Category: Staff and Faculty Spotlights

New Faculty Spotlight: John Yeatts, MD, MPH

Meet John Yeatts, MD, MPH, a medical instructor and hospitalist at Duke University Hospital. In July we welcomed Dr. Yeatts into our GIM faculty. His primary interests are health care finance, value based care, population healthcare, and developing as a physician executive. Prior to medical school, Dr. Yeatts worked as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in London and …

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New Faculty Spotlight: Dana Clifton, MD

In June, Dana Clifton, M.D. completed her combined Duke Medicine and Pediatrics residency and now launches her career in Hospital Medicine within Duke University Hospital. “I stayed at Duke because of the incredible faculty in the hospital medicine group,” says Clifton. “They are an impressive group of people.” Clifton is interested to be an academic hospitalist, a clinician educator. One of the main drivers behind …

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New Faculty Spotlight: Adrienne Klement, MD

Dr. Adrienne Klement joined the division earlier this month! She works as a hospitalist and medical instructor at the Durham VA Medical Center. Dr. Klement recently completed her Internal Medicine residency and fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Duke. Her clinical interests include providing comprehensive care to our veteran population as both an internist and …

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Faculty Spotlight: Carol Hammond, PhD

Did you know Dr. Carol Hammond is a “speech language pathologist”? This background, plus a fascination with human anatomy and physiology, led to her career research work on “post-stroke oral pharyngeal dysphagia.” Presently she’s studying mild traumatic brain injury in post-combat veterans and her latest project is looking at goal management training to improve memory …

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Faculty Spotlight: Nilesh Patel, MD, MS

Meet Nilesh Patel, MD, MS, a DUH hospitalist since finishing his residency in 2013 and chief residency just last year. Get to know Dr. Patel through our interview below.  How long have you been at Duke? I am starting in my sixth year at Duke. I did both my residency and Chief Residency here at Duke, and …

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Faculty Spotlight: Clay Musser, MD

Meet Clay Musser, MD, a DGIM hospitalist and board certified clinical informatician. Clay is a well-respected leader in the deployment of Duke’s electronic medical record, Maestro Care. He contributes significantly to clinical content architecture across the entire enterprise of Duke. Notice the impact of mentors in his career path.

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Faculty Spotlight: Poonam Sharma, MD

This week’s faculty spotlight shines on Poonam Sharma, MD. In addition to being a hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital, Dr. Sharma is involved in a variety of educational roles, especially with the training program for Physician Assistants (PA).

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Faculty Spotlight: Shenglan Tang, PhD

Shenglan Tang, MD, PhD, is a Duke Professor of Medicine and Research Professor of Global Health. He is the Associate Director for Duke Kunshan University. We learned from his arrival at the Duke Global Health Institute in 2012 that Dr. Tang came to Duke from the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases …

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Faculty Spotlight: Marie Carlson, MD

Clinician, administrator, educator, wife, and mom are just some of her roles. Take a deeper dive in to the life of Marie Carlson, MD. How long have you been at Duke?  I’ve been at Duke since I started medical school in 1996 and stayed on for internal medicine residency, finishing in 2003. I worked for …

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Faculty Spotlight: Virginia Wang, PhD

Last October 2015 we wrote about Dr. Virginia Wang’s new appointment to the editorial board of Health Care Management Review. We thought our readers would be interested to read more about her career as a health services researcher as well as her work-life experiences. Spoiler alert: Dr. Wang was a long distance runner in high school and …

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