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New GIM Grants Manager
November 2, 2015, Ginger Robinson will join the Department of Medicine Research Administration as Grants and Contracts Administrator on Team 4 which supports General Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Nephrology.
Faculty Spotlight: Patrick Hemming, MD, MPH
This week’s spotlight focuses on a new member in General Internal Medicine, Dr. Patrick Hemming. Dr. Hemming’s home state is Maryland but he’s finding a niche at Duke that builds on his training as a clinician educator. Read about his unique focus on teaching psycho-social support of patients and about his commitment to parenting 3 …
Packed Attendance for MedEd Conference
[Editorial note: see our earlier announcement about the Consortium for Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (CLIC) 2015. The CLIC is a relatively new movement in medical education that uses continuity as an organizing principle. Click here to see the conference program in detail.] Submitted by Bruce Peyser, MD, co-chair of the Conference October 5, 2015 Day …
Division Welcomes Newest Faculty
General Internal Medicine is pleased to welcome its newest faculty members: Amy Corneli, PhD, Patrick Hemming, MD, and Reed Johnson, PhD. Dr. Corneli joins GIM and the DCRI. She is a social scientist with expertise in bioethics, work that has carried her to conduct research in multiple countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South and …
Staff Spotlight: Dana Tucker
For this week’s spotlight, Dana Tucker who has been working at the Durham VA for 23 years tells us about the past four, now with general internal medicine. She describes her many responsibilities, tells about her family, and poignantly shares the experience of losing several family members last year. Here are the responses to our …
Journal Names Wang to Editorial Board
This week Virginia Wang, PhD, accepted an invitation to be on the editorial board of Health Care Management Review. Dr. Wang is a GIM investigator in Health Services Research & Development. She is the PI of an NIH grant (RO1) through 2018 titled “Cascading Impacts of Bundled Payment on Peritoneal Dialysis Provision & Outcomes.” Her publications …
Dolor Leads Network Infrastructure 5-year Grant
September 1st was Day 1 for Rowena Dolor, MD, MHS, co-PI, along with Li-Tzy Wu, Scd, Rn, MA, both from Duke, heading up a large clinical trials network (CTN) involving 6 partners across the mid-South. Six locations in the mid-South These research sites include Meharry-Vanderbilt, Mid-South Clinical Data Research Network, the Duke Primary Care Research Consortium, UNC NCnet – …
Recap: Wine & Cheese + Posters Event
19 posters displayed, lots of your colleagues present, and lots of chatter. Read all about it… If you came you were able to meet a new hospitalist who’s also the IRB representative for GIM, Neil Stafford, shake hands with a new faculty candidate, Dr. Nia Mitchell, figure out who’s Shelby Reed and who’s Reed Johnson, and by the …
Faculty Spotlight: Lori Orlando, MD, MHS
Dr. Lori Orlando is the subject of this week’s faculty spotlight. Orlando talks about falling into her unique role in Precision Medicine and what it’s like to be an internist for Duke Executive Health. Read more about her passions for the out-of-doors, even horseback riding! How long have you been at Duke? How long have …
Schulman Teaching Healthcare Executive Leaders – Nigeria
Over the next 10 weeks, Kevin Schulman will participate in teaching healthcare leaders in the Healthcare Leadership Academy, a program based in Lagos, Nigeria. The subject is how to excel in governance and provision of quality services. The underlying mission is to help stabilize health systems for this vulnerable population so that Africa can sustain the economic growth …
NIH Announcements
- Implementation of Revisions to the NIH and AHRQ Fellowship Application and Review Process
- Emergency Competitive Revision to Existing NIH Awards (Emergency Supplement - Clinical Trial Optional)
- Notice of Informational Webinar for RFA-AI-23-077, Center of Excellence for Systems Modeling of Infection and Immunity across Biological Scales (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed).
