Category: Staff and Faculty Spotlights

Faculty Spotlight: Marisa D’Silva, MD

Dr. Marisa D’Silva is yet another member of our general internal medicine faculty who’s also a talented musician and member of the Duke Medicine Orchestra. Read on to learn about her 18 years at Duke as a clinician-educator, both for the VA PRIME and the DOC clinic. We are fortunate to have Dr. D’Silva and her …

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Faculty Spotlight: George Cheely, MD, MBA

This week we are grateful to catch Dr. George Cheely to share his story. Dr. Cheely is a former Duke medicine resident and now faculty. He tells about his different roles in hospital medicine and as the “Medical Director of Care Redesign” — these keep him connected as a clinician-educator and as an expert in medical systems at …

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Faculty Spotlight: Matthew Maciejewski, PhD

This week’s Spotlight is about Matthew Maciejewski, PhD, a health economist and health services researcher. Eight years ago Dr. Maciejewski came from the west coast, Seattle, Washington, to North Carolina. He has a very lengthy list of publications and yet tells us about papers by other authors, landmarks about internal validity of observational studies. Read how he …

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Faculty Spotlight: Jonathan Lovins, MD, MCCi

Our spotlight this week focuses on Dr. Jon Lovins, a hospitalist and medical informaticist. Jon recently completed the Duke graduate program, Master of Management in Clinical Informatics (MCCi). This program is about the merger of data science and management within health systems. For our interview he tells us about hospital medicine and informatics, his family, music, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Faculty Spotlight: Corrine Voils, PhD

For this week’s faculty spotlight, we talk to Corrine Voils, PhD, a faculty member of DGIM since completing her fellowship in 2004. In this interview, Voils talks about leading faculty development efforts and about a planning grant that evaluates an IT platform for weight loss management. Did you know she’s from Texas and “grew up in the desert”? …

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Staff spotlight: Harriett Ware

For this week’s spotlight we present a member of our administrative staff, Harriett Ware. While she may be fairly new to GIM, she’s not new to Duke. When you read about her you will believe this is someone you want to know, both for her responsibilities to the Division Chief and for her passions for “shopping, …

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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 …

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