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Voils Awarded Grant to Examine Incentives for Self-Monitoring and Weight Loss
Congratulations to Corrine Voils, PhD, who, along with collaborators William Yancy, MD, Jennifer Gierisch, PhD, and Ryan Shaw, PhD, RN (Duke School of Nursing), was recently awarded an R34 planning grant. Voils’ grant, “Incentivizing behavior change skills to promote weight loss,” will examine how financial incentives influence patients’ dietary self-monitoring and weight loss. Researchers will …
Trent Center Offering Responsible Conduct of Research Course
The Trent Semans Center for Health Education is offering a five-week course on responsible conduct of research (RCR) this fall. The deadline for registration is August 14. This course, which fulfills the requirements for RCR education will take place Wednesdays from 7 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. starting August 26. Sessions begin with a lecture in …
Zipkin Thanks Faculty for Teaching Residents
Daniella Zipkin, MD, associate program director for Ambulatory Care, offered this note of thanks for the division faculty who taught residents within Duke clinics this year, as well as an update of faculty and attendings within this setting. We would like to take a moment to acknowledge our division faculty who have brought their skill …
Bosworth Gives Workshops on Implementation and Dissemination in Singapore
Hayden Bosworth, PhD, recently traveled to Singapore, where he led five workshops on implementation and dissemination in Duke-NUS graduate medical school. Bosworth’s workshops, which were held from July 13 to 16, attracted more than 150 participants from local universities and hospitals, government health-care agencies, and other institutions. The workshops provided an overview of conceptual frameworks, …
Faculty Spotlight: David Edelman, MD
For this week’s faculty spotlight, we talk to David Edelman, MD, a 21-year veteran of the division of General Internal Medicine. In this interview, Edelman talks about health systems interventions to improve chronic diseases, why successful interventions for veterans and other specific populations don’t always translate to the general public, and his efforts to expand …
Boulware Hosting First CTSA Virtual Town Hall Meeting on July 20
Division Chief Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH will host the first in a series of quarterly Town Hall meetings to answer questions about the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) from noon to 1 p.m. on Monday, July 20. The CTSA is the NIH’s largest single investment in biomedical research. The NIH gives these awards to …
Faculty Spotlight: Nrupen Bhavsar, PhD
Nrupen Bhavsar, PhD, is the subject of this week’s faculty spotlight. In this interview, Bhavsar talks about understanding and improving chronic disease at the population level, his work in the QDACT team, and a recent Cancer article that examined how the results of major clinical trial affected subsequent treatment for elderly women with breast cancer. You’re …
GIM Faculty: Have You Updated Your Bios and Scholars@Duke Pages?
The division is conducting its annual updates of its faculty. All GIM faculty should have received an email containing a link to update their Duke CV, demographic information, and professional photo. If you have not done so already, please complete this information by Monday, July 27. And, if you haven’t done so within the past …
Next Cycle in SoM Bridge Funding Program Available (due August 15)
The School of Medicine (SoM) has announced the next cycle in its Bridge Funding Program, which provides funding for SoM investigators who have had a lapse in R01 or P01-level support. The Dean’s Office will supply up to up to $100,000 per lapsed R01 grant or up to $200,000 per lapsed P01 grant. Applications are …
AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Clinical Decision Support Learning Network (due November 13)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a funding opportunity announcement to create a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Learning Network (“PCOR CDS Learning Network”). This Learning Network will engage stakeholders in the use of CDS to disseminate and to implement PCOR findings. Letters of intent are due August 28; …
