faculty member of Duke general internal medicine. This week’s issue of JAMA shows Dr. Schulman as co-author of a Viewpoint article titled “Options to Promote Competitive Generics Markets in the United States.” His colleagues are faculty from Brown University and Harvard Medical School. Their paper is timely, not …