Category: Conferences and Events

Sharing DOC Clinic Success – Bowlby Invited as Speaker

Lynn Bowlby, MD, Medical Director of the DOC, has been invited to speak about the results of this redesign at the Partnership for Patients Education Series on February 24th in Irving, Texas. The series is entitled Reducing Health Disparities: Hospital Success Stories. You may have heard, the Duke Outpatient Clinic (DOC) recently underwent a redesign for improved population health management and …

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Hospital Medicine 2016 – San Diego

Hospital Medicine 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for Hospital Medicine March 6-9, 2016 in San Diego Last updated 2/1/16 Read the list of acceptances from our Duke GIM Hospitalists for this national meeting. Breakout Session Jonathan Bae, MD Reducing Inpatient Mortality: A Standardized Approach to Identify Preventable Deaths” Clinical Vignettes Dennis College, MD A Case of Stiff-person …

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ACP – NC Chapter Scientific Meeting 2016

Feb 26-27, 2016 Grandover Resort, Greensboro, NC Last updated 2/14/16 Click here to register and view the program. These Hospitalists received acceptances for their “Clinical Vignettes”: Mitchell Black, MD and David Ming, MD Structured Evaluation and Feedback to Improve Quality of Medical Student Discharge Summaries Neha Mehta, MD and Adam Wachter, MD A Curious Case of Acute …

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11th Annual Duke Patient Safety Conference

March 10, 2016 at the Durham Convention Center Last updated 3/4/16 Read the list of acceptances by our Duke GIM Hospitalists. Click here to register for this event. You may also want to read about acceptances to other conferences: the ACP-NC Chapter Scientific Meeting in Greensboro, NC, and Hospital Medicine 2016 in San Diego. Jonathan Bae, MD …

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2015 GIM Year in Review

Our Faculty and Staff Spotlights are without a doubt our most viewed stories. But 2015 was an exciting year for Duke GIM news as well! Here are the top 10 news stories — those most viewed this year by our GIM eNews readers:

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Holiday Celebration 2015

Duke GIM celebrated the holiday season on Wednesday, December 9 at the King’s Daughters Inn in Durham. Thank you to everyone who attended the holiday celebration this year with a special thank you to Harriett Ware, Jodi Telander, Nancy Thomasson, and Robin Byrd who all worked so hard to make this celebration possible. Check out …

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Adam Perlman, MD, Speaks at Global Wellness Summit

The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) is an international gathering that brings together leaders and visionaries to positively impact and shape the future of the global wellness industries. The 2015 Summit took place in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 13-15, 2015, at The St. Regis Mexico City under the theme “Building a Well World“.

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SMDM 2015 Theme was “Implementation”

Post submitted by Shelby Reed, PhD Meetings of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) bring together transdisciplinary groups of individuals whose work is devoted to studying medical decisions to improve the health of individuals and populations. Every year’s meeting begins with short courses on Sunday led by international experts in decision modeling, decision theory, …

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Williams Reporting from Austria

The 23rd Cochrane Colloquium in Vienna, Austria, October 3-7, 2015 Posted by John Williams, MD, MHS* The 23rd Cochrane Colloquium was held in Vienna, Austria, October 3-7. It is the premier conference focused on the methods for conducting systematic reviews. As director of the Durham Evidence Synthesis Program (ESP), I attended with the goal of …

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Davis Delivers Keynote for “Race to Quit, NC”

James Davis was a featured speaker October 6th, alongside the Deputy Secretary of Health Services, NC Department of Health & Human Services and the Executive Director of the North Carolina Alliance for Health, for the launching of “Race to Quit, NC,” the official kick-off of a statewide smoking cessation campaign. Davis is a GIM faculty member and Director …

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