Martha Adams

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New Certificate Program in Practice-Based Research Methods

A new opportunity for faculty to enroll in a Certificate Program in Practice-Based Research Methods has been developed by the 8 AHRQ-funded PBRN Centers of Excellence in Practice-Based Research and Learning (https://pbrn.ahrq.gov/pbrn-profiles/p30-centers).  The training program seeks to develop a new generation of PBRN investigators and is designed for new or experienced investigators who want to …

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Adams leads AMIA webinar

Me: aren’t you retired? Dr. Adams: Yes, but… Martha Adams, MD, tells us she’s having too much fun these days doing just what she wants to do – this past week, August 26, 2015, it was leading a webinar for AMIA, the American Medical Informatics Association. In AMIA she is Chair of the Working Group Steering Committee, a …

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Duke Palliative Care, Johnson in NYT 8.21.2015

The New York Times recently cited Dr. Kimberly Johnson, a Duke geriatrician and member of the Duke Palliative Care Program. The article, “A Racial Gap in Attitudes Toward Hospice Care”, published August 21, 2015, begins with the illness of sickle cell disease and a federal statistic that “nearly half of white Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in hospice …

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Duke-NUS benefits from Greenblatt’s Teaching

Larry Greenblatt, MD, a clinician-educator in GIM, along with Mamata Yanamadala, MBBS, from Duke Geriatrics, returned last week after 7 days providing instruction in teaching skills for faculty in Singapore for Duke-NUS. Their program is broad and intense. At it’s core they follow the Stanford Clinical Teaching Workshop and the model of the “One Minute …

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Van Houtven speaker for VA Summit on TBI

Courtney Van Houtven, PhD, a GIM health services researcher with interests in aging and economics, was honored to be an invited speaker for the Department of Veteran’s Affairs Traumatic Brain Injury State-of-the Art Research Summit, August 24-25, 2015. Her topic was “Caregivers of Veterans with TBI: Economic Impacts”. Secretary McDonald and the VA Office of Research …

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Chudgar honored with Practice Course Professionalism Award

Three times for this one. Saumil Chudgar, MD, MS, Duke hospitalist and director of undergraduate medical education for the Department of Medicine, just received recognition from the medical students, again from the second years in the Practice Course, recognizing those who demonstrate exceptional professional behavior in the clinical setting. And, three times he’s received the Duke Medicine Golden Apple Award …

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Curtis to give Duke Informatics Research Seminar

Many within general internal medicine find themselves in a multidisciplinary world, especially evaluating large data sets and applying informatics principles. Dr. Lesley Curtis, a health services researcher in the DCRI, focuses on how to make optimal use of electronic health data to answer important questions and inform clinical practice. Her upcoming presentation to the Duke …

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Fitness is on our mind

Fitness is on our mind. Is it on yours? Plan to join the Stead Tread and the 2015 Triangle Heart Walk, both coming up in September! The invitations are open. Event Details Duke Stead Tread 5K Fun Run Saturday, September 12 Registration 8:45 a.m., Race 10:00 a.m. American Tobacco Trail, at Solite Park on Fayetteville Road …

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Annals of Internal Medicine Publication

Dedert EA, McDuffie JR, Stein R, McNiel JM, Kosinski AS, Freiermuth CE, Hemminger A,Williams JW Jr. Ann Intern Med. 4 August 2015, 163(3):205-214 doi:10.7326/M15-0285 [PubMed] Congratulations to Dr. John Williams and his team for this publication in the Annals of Internal Medicine. These authors reflect expertise from the Evidence-based Synthesis Program Center (ESP) in the Durham VA where Dr. …

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Recent GIM Publications

Summer 2015 Congratulations to the authors of these papers appearing June-August 2015. 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 …

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